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Scott Slovic

An Illinois native, Scott Slovic grew up in Eugene, Oregon, and has been a professor of literature and environment at the University of Nevada, Reno, since 1995. The author, editor, and co-editor of fifteen books in the field of environmental literature and ecocriticism—and author of more than 100 articles on American, German, Japanese, and Australian environmental writing—his forthcoming books include a work of literary nonfiction about Yucca Mountain (the proposed repository for high-level nuclear waste in southern Nevada) and a collection of literary and ecocritical essays titled Going Away to Think: Engagement, Retreat, and Ecocritical Responsibility. His previously published books include Seeking Awareness in American Nature Writing: Henry Thoreau, Annie Dillard, Edward Abbey, Wendell Berry, Barry Lopez (1992), Getting Over the Color Green: Contemporary Environmental Literature of the Southwest (2001), What’s Nature Worth?: Narrative Expressions of Environmental Values (2004), and Wild Nevada: Testimonies on Behalf of the Desert (2005), among others. A former Fulbright Scholar at the University of Bonn in West Germany (1986-87), the University of Tokyo in Japan (1993-94), and the Guangdong University of Foreign Studies in China (2006), he also served as founding president of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE) from 1992 to 1995, and since 1995 he has edited the journal ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, the major international journal in the field.

Though he finds it difficult to leave the spectacular hiking and running opportunities of the Eastern Sierra, his work frequently compels him to travel throughout the country and around the world, and in the past year he has visited Mexico, Northern Cyprus, Finland, Taiwan, Italy, Malaysia, and France to give lectures, do research on international environmental literature, and support emerging movements in the field of ecocriticism.

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