Administration

Staff

Amy McIntyre
Managing Director
Amy McIntyre has served as the Managing Director for ASLE since October, 2004.  She previously worked with the Monadnock Institute of Nature, Place and Culture and the New England Center for Civic Life at Franklin Pierce University.  She also worked for six years at the Children’s Museum of Portsmouth, NH.  She holds a B.A. from Alma College (MI) and a M.Ed. from University of New Hampshire.  Amy resides in Keene, NH with her husband Bill and her children Nora and Daniel.
E-mail: info@asle.org

Elected Officers (voting)

Rochelle Johnson, College of Idaho
President
Rochelle Johnson grew up in suburban Boston, and she now lives amid sage brush and agricultural fields in southwestern Idaho, where she serves as Associate Professor of English and Environmental Studies at The College of Idaho.  Her research interests include Susan Fenimore Cooper, Henry David Thoreau, and the cultural productions of the nineteenth century that helped shape our environmental understandings.  A long-time ASLE member, she considers ASLE her professional home.
E-Mail: rjohnson@collegeofidaho.edu

Dan Philippon, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Vice President
Daniel J. Philippon is associate professor of English at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, where he teaches courses in environmental literature, history, and ethics. He is the author of Conserving Words: How American Nature Writers Shaped the Environmental Movement (2004), the editor of The Friendship of Nature: A New England Chronicle of Birds and Flowers, by Mabel Osgood Wright (1999), and the co-editor of Coming into Contact: Explorations in Ecocritical Theory and Practice (2006) and The Height of Our Mountains: Nature Writing from Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains and Shenandoah Valley (1998).
E-mail: danp@umn.edu

Karla Armbruster, Webster University
Immediate Past President
Karla Armbruster is associate professor and chair of the English Department at Webster University in St. Louis, MO, where she teaches American literature, interdisciplinary studies, and professional writing.  She also co-chairs the environmental studies program.  Karla's primary research area is ecocriticism and environmental literature, and, with Kathleen R. Wallace, she is editor of Beyond Nature Writing: Expanding the Boundaries of Ecocriticism (Charlottesville: UP of Virginia, 2002).  Most recently, she has become very interested in animal studies and is working on a book about representations of dogs in literature and popular culture.
E-mail: armbruka@webster.edu

Executive Council (voting)

Janine DeBaise, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry
Term: 2007-2009
Janine teaches writing and literature through the Environmental Studies Department at the State University of New York (SUNY) College of Environmental Science and Forestry, located in upstate New York.  She writes poetry and creative non-fiction. 
E-mail: jdebaise@gmail.com

Tom Hillard, Boise State University
Term: 2008-2010
Tom J. Hillard is an Assistant Professor of English at Boise State University, where he teaches courses on early American literature, nature writing, western American literature, and the literary Gothic.  He is also Coeditor of the Boise State University Western Writers Series.  His current research focuses on the intersections between fear, nature writing, and the literary Gothic in American literature and culture.  He recently edited and compiled and online teacher’s guide to the book The Future of Nature: Writing on a Human Ecology from Orion Magazine, edited by Barry Lopez (Milkweed Editions 2007).  From 2005-2007, he served as one of ASLE’s Graduate Student Liaisons.
E-mail: thomashillard@boisestate.edu

Richard Kerridge, Bath Spa University (UK)
Term: 2006-2008
Richard Kerridge is a professor in the School of English and Creative Studies at Bath Spa University in Bath, UK.  Richard received the BBC Wildlife Award for Nature Writing in 1990 and 1991, and has been engaged in research into ecocriticism and writing and environmentalism for more than ten years.  From 1998 to 2004, he served as Chair of the new UK branch of ASLE.  Two of his ecocritical essays were anthologized in The Green Studies Reader, edited by Laurence Coupe (Routledge, 2000). He is on the editorial board of the University Press of Virginia ecocriticism series Under the Sign of Nature.  He holds a BA and MA from the University of Cambridge, and PGCE from the University of Sussex. 
E-mail: r.kerridge@bathspa.ac.uk

Gretchen Legler, University of Maine Farmington
Term: 2008-2010
Gretchen Legler is Professor in the BFA Program in Creative Writing at the University of Maine Farmington. Her nonfiction about the natural world includes: All the Powerful Invisible Things (1995 Seal Press) and On the Ice (2005 Milkweed Editions).
E-mail: gretchen.legler@maine.edu

