Vita

Paul Jeffrey Lindholdt
Professor of English
Eastern Washington University
Cheney, WA 99004
509 / 359-2812

EDUCATION

  • Ph.D., English, 1985, Penn State
  • M.A., English, 1980, Western Washington University
  • B.A., English (cum laude), 1978, Western Washington University

TEACHING

  • Eastern Washington University, professor of English, 1994 to present
  • University of Idaho, visiting assistant professor, 1990 to 1994
  • Western Washington University, lecturer, 1987 to 1990
  • Idaho State University, lecturer, 1984 to 1987

RECOGNITION

  • Michael Chappell River Hero Award, Spokane Riverkeeper, 2018
  • Northwest Passages appearance for The Spokane River, 2018
  • Top 10 Professors, Eastern Washington University, 2014
  • Washington State Book Award for Biography/Memoir, 2012
  • Nominated for Pushcart Prizes and John Burroughs Essay Award by Southern Review, Terrain.org, Encircle Books, and Louisiana State
  • Hilliard Endowment in the Humanities Annual Address, University of Nevada-Reno, 2010
  • 1st and 2nd place, Energy & Environmental Reporting, Society of Professional Journalists, Inland Northwest Chapter, 2000
  • Printed ten times since 1986 in Sewanee Review, the oldest continuously published literary quarterly in the U.S.
  • Winner of the 1984 Leonard Steinberg Memorial Prize, Academy of American Poets

GRANTS

  • Northwest Institute for Advanced Study, 2001-2005, 2007, 2010, 2015, 2018, 2021.
  • Book development grants from Columbia Institute, Community Building Foundation, and Smith-Barbieri Progressive Fund, 2018.

BOOKS

  • Interrogating Travel: Guidance from a Reluctant Tourist. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2023.
  • Making Landfall: Poems. Farmington, Maine: Encircle Publications, 2018.
  • The Spokane River (edited, co-written, and introduced). Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2018.
  • Explorations in Ecocriticism: Advocacy, Bioregionalism, and Visual DesignLanham, Maryland: Lexington, 2015.
  • In Earshot of Water: Notes from the Columbia Plateau. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2011.
  • The Canoe and the Saddle: A Critical Edition. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2006.
  • Holding Common Ground: The Individual and Public Lands in the American West. Introduction and edited with Derrick Knowles. Spokane: Eastern Washington University Press, 2005.
  • History and Folklore of the Cowichan Indians (1901, edited and introduced) Spokane: Marquette Books, 2004.
  • Cascadia Wild: Protecting an International Ecosystem. Ed. w/ Mitch Friedman. Bellingham: Greater Ecosystem Alliance, 1993.
  • John Josselyn, Colonial Traveler. Hanover, New Hampshire: University Press of New England, 1988.

BOOK ARTICLES

  • “The World Sings ‘Hallelujah’.” Ethnic and Cultural Identity in Music and Song Lyrics. Eds. Victor Kennedy and Michelle Gadpaille. Newcastle Upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2017. 107-17. Coauthored with English graduate student Katie J. Peterson.
  • Reprint: “Introduction to The Canoe and the Saddle: A Critical Edition.” Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism. Vol. 210. Ed. Kathy D. Darrow. Detroit: Gale-Cenage, 2009. 336-43.
  • “Theodore Winthrop (Sept. 22, 1828 – June 10, 1861).” Early American Nature Writers: A Biographical Encyclopedia. Ed. Daniel Patterson. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2008. 394-99.
  • “The Contested Grounds of Rodeo.” Americana: Readings in Popular Culture. Ed. Leslie Wilson. Hollywood: Press Americana, 2006. 232-41.
  • “An Iconography of American Sabotage.” Nature et Progres: Interactions, Exclusions et Mutations. Ed. Pierre Lagayette. Paris: Presses de Universitaires, Paris Sorbonne, 2006. 151-68.
  • “Literary Activism and the Bioregional Agenda.” The First Decade of Ecocriticism from ISLE: Charting the Edges. Ed. Michael P. Branch and Scott Slovic. Athens: University of Georgia P, 2003.
  • “Restoring Bioregions Through Applied Composition.” Ecocomposition: Theoretical and Pedagogical Approaches. Ed. Christian Weisser and Sidney Dobrin. Albany: State U of New York P, 2001.  235-52.
  • “Considering the Canon: American Nature Writing and the ‘Wise-Use’ Movement.”Western Futures. Ed. Stephen Tchudi for the Nevada Humanities Committee. Reno: U of Nevada P, 2000. 159-83.
  • “Rage Against the Machine: Edward Abbey and Neo-Luddite Thought.” Coyote in the Maze: Tracking Edward Abbey in a World of Words. Ed. Peter Quigley. Salt Lake City: U of Utah P, 1998. 106-118.
  • “Early American Natural Histories.” Literature of Nature: An International Sourcebook. Ed. Patrick D. Murphy. Chicago & London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 1998. 13-17.
  • “The Significance of the Colonial Promotion Tract.” Early American Literature and Culture. London and Toronto: Associated University Presses, 1992. 57-72.

