Essays

Academic Journals

“Pastoral in the Anthropocene,” The Worcester Review 60.1–2 (2019): 158–64

“Centers and Peripheries: Guest Editor’s Introduction,” Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture, special issue on the Small College Department, ed. Mark C. Long (Spring 2010): 271–82

“Shifting Ground: The Emergence of the Bioregion and the Watershed in the Teaching of North American Environmental Literature,” Indian Journal of Ecocriticism 1 (August 2008): 32–38

“Ecocriticism as a Practice of Reading,” Reader: Essays in Reader-Oriented Theory, Criticism, and Pedagogy 53 (Fall 2005): 4-24

“Where Do You Teach?” Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture 5.3 (Fall 2005): 371–77

“Affinities of Faith and Place in the Poetry of Denise Levertov,” ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 6.2 (Summer 1999): 29–40

“‘no confusions-only difficulties’: William Carlos Williams’s Poetics of Apposition,” William Carlos Williams Review 23.2 (Fall 1997): 1–26

“Reading American Literature, Rethinking the Logic of Cultural Work,” Pacific Coast Philology 32.1 (Fall 1997): 87–104

“Graduate Students, Professional Development Programs, and the Future(s) of English Studies,” WPA: Writing Program Administration 20.1–2 (Fall/Winter 1996): 66–78

Book Chapters

“Close Reading at the End of Time,” Close Reading the Anthropocene, Routledge, 2021

“The Problem of Reading, the Practice of Writing,” The Natural History of Reading, ed. Leroy Searle. Seattle: Gorham, 2010. 159–62.

“Reading Writing, and Teaching in Context,” Academic Cultures: Professional Preparation and the Teaching Life. New York: MLA, 2008. 121–32

“Ideas as Forms of Beauty: William Carlos Williams’s Paterson and A. R. Ammons’s Tape for the Turn of Year,” Rigor of Beauty: Essays in Commemoration of William Carlos Williams, Peter Lang, 2004. 365–92

“William Carlos Williams, Ecocriticism, and Contemporary American Poetry,” Ecological Poetry: A Critical Introduction, Salt Lake City, U of Utah P, 2002. 58–74

“Education and Environmental Literacy: Teaching Ecocomposition in Keene State College’s Environmental House,” Ecocomposition: Theoretical and Pedagogical Approaches, Albany: State U of New York P, 2001. 131–45

Reference Entries

“Nature in/after Modernism,” Companion to American Poetry, Wiley-Blackwell, 2021

“Environmental Writing.” Oxford Bibliographies in American Literature. Ed. Paul Lauter. New York: Oxford University Press, (2018)

“Ecopoetry,” Books and Beyond: The Greenwood Encyclopedia of New American Reading. Ed. Kenneth Womack. 4 Vol. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2008. 325–37.

“Theodore Roethke,” Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Poetry (forthcoming)

“A. R. Ammons,” Dictionary of Literary Biography: Nature Writing: Poetry Vol. 342. Eds. Roger Thompson and J. Scott Bryson. New York: Gale, 2008. 3–15.

“Mary Oliver,” A Companion to Twentieth-Century American Poetry. New York: Checkmark, 2005. 356.

“W. S. Merwin,” A Companion to Twentieth-Century American Poetry. New York: Checkmark, 2005. 315–17.

“William Carlos Williams, ‘Spring and All,’” A Companion to Twentieth-Century American Poetry. New York: Checkmark, 2005. 470–71.

“Gary Snyder, ‘Riprap,’” A Companion to Twentieth-Century American Poetry. New York: Checkmark, 2005. 425.

“Denise Levertov,” Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature. Ed. Bron Taylor. New York: Continuum, 2005.

“John McPhee,” Dictionary of Literary Biography: Twentieth-Century Nature Writers: Prose. Vol. 275. Eds. Roger Thompson and J. Scott Bryson. New York: Gale, 2003. 208–22.

Book Introductions


“Introduction” to Poetry Bridging Continents Poetry Anthology, fall 2019

“Introduction,” Ecocultural Ethics: Critical Essays.” Lexington Books (forthcoming Fall 2017)

Journal Special Issues

Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture, special issue on the Small College Department, ed. Mark C. Long (Spring 2010)

Reader: Essays in Reader-Oriented Theory, Criticism, and Pedagogy, special issue on Ecocriticism and the Practice of Reading, ed. Mark C. Long, (Fall 2005)

Interviews and Other Writing

“Ecocriticism: A Model for the Interdisciplinary Humanities,” an Interview with Dr. Mark C. Long, Newsletter of the Organization for the Study of Literature and the Environment (OSLE) India (May 2008)

“Letter from India,” Keene State College Today (Summer 2008)