Sheryl St. Germain, Chatham University
Term: 2006-2008
A native of New Orleans, Sheryl St. Germain has taught creative writing at The University of Texas at Dallas, The University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Knox College and Iowa State University. She currently directs the MFA program in Creative Writing at Chatham University where she also teaches poetry and creative nonfiction.  Her books include Going Home, The Mask of Medusa, Making Bread at Midnight, How Heavy the Breath of God, and The Journals of Scheherazade. She has also published a book of translations of the Cajun poet Jean Arceneaux, Je Suis Cadien.  A book of lyric essays, Swamp Songs: the Making of an Unruly Woman, was published in 2003 by The University of Utah Press. Her most recent book is Let it Be a Dark Roux: New and Selected Poems, published by Autumn House Press in 2007.
E-mail: sstgermain@chatham.edu

Jim Warren, Washington and Lee University
Term: 2007-2009
Jim Warren was born in Texas, grew up in Alabama, and now lives in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia.  He has been teaching at Washington and Lee University since 1984.  His research interests focus mainly on 19c American literature, but recently he has been working on Mary Austin's poetry and Barry Lopez's essays and short stories.  He is married to Julianne Lutz Warren and has two daughters, Sylvia and Eline, both in college.
E-mail: warrenj@wlu.edu

Voting Coordinators and Officers

Paul Bogard, Northland College 
Graduate Student Liaison (senior)
Paul Bogard earned his PhD in Literature and Environment at the University of Nevada, Reno in August of 2007.  He is now visiting assistant professor of English at Northland College in Ashland, Wisconsin, teaching courses in American Literature, Nature Writers, and Environmental History. In Spring of 2008 he will teach “Acquainted with the Night,” a month-long interdisciplinary literature course focused on night. His first book, Let There Be Night: Testimony on Behalf of the Dark, is forthcoming from the University of Nevada Press in September of 2008.
E-mail: pbogard@northland.edu

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Nonvoting Coordinators and Officers

Wes Berry, Western Kentucky University  
International Liaison
Wes Berry teaches American literature at Western Kentucky University, a few hollers away from Mammoth Cave National Park.  In the spring of 2008, he will teach at Chongqing Technology and Business University in southwestern China.  His scholarly interests include the literature of the U.S. South and the nexus of the following subjects: agriculture, toxicity, religion, food, technology, and environmental education.  He loves eating new foods, hiking, cutting and splitting wood, and repairing his 100-year-old house.
wes.berry@wku.edu

Michael Branch, University of Nevada, Reno
Book Review Editor, ISLE
Mike is a professor of American Literature and Director of Graduate Studies at the University of Nevada, Reno.  He teaches American environmental literature, 19th century American literature, and colonial American literature. Publications include Reading the roots: American nature writing before Walden (Editor), University of Georgetown Press 2004; The ISLE reader: Ecocriticism, 1993-2003, (Co-editor with Scott Slovic), University of Georgia Press 2003;  and John Muir's last journey: South to the Amazon and East to Africa; Unpublished journals and selected correspondence. (Editor), Island Press/Shearwater Books 2001. He received his BA from the College of William and Mary, and his MA and PhD from the University of Virginia.
mbranch@unr.edu

Donelle Dreese, Northern Kentucky University
Professional Liaison Coordinator
Donelle Dreese is an Assistant Professor of English at Northern Kentucky University.  She teaches American Literatures, Multicultural Literatures, Environmental Literatures, Ecofeminism, and Poetry Writing.     
E-mail: dreesed1@nku.edu

Mark Long, Keene State College
Graduate Student Mentoring Program Coordinator
Mark is associate professor of English and American Studies, at the University System of New Hampshire's Keene State College. He has published widely on American literature, poetry, and environmental literature. In addition to his work as the Coordinator of the Mentoring Program, Mark is an associate editor for the English studies journal Pedagogy, and co-founder and co-coordinator of the Claderwood Insitute on the Teaching of Writing at Keene State. His forthcoming book, Teaching North American Environmental Literature, will appear this year from the Modern Language Association of America.
E-Mail: mlong@keene.edu

Tom Lynch, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
Awards Coordinator
Tom Lynch is an assistant professer at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, where he teaches American literature, ecocriticism, and the literature of place. His book Xerophilia: Ecocritical Explorations in Southwestern Literature is forthcoming from Texas Tech University Press. He is currently at work on a book titled Outback/Out West, an ecocritical comparative study of the literature of the Australian Outback and the American West as seen through the lenses of postcolonial and bioregional theory. He is also co-editing two scholarly anthologies: the first, co-edited with Susan Maher, is on Loren Eiseley, and the second, with Cheryll Glotfelty and Karla Armbruster, is on bioregional literary criticism.
E-mail: tlynch2@unl.edu