SCHOLARLY ARTICLES

  • When Aldous Huxley Dropped Acid,” JSTOR Daily, Sept. 11, 2024.
  • “Pictorial Activism and the Rewilding of Rivers.” Green Theory and Praxis 10.1 (2017).
  • The Gouges and Scours of Primordial Time.” Trumpeter Journal of Ecosophy 32 (2017).
  • Antidotes to Humanism.” Trumpeter Journal of Ecosophy 29.1 (2012).
  • From Sublimity to Ecopornography: Assessing the Bureau of Reclamation Art Collection.” Journal of Ecocriticism 1.1 (Jan. 2009): 1-25.
  • “Theodore Winthrop in the Washington Territory.” Columbia Magazine 21.1 (Spring 2007): 5-12.
  • “West of Winthrop: Language and Landscape in the Washington Territory.” American Transcendental Quarterly, 18.3 (Sept. 2004): 155-77.
  • “Greening the Dramatic Canon: Henrik Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People.” Interdisciplinary Literary Studies 3.1 (Fall 2001): 53-65.
  • “Communication Arts and Advocacy: An Interview with Erik Ryberg.” International Journal of Communication 10.1 (Jan.-Dec. 2000): 140-57.
  • “Listening Critically, Thinking Lyrically: Music and Language in the Classroom.” Exercise Exchange 45.2 (Spring 2000): 27-30.
  • “Writing from a Sense of Place.” Journal of Environmental Education 30.4 (Summer 1999): 4-10.
  • “The Grammar of Expletive Constructions.” California English 3.3 (Spring 1998): 20-21.
  • “Counterscience and Conservation.” Skeptic Magazine 5.1 (Spring 1997): 64-70.
  • “The Poetry of Meditation.” Exercise Exchange 41.1 (Fall 1995): 5-8.
  • “Literary Activism and the Bioregional Agenda.” ISLE 3.2 (Fall 1996): 121-137.
  • “Evolution and the Gaia Hypothesis.” American Nature Writing Newsletter 6 (Spring 1994): 10.
  • “Images of White Supremacy.” Northwest Review 31.2 (Spring 1993): 131-143.
  • “Range Wars: The Environmental Impacts of Livestock Grazing on Public Rangelands in the West.” Green Library Journal 1.3 (Fall 1992): 33-45.
  • “Ecosystem and Information Management for Native Diversity.” Green Library Journal 1.1 (Winter 1992): 38-43.
  • “Pragmatism and ‘The Beast in the Jungle’.” Studies in Short Fiction 25.3 (Summer 1988): 275-284.
  • “Isaac McCaslin and the Burden of Influence” [on William Faulkner]. University of Mississippi Studies in English 5 (1987): 172-181.
  • “Ernest Hemingway’s ‘Summer People’: More Textual Errors and a Reply.” Studies in Short Fiction 20.4 (Fall 1983): 319-320.
  • “Richard Hugo’s Language: The Poem as ‘Obsessive Musical Deed’.” Concerning Poetry 16 (Fall 1983): 67-75.

