Book Chapters
"Is American Nature Writing Dead?" The Oxford Handbook of Ecocriticism, ed. Greg Garrard (New York: Oxford University Press, 2014) 391-407.
"U.S. Environmental Literature Before the Twentieth Century." Teaching North American Environmental Literature, ed. Frederick O. Waage, Laird Christensen, and Mark Long (New York: MLA, 2008) 126-38.
"'Academic Air': Teaching The Control of Nature," Coming Into McPhee Country: John McPhee and the Art of Literary Nonfiction, ed. O. Alan Weltzien and Susan N. Maher (Salt Lake City: U of Utah P, 2003) 282-300.
"Gender, Genus, and Genre: Women, Science, and Nature Writing in Early America," Such News of the Land: U.S. Women Nature Writers, ed. Thomas S. Edwards and Elizabeth De Wolff (Hanover, N.H.: UP of New England, 2001) 9-26.
"'Such Pictures and Poems, Inimitable': Nature and Language in Walt Whitman's Specimen Days," Reading the Earth: New Directions in Literature and Environment, ed. Michael P. Branch, Rochelle Johnson, Daniel Patterson, and Scott Slovic (Boise: U of Idaho P, 1998) 179-93.
"Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains and Shenandoah Valley: A Case Study in Southern Nature Writing" (co-authored with Michael P. Branch), The Literature of Nature: An International Sourcebook, ed. Patrick Murphy (London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 1998) 59-63.
Journal Articles
"Kitchens of the Great Anthropocene," Weber: The Contemporary West 34.1 (Fall 2018), special double issue on "Transformations of the Anthropocene": 135-47.
"Changing Food Cultures, Changing Global Environments," Global Environment 11.1 (Spring 2018): 4-11.
"How Local is Slow Food?" RCC Perspectives 2015.1 ("Think Global, Eat Local: Exploring Foodways," ed. Michel Pimbert, Rachel Shindelar, and Hanna Schösler): 7-12.
"Sustainability and the Humanities: An Extensive Pleasure," American Literary History 24.1 (Spring 2012): 163-179.
"Is Early American Environmental Writing Sustainable? A Response to Timothy Sweet," American Literary History 22.2 (Summer 2010): 432-438.
"Thoreau's Notes on the Journey West: Nature Writing or Environmental History?" ATQ: 19th Century American Literature and Culture 18.2 (June 2004): 105-17.
"Following the Equator to Its End: Mark Twain's South African Conversion" and "Mark Twain in South Africa: A Chronology," Mark Twain Journal 40.1 (Spring 2002): 3-24.
"The Bridge of Words: Encounters with Virginia's Natural Bridge," Southern Cultures 6.3 (Fall 2000): 36-46.
"Poe in the Ragged Mountains: Environmental History and Romantic Aesthetics," Southern Literary Journal 30.2 (Spring 1998): 1-16.
"Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains and Shenandoah Valley: A Place in the South" (co-authored with Michael P. Branch), Appalachian Heritage 26.1 (Winter 1998): 18-25.
"Camping in the 'Woods': Woodchuck Lodge, Woodstock, Woodland Valley," Viet Nam Generation: A Journal of Recent History and Contemporary Issues 5 (1993): 188-90.
Edited Texts
"Edward Abbey's Remarks at the Cracking of Glen Canyon Dam," ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 11.2 (Summer 2004): 161-66.
"Theodore Roosevelt's 'Sou'-Sou'-Southerly': An Unappreciated Nature Essay," North Dakota Quarterly 64.1 (Winter 1997): 83-92.
Interviews
"Still 'Stuffed and Starved,' Ten Years Later: A Conversation" (with Raj Patel), Global Environment 11.1 (Spring 2018): 173-91.
"An Interview with Michael Pollan" (co-authored with Capper Nichols), Ecotone: Reimagining Place 3.2 (Spring 2008): 88-100.
"A More Decent Way of Life: An Interview with Scott Russell Sanders," Ruminator Review 14 (Summer 2003): 34-35, 40, 63.
"Ecologies of Love: An Interview with Barry Lopez," Ruminator Review 12 (Winter 2002-2003): 22-25, 47-48.
"A Conversation with Alan Taylor, Winner of the 1996 Pulitzer Prize in History," Early America Review 2.2 (Fall 1997).
Other Articles
"Environment and Environmentalism: An Overview," Encyclopedia of American Studies (Bethel, Conn.: Grolier, 2001) 84-89.
"Nature on Screen," The Review of Communication 2.3 (July 2002): 273-88.
Online Scholarship
Editor, @sle ONLINE, the website of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (1994-2008)
Curator, Landmarks of American Nature Writing from Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains and Shenandoah Valley, University of Virginia Library exhibit (online since 1997)
Using the tools of the humanities to interpret and address environmental problems.