Kathryn Miles, Unity College
ASLE News Editor
Kathryn Miles is Associate Professor of English at Unity College, where she also directs the Environmental Writing program.  A journalist by training, she has written for popular and scholarly publications including Northern Sky News, Reconstruction, World Environments, and Women Writers.  She also authors a monthly column called "Backcountry Bistro" for a regional outdoors journal. When she's not teaching at Unity or editing ASLE News, you can usually find her hiking or skijoring in the hills of Maine with her husband, Greg, and husky-jindo mix, Ari.
E-mail: kmiles@unity.edu

Levita D. Mondie-Sapp, The Maret School
Diversity Co-Coordinator
E-mail: Lmondiesapp@maret.org

Scott Slovic, University of Nevada, Reno
ISLE Editor
Scott is Professor of English at the University of Nevada, Reno.  His specializes in American literature, comparative literature, environmental literature, and ecocriticism.  His publications include What's Nature Worth? Narrative Expressions of Environmental Values (coedited with Terre Satterfield). University of Utah Press, 2004; The ISLE Reader: Ecocriticism, 1993-2003 (coedited with Michael P. Branch), University of Georgia Press, 2003;  Getting Over the Color Green: Contemporary Environmental Literature of the Southwest. University of Arizona Press, 2001.  He received a BA from Stanford, and an MA and PhD from Brown.  Scott is very active in the international environmental literature community and has helped spread ASLE’s mission to many different countries.
E-mail: slovic@unr.edu

H. Lewis Ulman, The Ohio State University
Online Bibliography Coordinator
H. Lewis Ulman is an associate professor of English at The Ohio State University, where he teaches courses in digital media, literature and environment studies, and rhetorical theory. His current research focuses on a comparative study of the representation of landscape across various media. Since 2001, he has served as the coordinator of the ASLE Online Bibliography, and he regularly contributes photographs to the ASLE News.
E-mail: ulman.1@osu.edu

Angela Waldie, University of Calgary
Graduate Student Liaison (junior)
Angela Waldie is a PhD Candidate in English at the University of Calgary. She has been a member of ASLE since the 2003 Conference in Boston, and has come to regard ASLE as her academic home. Raised in Creston, British Columbia, and having attended the University of Victoria, the University of British Columbia, Utah State University, and the University of Calgary, she has become increasingly interested in exploring how literature can inform our awareness of place. Angela’s research interests include western Canadian and American literature, ecopoetics, bioregionalism, species extinction, and literary ornithology. When not reading, writing, and teaching, she can be found gardening, weaving, salsa dancing, practicing yoga, swimming in mountain lakes, and hiking in the Rockies and Purcells.
E-mail: arwaldie@ucalgary.ca

Kathleen Wallace, The Ohio State University
Executive Secretary
Kathy Wallace grew up in northeast Wisconsin and lives in Columbus, Ohio, where she tries to learn more about the flora and fauna of central Ohio by volunteering with the Battelle-Darby Creek MetroPark. She, her husband, and three-year-old son are getting their hands dirty with a community garden this year. Kathy is interested in multicultural representations of environment (both built and natural) and sense of place and nature in poetry and literary nonfiction. Her day job is assistant dean of the Graduate School at The Ohio State University.
E-mail: wallace.150@osu.edu

Priscilla Solis Ybarra, Texas Tech University
Diversity Co-Coordinator
E-mail: priscilla.ybarra@ttu.edu

Advisory Board (Non-Voting) 

Rick Bass, Troy, Montana
Michael P. Branch, University of Nevada, Reno
Paul T. Bryant, Radford University
Lawrence Buell, Harvard University
SueEllen Campbell, Colorado State University
Terrell Dixon, University of Houston
John Elder, Middlebury College
Cheryll Glotfelty, University of Nevada, Reno
Harold Fromm, University of Arizona
William Howarth, Princeton University
Annette Kolodny, University of Arizona (Retired)
Michael Kowalewski, Carleton College
Glen A. Love, University of Oregon
Thomas J. Lyon, Utah State University
Leo Marx, MIT, Emeritus
Carolyn Merchant, University of California, Berkeley
David Robertson, University of California, Davis
Scott Slovic, University of Nevada, Reno
Barton Levi St. Armand, Brown University
Louise Westling, University of Oregon
Ann Zwinger, Colorado College