LITERARY NONFICTION

  • Pieces of World, Idaho Magazine 23.2 (November 2023): 49-53.
  • “Swaddled in Rose Silk.” Tampa Review  57 (2019): 98-103.
  • “Survivor Tree.” Seneca Review  49.1 (2019): 46-53.
  • Making Landfall,” John Burroughs Essay Award nominee, Terrain.org., Aug 5. 2019.
  • “Hawk Watching.” Kenyon Review  40.3 (May/June 2018): 64-70.
  • “My Climate Change.” Crab Orchard Review, February 2018: 279-85.
  • The Security of Dirt.” The Smart Set, Feb. 19, 2018.
  • The Inflatable Museum,” Pushcart Prize nominee, Southern Review  53.2 (Spring 2017): 319-331.
  • White River,” Spokesman-Review July 16, 2017.
  • Shrub Steppe, Pothole, Ponderosa Pine.” Numero Cinq (Aug. 2017).
  • Broncos in the Salon.” Cargo Literary Magazine July 2017.
  • The Trumpets of Solitude.” Terrain.org  35 (Apr. 2015).
  • “Shooters and the Tools They Use.” Sewanee Review 122(4):625-632.
  • “Genius Loci.” Sewanee Review 118.1 (Winter 2010): 46-57.
  • “Magpie in the Window.” Memoir 2.2 (Fall-Winter 2009): 32-36.
  • “Living the Land.” Weber Studies 19.3 (Spring-Summer 2002): 88-94.
  • “In the Shadow of the Government’s Blind Eye.” Organization and Environment 14.3 (September 2001): 344-55. (Reprinted in Literature and the Environment.) 2nd ed. Ed. Lorraine Anderson, Scott Slovic, and John O’Grady. Boston: Pearson, 2013.
  • “The Spray and the Slamming Sea.” On Nature: Great Writers on the Great Outdoors (New York: Putnam Penguin, 2002): 149-59.
  • “Hunting Technology.” Exquisite Corpse 9 (2001).
  • “High Country.” Brevity 8.2 (Fall 2000).

REVIEW ESSAYS

  • A Braided Stream: On Keats Conley’s Guidance from the God of Seahorses.” Poetry Northwest (Dec. 30, 2022).
  • “Ecological Criticism Today.” Sewanee Review 110.1 (Winter 2002): 169-74.
  • Luddism and Its Discontents.” American Quarterly 49.4 (Fall 1997): 866-73.
  • “Talking about the Land.” Sewanee Review 103.4 (Fall 1995): 621-25.
  • “Animal Energies and Tribal Rhythms.” Sewanee Review 101.2 (Spring 1993): 269-277.
  • “Early American Culture and the Canon.” Sewanee Review 100.4 (Fall 1992): 675-83.
  • “Crimes of Gender in Puritan America.” American Quarterly  40.4 (Winter 1988): 563-568.
  • “Iconoclasm as a Puritan Art.” Sewanee Review  96.3 (Summer 1988): 464-468.

