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 (NH).  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 the 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)

Annie Merrill Ingram, Davidson College
President
Annie Merrill Ingram is the Thomson Professor of Environmental Studies and Professor of English at Davidson College, where she teaches courses in American literature, environmental literature, and interdisciplinary environmental studies.  Her research interests and other publications focus on nineteenth-century American literatures and material culture, twentieth-century environmental literature, ecocomposition, and contemporary environmental justice literature.  Along with Ian Marshall, Dan Philippon, and Adam Sweeting, she co-edited Coming Into Contact: Explorations in Ecocritical Theory and Practice (Georgia, 2007).  She is committed to experiential pedagogies and has incorporated community-based projects and wilderness leadership training into her courses.
E-mail: aningram@davidson.edu

 Ursula Heise, Stanford University
 Vice President
Ursula K. Heise is Professor of English and Director of the Program in Modern Thought & Literature at Stanford University. She is also affiliated with the Woods Institute for the Environment and the Program in Science, Technology & Society. Her major academic interests focus on environmental culture, literature and art in the Americas, Western Europe and Japan, and on theories of modernization, postmodernization and globalization. Other areas of interest include media theory, literature and science, science fiction, and narrative theory. Her book Chronoschisms: Time, Narrative, and Postmodernism appeared from Cambridge University Press in 1997, and Sense of Place and Sense of Planet: The Environmental Imagination of the Global from Oxford University Press in 2008. Nach der Natur: Das Artensterben und die moderne Kultur (After Nature: Species Extinction and Modern Culture) will appear with the German publisher Suhrkamp in 2010. She is also working on a book provisionally entitled The Avantgarde and the Forms of Nature.
E-mail: uheise@stanford.edu

Dan Philippon, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Immediate Past 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

Executive Council (voting)

Chia-ju Chang, Brooklyn College
Term: 2009-2011
Chia-ju Chang received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Rutgers University. She has taught at several universities including the University of Florida at Gainesville, Trinity University, San Antonio, and Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Virginia.  Her research interests include contemporary Chinese culture and environment, comparative studies on animal literature and film, ecofeminism and Buddhist environmental ethics.  She has published a number of articles in both English and Chinese including a book chapter, ‘Putting Back the Animals: Woman-Animal Meme in Contemporary Taiwanese Ecofeminist Imagination” in Chinese Ecocinema (forthcoming, Hong Kong University Press, 2009), and an article, "Kekexili through the Lens of 'Animal Advocacy' Criticism" (forthcoming, Journal of Jiangsu University).
Email: chiajuc@gmail.com

 Greta Gaard, University of Wisconsin-River Falls
Term: 2010-2012
An Associate Professor of English, Greta Gaard teaches critical thinking and writing about environmental literature, the politics of food, interspecies justice and environmental health through such courses as Expository Writing, Business Writing, Environmental Rhetoric, Gender Studies, and the Literature of Environmental Justice. She is author of The Nature of Home (Arizona, 2007) and Ecological Politics: Ecofeminists and the Greens (Temple, 1998), editor of Ecofeminism: Women, Animals, Nature (Temple, 1993), and co-editor of Ecofeminist Literary Criticism (Illinois, 1998). Her current scholarship focuses on feminist ecocriticism, ecopedagogy, children's environmental literature, and service learning (everything from picking up garbage to ending homelessness).  This photo shows Greta and Jasmine Huang, one of her Ecofeminist Literary Criticism students at Tamkang University, picking up trash on Guan-Yin Mountain as part of our service learning.
Email: greta.gaard@uwrf.edu

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

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

 Cate Mortimer-Sandilands, York University
 Term: 2010-2012
Cate Mortimer-Sandilands is Professor and Canada Research Chair in Sustainability and Culture in the Faculty of Environmental Studies at York University. She is the author of The Good-Natured Feminist: Ecofeminism and the Quest for Democracy (Minnesota, 1999), and co-editor of This Elusive Land: Women and the Canadian Environment (UBC, 2004) and Queer Ecologies: Sex, Nature, Politics, Desire (Indiana, 2010). Her current work concerns the relations between and among landscape, environmental literature, and public life, including an in-progress book on Canadian lesbian author and activist Jane Rule. She also has a particular fondness for boreal orchids.
Email: essandi@yorku.ca

Amy Patrick, Western Illinois University
Term: 2009-2011
Amy Patrick is assistant professor of English at Western Illinois University in Macomb, IL, where she teaches rhetoric, composition, professional writing, and environmental humanities courses. Her research interests include the rhetoric of sustainability and environmental discourse, particularly issues concerning environment, community, and food culture. Her dissertation examined the tradition of apocalyptic and precautionary writing in environmental literature. An essay based on this project appears in Coming into Contact: Explorations in Ecocritical Theory and Practice (2007).
Email: am-patrick@wiu.edu

Voting Coordinators and Officers

Sarah Jaquette Ray, University of Alaska - Southeast
Graduate Student Liaison (senior)
Sarah Jaquette Ray a first-year assistant professor of English at the University of Alaska-Southeast. She began her involvement with ASLE as a member of the Host Committee for ASLE's 2005 conference in Eugene, and since then has, like many of the officers, considered ASLE her intellectual "home." Sarah is originally from Los Angeles, a point of departure from which she has launched a circuitous educational career from Swarthmore College to University of Birmingham (UK) to UT-Austin, before settling into an interdisciplinary doctoral program at UO, where she earned her Ph.D. in 2009.  There, her fields of focus are environmental justice, environmental and New Western history, human and cultural geography, ecofeminism, disability studies, and American studies. Her non-academic fields of focus are Northwest microbrews, food, and trying to not take the incessant rain personally.
E-mail: sjray@uas.alaska.edu

Nonvoting Coordinators and Officers

 Jill Anderson, University of Mississippi
 Graduate Student Liaison (junior)
Born and raised in northern Indiana, Jill E. Anderson earned her BA in American literature and history at Purdue University in 2005 and her MA in 2007 from the University of Mississippi.  She is currently a PhD candidate at Mississippi, working on a dissertation on queer ecology and the literature of the 1960s.  In addition to her interests in queer theory, ecofeminism, and environmental justice, she also studies the Beat Generation and the counterculture, particularly the women Beats, Native American studies, and the influence of food and media in literature.  Her non-academic activities include a healthy balance of kitchen experimentation, gardening in the pots on her apartment's porch, crafting items for Etsy, and lots of exercise.
Email:  jeander1@olemiss.edu

Karla Armbruster, Webster University
Executive Secretary
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

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.
E-mail: 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.
E-mail: 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 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 new book, Teaching North American Environmental Literature, was published in 2009 by 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 was published by 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

Catherine Meeks, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
ASLE News Editor
Catherine Meeks is a Lecturer of English at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, where she teaches undergraduate courses in rhetoric and composition and Western Humanities and explores the Tennessee River. She studied Environmental Writing while earning a Masters of Science in Environmental Studies at the University of Montana-Missoula, and continues to write creative nonfiction. Her current research and writing interests include exploring intersections of race, landscape, agriculture, and foodways, particularly in the American South. Since August of 2008, she has lived at the base of Lookout Mountain with her husband, Alex Quinlan, and dog, Seamus, happily with a hiking trail out the back door.
Email: catherine-meeks@utc.edu

Levita D. Mondie, The Maret School
Diversity Co-Coordinator
E-mail: lmondie@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

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
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 (retired)
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