POETRY

  • The Birds Gave Way,” Vancouver Poetry Magazine, Sept. 15, 2024.
  • “Ode on a Granite Slab.” I Sing the Salmon Home. Ed. Rena Priest (Chimacum, WA: Empty Bowl Press 2023), p. 226.
  • Directive” and “Brown Recluse.” Revista Interdisciplinar de Literatura e Ecocritica: ASLE Brasil (2022).
  • “A Tsunamic Hurricane,” “The Rhetorician’s Funeral,” “Ubi Sunt,” “Centuries Inland,” and “Artifact.” Early American Literature 54.3 (Fall 2019): 615-19.
  • “Malad,” “Yeoman,” and “Crossing Arbon Valley.” Poetry Northwest 8.2 (Fall-Winter 2013-14): 18-19.
  • “Brooding Season.” EntanglementsEcopoems. Uig, Scotland: Two Ravens, 2012.
  • “Giving Voices,” “Sarah Hawkridge,” “American Triptych,” Mary Dyer,” and “The Great Awakening.” Common-place: The Journal of Early American Life 6.2 (Jan. 2006). American Antiquarian Society.
  • “The Fox” and “Captives of the County Fair.” ISLE 8.2 (Summer 2001): 257-58.
  • “Hawk Hunting” and “From the Air.” Organization and Environment 10.2 (Summer 1997): 184.
  • “My Evil Twin.” A.” merican Literary Review 6.1 (Spring 1995): 26.
  • “Magistrate.” Southern Humanities Review 28 (Summer 1994): 278-279.
  • “Another Wild,” “Cotton Mather,” Here and Now,” “Rebecca Glover.” Chicago Review 40.1 (Winter 1994): 26-31.
  • “Barnyard Artist.” Poet Lore 86 (Summer 1991): 27-28.
  • “The Glare of Her Awareness,” “Marianne’s Quarters,” “Cotton Mather.” Fugue 2 (Spring 1991): 10, 20, 34.
  • “Kit Gardiner, Banished,” “Inscription,” “Promoter of the Colonies.” Sewanee Review 97 (Fall 1989): 23-27.
  • “Brood Slave.” Beloit Poetry Journal 37 (Spring 1987): 5-6.
  • “Traveler to the Colonies.” Sewanee Review 94 (Winter 1986): 1-3.
  • “Mount Taenum” and “Letter to Huff from Bellefonte, PA.” Ohio Journal 8 (Winter 1984-85): 11.
  • “Ouzel.” Southern Humanities Review 17 (Winter 1983): 32.
  • “The Plumed Clod.” “Ptarmigan,” and “Shrike.” Antigonish Review 55 (Fall 1983): 65-68.
  • “Song of a Lapsed Vegetarian.” Bellingham Review 6 (Fall 1983): 19.

BOOK REVIEWS

  • On the Trail of the Jackalope, by Michael Branch, Nevada Historical Society Quarterly 63 (2022): 124-26.
  • Savage West: The Life and Fiction of Thomas Savage, by Alan Weltzien, Western American Literature 56.1 (Spring 2021): 87-89.
  • How to Cuss in Western, by Michael Branch, in Western American Literature 54.1 (Spring 2019): 94-96.
  • Subtle Thieves, by Ron McFarland, in Poetry Northwest June 13, 2013.
  • Anatomy of Melancholy, by Robert Wrigley, in Poetry Northwest Feb. 18, 2014.
  • Loving Nature, Fearing the State: Environmentalism and Antigovernment Politics before Reagan, by Brian Allen Drake, in Pacific Northwest Quarterly 105.1 (Winter 2013-14): 41-2.
  • When the Killing’s Done, by T. C. Boyle, in ISLE 18.4 (Autumn 2011): 881-2. 
  • Atomic Farmgirl, by Teri Hein, in ISLE 11.1 (Winter 2004): 263-4.
  • Standing Up to the Rock, by T. Louise Freeman-Toole, in Nature in Legend and Story 1.2 (Spring 2002): 30.
  • A Language Older than Words, by Derrick Jensen, in ISLE 8.2 (Summer 2001): 276-78.
  • Science Under Siege: The Politicians’ War on Nature and Truth, by Todd Wilkinson, in ISLE: 6.2 (1999): 227.
  • Wild to the Last: Environmental Conflict in the Clearwater Country, by Charles Pezeshki, in Wild Earth 8.3 (Fall 1998): 99-100.
  • Betrayal of Science and Reason: How Anti-Environmental Rhetoric Threatens Our Future, by Paul R. Ehrlich & Anne H. Ehrlich, and This Land Is Our Land: How to End the War on Private Property, by Congressman Richard Pombo and Joseph Farah, in ISLE 5.1 (Winter 1998): 147-49.
  • Greening the College Curriculum: A Guide to Environmental Teaching in the Liberal Arts, ed. Jonathan Collett and Stephen Karakashian, in ISLE (1997).
  • Farmers and Fishermen: Two Centuries of Work in Essex County, Massachusetts, 1630-1850, by Daniel Vickers, in Seventeenth-Century News 54 (Spring-Summer 1996): 35-36.
  • Eco-Warriors: Understanding the Radical Environmental Movement, by Rik Scarce, and The War Against Gravity, by Kristine Rosemary, in Redneck Review of Literature 19 (Fall 1994): 102-104.
  • Waste of the West: Public Lands Ranching, by Lynn Jacobs, and Beyond Beef: The Rise and Fall of the Cattle Culture, by Jeremy Rifkin, in Redneck Review of Literature 18 (Fall 1993): 88-92.
  • The Formation of a Society on Virginia’s Eastern Shore, 1615-1655, by James R. Perry, in Seventeenth-Century News 50 (Spring-Summer 1992): 11.
  • Anne Bradstreet: A Reference Guide, by Raymond F. Dolle, in Seventeenth-Century News 50 (Spring-Summer 1992): 11-12.
  • North Carolina Through Four Centuries, by William S. Powell, in Seventeenth-Century News 49 (Spring-Summer 1991): 20-21.
  • Technical Writing: A Reader-Centered Approach, by Paul V. Anderson, in College Composition and Communication 39 (December 1988): 484-485.
  • Wilderness Lost: The Religious Origins of the American Mind, by David R. Williams, in American Literature 60 (May 1988): 291-293.
  • Local Assays on Contemporary American Poetry, by Dave Smith, in Southern Humanities Review 21 (Winter 1987): 94-95.
  • Tobacco and Slaves: The Development of Southern Cultures in the Chesapeake, by Allan Kulikoff, in Seventeenth-Century News 45 (Fall 1987): 49-50.
  • Puritan Poetry and Poetics: Seventeenth-Century American Poetry in Theory and Practice, ed. Peter White, in Concerning Poetry 20 (1987): 130-132.
  • An American Triptych: Anne Bradstreet, Emily Dickinson, Adrienne Rich, by Wendy Martin, in Concerning Poetry 19 (1986): 148-151.
  • American Writers Before 1800: A Biographical and Critical Dictionary, 3 Vols., in Seventeenth-Century News 43 (1985): 18.
  • We Are Called Human: The Poetry of Richard Hugo, by Michael S. Allen; and A Trout in the Milk: A Composite Portrait of Richard Hugo, ed. Jack Myers, in Southern Humanities Review 19 (Winter 1985): 81-82.
  • “With Bodilie Eyes”: Eschatological Themes in Puritan Literature and Gravestone Art, by David H. Watters, in Seventeenth-Century News 42 (1984): 18-19.

SCHOLARLY PRESENTATIONS

  • “Thinking Like a River,” Ecopoetics Perpignan colloquium, Perpignan, France, June 23, 2016.
  •  “Paddling Lake Missoula,” Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE), Moscow, ID, June 24, 2015,
  • “Reassessing Edward Curtis and a Warrior’s Portrait.” Pacific Northwest American Studies Association (PNASA). Ellensburg, WA, April 19, 2014.
  • “Ekphrasis and William Carlos Williams’ Aesthetic.” PNASA. Seattle, WA, April 19, 2013.
  • “Occupying BC: Social Protest and the ‘Sons of Freedom’ Doukhobors.”PNASA, Ellensburg, WA, April 14, 2012.
  • “Ecologize This: Semantic Noise in Environmental Discourse.”PNASA, Walla Walla, WA, April 11, 2008.
  • “Government Greenwash: The Bureau of Reclamation Fine Arts Collection.” PNASA, Spokane, Washington, April 21, 2006.
  • “Three Coyotes.” Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association (RMMLA). Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. Oct. 22, 2005.
  • “Ecoporn on the Oregon Trail.” ASLE, Eugene, Oregon. June 22, 2005.
  • “The Contested Grounds of North American Rodeo.” Center for Western U.S. and Asia/Pacific Studies. University of Paris-Sorbonne, France. Nov. 12, 2004.
  • “Counter-Environmentalism: How Wise Is the Wise-Use Movement?” PNASA, Warm Springs, Oregon. April 10, 2004.
  • “Environmental Literature as Antidote to Humanism.” PNASA, Lincoln City, Oregon. April 11, 2003.
  • “An Iconography of Sabotage.” Center for Western U.S. and Asia / Pacific Studies. University of Paris Sorbonne, France. November 8, 2002.
  • “Living the Land.” ASLE, Flagstaff, Arizona. June 20, 2001.
  • “Interpretive Ecology in Early American Literature.” RMMLA, Boise. Oct. 14, 2000.
  • “Nature’s Sales Pitch.” American Culture Association / Pop Culture Association Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana. April 19-20, 2000.
  • “The Anti-U.N. Bias of American Militias.” Northwest International Education Association Conference, Seattle. April 24, 1999.
  • “Personalizing Geographies.” Conference on College Composition and Communication, Atlanta, Georgia. March 25, 1999.
  • “Devouring the Prairies: Washington Irving on a Tour of the Great Plains.” PNASA, Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. April 10, 1998.
  • “Ecological Sustainability in Early American Natural Histories” and “Rage Against the Machine: Edward Abbey as Neo-Luddite.” ASLE, Missoula, Montana. July 17 & 19, 1997.
  • “Wise Use and Western Literature.” Western Literature Association, Vancouver, BC, 12 October 1995.
  • “Ecocriticism Emerging: The Bioregional Agenda.” ASLE, Fort Collins, Colorado. June 9, 1995; panelist, Politics/Advocacy in Literature and Environment.
  • “What’s It Mean to Be Green? Putting Ideas into Action.” National Council of Teachers of English, Spokane, Washington. April 2, 1995.
  • “Mellowing the Movement: Radical Environmentalism in the American West.” PNASA, Bend, Oregon. April 2, 1993.
  • “Apostrophes to Malcontents: Discovery Rhetoric in British North America.” Christianity and Literature Association, Seattle. May 2, 1992.
  • “Community Enrichment through Co-Housing” and “Individuality and Community: The Model of Northern Exposure.” PNASA, Seattle, April 2-3, 1992.
  • “Racism, Surrealism, and the Murder of Alan Berg.” PNASA, Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. April 12, 1991.
  • “Poetries of Meditation.” RMMLA, Spokane. October 15, 1987.
  • “The Value of the Negative Example.” RMMLA, Denver, October 16, 1986.
  • “Rhetorical Patterns in the Colonial Promotion Tract.” RMMLA, Provo, Utah. October 19, 1985.

SERVICE

  •  Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee member, EWU, Dec. 2024 to present
  • Academic Appeals Board member, EWU, March 2024 to present
  • Honors Advisory Board, EWU, 2002-05, 2022-25
  • Friends of Palisades Board member, Palisades Park, Spokane, Feb. 23, 2023 to present
  • Citizens Advisory Committee, Spokane Parks and Recreation, January 2023 to present
  • Featured poet at Foray in the Arts, June 26, 2024.
  • Featured poet at Spokane Central Library for the book I Sing the Salmon Home, Aug. 17, 2023
  • Poetry Moment, Spokane Public Radio, April 3-7, 2023
  • Clawson-Youngs Award Committee, Eastern Washington University, 2022-23
  • Master of Ceremonies, Spoken River, annual fundraiser for the Spokane Riverkeeper, Hamilton Studio, Spokane, Oct. 28, 2022
  • Blurbs for books by Lisa Langelier (The Wild Eye), 2016 + O. Alan Weltzien (Through the Basement of Time) (2022), Sarah Conover (Set Adrift), Ammi Midstokke (All the Things), and Georgia Tiffany (Body Be Sound), 2023
  • Guest Speaker, Unitarian Universalist Church Spokane: “What Is Poetry Good For?” Feb. 6, 2022, “Making Landfall”; Feb. 9, 2020, “Taken by the Sea,” Sept. 24, 2023;
  • Editorial Board Member, Waterscape Book Series, University of Nevada Press, 2019-present
  • Narrative Co-Editor, Trumpeter Journal of Ecosophy, 2019 to present
  • Board Member/Peer Reviewer variously: European Journal of American StudiesClio: A Journal of Literature, History, and the Philosophy of History; Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature
  • External Program Reviewer, University of Idaho English Department, Sept. 10-12, 2017.
  • Organizer of Pre-conference Seminar on Bioregionalism: Theory, Practice, and Pedagogy, Association for the Study of Literature and Environment, June 22, 2015.
  • Contributing Historian, HistoryLink, online encyclopedia of Washington State history, 2012-present. HistoryLink is the first and largest encyclopedia of community history created expressly for the Internet. Free to the public, the encyclopedia enjoys some 6,000 visitors per day.
  • Columnist, Writers on the Range, op-ed syndicate of High Country News, variously 1997 to present.
  • Outside reviewer for tenure at English Departments of the University of Idaho and Washington State University, 2014
  • EWU Library Affairs Council member 2013-2019, Co-Chair, 2014-2016
  • Search Committee Member, Executive Directorship, eLearning and Off-Campus Programs, 2012
  • Search Committee Member, Library Deanship, 2009-10
  • English Department Personnel Committee, 2003-06; Chair, 2004-06, 2010-12
  • Editorial Board Member, Journal of Ecocriticism, 2010-19
  • Editorial Board Member, Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, 1996-2010
  • Northwest Fund for the Environment Trustee, 2005-2007
  • Eastern Environmental (ASEWU student club), Advisor / Founder, 1997-2007
  • Get Lit! Humanities Advisor / Presenter / Moderator, variously since 2004
  • McNair Scholars Program, Faculty Mentor, 1998, 2000, 2001-02
  • Research and Creative Works Symposium, Mentor, 2001-present
  • Eastern Dialogues Committee member, 2000-01; Chair, 2001-2002
  • Executive Committee, Sierra Club, Upper Columbia River Group, 1997-2005; Committee Chair, 1997-2000
  • Columnist, Board of Contributors, Spokesman-Review, Spokane, WA, 1996-2000

 REPORTED OPINION PIECES

  • The Green-Minded Traveler,” Inlander, June 29, 2023.
  • Nomads of the Sea,” Spokesman-Review Aug. 12, 2022.
  • The Power of Prose behind Oscar Frontrunner ‘The Power of the Dog’,” Spokesman-Review March 24, 2022.
  • Online learning has become integral to education,” Spokesman-Review Oct. 27, 2021.
  • Wildfires signal climate in calamity.” Spokesman-Review June 5, 2019.
  • Free Speech Has No Room for Espousing Hatred.” Spokesman-Review Mar. 29, 2018.
  • Free-flowing rivers are essential to our region’s health.” Spokesman-Review Feb. 10, 2018.
  • Education’s Goal: Build Inquisitive Minds.” Spokesman-Review Mar. 31, 2017.
  • Kick Cows off Refuge Lands.” Spokesman-Review Feb. 7, 2016.
  • Washington’s Long Summer of Fire and Smoke.” High Country News Oct. 29, 2015. Syndicated nationally.
  • Paddling Lake Missoula.” Spokesman-Review Aug. 2, 2015.
  • ’Shooters’ Spoiling the Sport of Hunting.” Spokesman-Review Apr. 3, 2014.
  • Portrait of Yakama Indian Lokout Adds to History of Brother Qualchan.” Spokesman-Review Dec. 1, 2013.
  • Washington wipes out a wolf pack.” High Country News Nov. 21, 2012. Syndicated nationally.
  • “Give state’s wolf plan a chance.” Spokesman-Review September 8, 2012.
  • “Restoring faith in salmon and dams.” Spokesman-Review May 5, 2012: B9.
  • “The Blacksmith.” Portland Monthly Jan. 2012: 68-9.
  • “Attention imperative to enter this club.” Spokesman-Review Dec. 10, 2011: B3.
  • “Lake Roosevelt belongs to all of us.” Spokesman-Review July 2, 2011: A13.
  • “Hunting season and the return of the ethically challenged.” Oregonian Nov. 18, 2010: online.
  • “Sickened and radicalized.” Spokesman-Review July 3, 2010: B5.
  • The Fine Art of Bureaucracy.” High Country News Jan. 14, 2009.
  • “From S.W.A.T. team to elk hunt.” Out There Monthly Nov. 26, 2006: 26.
  • “Invasion of the pod snatchers.” Pacific Northwest Inlander July 20, 2006: 50.
  • “From pristine sources.” Spokesman-Review Oct. 17, 2004: H2.
  • “Call of the wild.” Pacific Northwest Inlander Aug. 5, 2004: 9.
  • “Wise-use wedges.” Pacific Northwest Inlander Mar. 4, 2004: 9.
  • “The sterile valley’s legacy.” Alternet July 30, 2001.
  • “Death penalty delusions.” Pacific Northwest Inlander June 21, 2001: 5.
  • “Second nature.” The Local Planet Sept. 21, 2000: 15-18. Winner, Society of Professional Journalists Award, Inland Northwest Chapter, Second Place, Energy and Environmental Reporting.
  • “Spawning dollars: The Snake River and the politics of loss.” The Local Planet March 16, 2000: 12-16. Winner, Society of Professional Journalists Award, First Place, Inland Northwest Chapter, Energy and Environmental Reporting.
  • “Help create a cleaner, greener, sustainable future.” Spokesman-Review Dec. 24, 2000: B7.
  • “The future of hunting.” The Local Planet Oct. 26, 2000: 4.
  • “Adage holds true: good things come to those who wait.” Spokesman-Review Sept. 24, 2000: B9.
  • “’Language’ looks at dark side of human nature.” Spokesman-Review 21 May 2000: F6.
  • “Healthy choices.” Pacific Northwest Inlander Jan. 26, 2000: 4.
  • “Close Range.” Pacific Northwest Inlander Jan. 12, 2000: 9 -10.
  • “Fighting the WTO.” Pacific Northwest Inlander Nov. 10, 1999: 4.
  • “Shaking up can lead to engagement and real learning.” Spokesman-Review Oct. 24, 1999: B10.
  • “Something to encourage the heart and nourish the soul.” Spokesman-Review Aug. 29, 1999: B11.
  • Salmon’s lesson.” Pacific Northwest Inlander May 26, 1999: 4.
  • “Dam nation.” Pacific Northwest Inlander Sept. 2: B4.
  • “Kempthorne sees enabling poachers as a state’s right.” Spokesman-Review Aug. 16, 1998: B9.
  • “Ranching rip-off.” Pacific Northwest Inlander Aug. 5, 1998: 4
  • “Mark of the grizzly.” Pacific Northwest Inlander July 8, 1998: 12.
  • “SUV silliness.” Pacific Northwest Inlander June 17, 1998: 4.
  • “Anguished cry from a wilderness under siege.” Spokesman-Review May 31, 1998: B9.
  • “Science for sale.” Pacific Northwest Inlander May 13, 1998: 4.
  • “Technology’s mirage.” Pacific Northwest Inlander March 11, 1998: 4.
  • “Facing the meatless masses.” Pacific Northwest Inlander April 8, 1998: 39.
  • “Spokane’s image lost in a haze of smoke and politics.” Spokesman-Review April 5, 1998: B11.
  • “A wake-up call for xenophobes, a revival for the avaricious.” Spokesman-Review Dec. 7, 1997: B9.
  • “Measure nature’s ruin in terms of cc’s, rpm and decibels.” Spokesman-Review Oct. 5, 1997: B11.
  • “Your next meal needn’t come as a toxic shock.” Spokesman-Review July 27, 1997: B7.
  • “It takes a worried man to sing a worried song.” Spokesman-Review June 8, 1997: B7.
  • “Cleansing fire, not salvage logging, is the better way.” Spokesman-Review 6 April 1997: B11.
  • “Fact or fiction? Making sense of the environmental debate.” Pacific Northwest Inlander April 9-15: 11.
  • “You deserve a break today – from chemicals, fats, salts.” Spokesman-Review 9 Feb. 1997: B13.
  • “Dreaming of a new west.” Pacific Northwest Inlander Jan, 9 1997: 4.
  • “Preserving nature’s integrity a legacy and labor of love.” Spokesman-Review 22 Sept. 1996: B9.
  • “Weapons of choice: lies, distortions and ‘counterscience’.” Spokesman-Review 4 Aug. 1996: B7.
  • “Surely, there must be some limit as to what is sport.” Spokesman-Review 31 March 1996: B7.
  • “Keep Idaho Wild.” Pacific Northwest Inlander 8 Nov. 1995: 4.
  • “Abe Lincoln and the Field of Stumps.” Cascadia Times 1.5 (Aug. 1995): 18.
  • “Wise Use Joins the Militia.” Cascadia Times 1.3 (June 1995): 1, 10-13.
  • “Organic Farming and the Palouse.” Pacific Northwest Inlander Feb. 28, 1995: 4.
  • “Change on the Range.” Pacific Northwest Magazine Oct. 1991: 9, 11-12.