Book
- The Georgic Mode in Twentieth-Century American Literature: The Satisfactions of Soil and Sweat. Forthcoming from Lexington Books on 15 March. Available for pre-order now.
Articles
Other Writing
Reviews
Conferences and Presentations
- "Kindred Ethics: Leopold and Badiou; Ecocriticism and Theory" The Journal of Ecocriticism 5.1 (2013), <http://ojs.unbc.ca/index.php/joe/article/view/422>
- "Labor and Technology in Port William: The Revelatory Value of Wendell Berry's Fiction" Mississippi Quarterly 67.2 (Spring 2014): 171-192.
- "Georgic Environmentalism in North of Boston: An Ethic for Economic Landscapes" Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 23.2 (2016): 344-369. doi: 10.1093/isle/isw034
- "Precluded Dwelling: The Dollmaker and Under the Feet of Jesus as Georgics of Displacement" The Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy 25.1 (2017): 86-104.
- "Diminishing Returns: Epic Motifs in John Ehle's Mountain Novels" Appalachian Journal 46.3-4 (Spring/Summer 2019): 244-60.
- “Georgic Marvel: Agriculture and Affect” Ecozon@: The European Journal of Literature Culture and Environment 12.2 (2021): 117-33.
- "The Gift of Good Death: Revising Nathan Coulter." In Telling the Stories Right: Wendell Berry's Imagination of Port William. Ed. Jack Baker and Jeffrey Bilbro. Wipf and Stock, 2018.
- "Influence and Legacy: The Farmers Federation in Madison County, NC." Appalachian Curator 2.2 (Fall 2020): 4-13.
- “Wordsworth’s ‘Michael’ and the Imperilled Georgic: Questions of Agricultural Permanence.” In Georgic Literature and the Environment: Working Land, Reworking Genre. Ed. Sue Edney and Tess Somervell. Routledge, 2022.
- “Mountain Georgics: Appalachia and Everyday Nature.” In Appalachian Ecocriticism: And the Paradox of Place, Ed. Jessica Cory and Laura Wright, The University of Georgia Press, 2023.
Other Writing
- “Backyard Beekeeping” Front Porch Republic (website), 11 July 2018.
- “Conservation by the Yard” Front Porch Republic (website), 27 July 2018.
- “America’s Regional Fences” Front Porch Republic (website), 10 September 2018.
- “Cultivating the Candy Roaster: An Extensive Pleasure” Front Porch Republic (website), 19 November 2018.
- "Take a Hike? (I Would Prefer Not To)" Front Porch Republic (website), 8 July 2019.
- "Resisting Romanticism and the Elision of Labor" Front Porch Republic (website), 27 September 2019.
- "The Dirt on Resilience" Front Porch Republic (website), 12 December 2019.
- “A Western North Carolina Farm” – Virtual Tour developed as part of a project funded by the CIC “Humanities Research for the Public Good” grant.
Linked here: https://tinyurl.com/ycuscylo and here: https://tinyurl.com/yavly2o7 - “In Defense of Okra” – Front Porch Republic (website), 15 July 2020.
- "Heating with Wood as a Habit of Mind" - Front Porch Republic (website), 20 January 2023.
- "Cornmeal and Butter: On the Significance of Temperature" - Front Porch Republic (website), 9 March 2023.
Reviews
- Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation. By Michael Pollan. New York: Penguin, 2013. ISLE 2014; doi: 10.1093/isle/ist135
- Seeking Home: Marginalization and Representation in Appalachian Literature and Song. The University of Tennessee Press, 2016. West Virginia History: A Journal of Regional Studies, 12.1-2 (2018): pp. 130-32.
- “Fire is Your Water: Reviews and Response” The Iron Mountain Review 33 (Fall 2019).
- Fishing the Jumps: A Novel. By Lamar Herrin. UP of Kentucky, 2019. Journal of Appalachian Studies 26.1 (Spring 2020): pp. 128-29.
- “Wholeness and Gratitude: Working through Scott H. Moore’s How to Burn a Goat” Front Porch Republic (website), 23 March 2020.
- “The Growing Pains of a Small Farm: Kristin Kimball’s Good Husbandry and “The Problem of Scale” Front Porch Republic (website), 19 August 2020.
- "More of the Familiar in Wendell Berry's How It Went" Front Porch Republic (website), 8 November 2022.
Conferences and Presentations
- "Seeing Clearly in the Southern Appalachians: 'Yankee' Influences and Perspectives"; ASA 2024; Cullowhee, NC
- "The Farm and the Archive: Old MacDonald Moves Online"; 2022; Mars Hill, North Carolina
- "Feast and Farmin': A Celebration of Western North Carolina Agricultural History"; 2020; Mars Hill, North Carolina; (see youtube video below on the left; my presentation begins at 9:20).
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- “An Agricultural Understory: The Farmers Federation News and Private Forest Management in Western North Carolina” ASA 2020; Lexington, KY (conference cancelled; see screencast above and to the right)
- "Both History and Myth: The Shelton Laurel Massacre in Fiction"; ASA 2019, Asheville, NC
- "Mountain Georgics: Everyday Nature in Appalachian Literature"; ASA 2018, Cincinnati, OH
- "Mouldering Epic: Unearthing War in the Georgic Mode"; ASLE 2017, Detroit, MI
- "Appalachian Epic: John Ehle’s The Land Breakers and the Diminishing Returns of Mountaineer Mythology"; ASA 2017, Blacksburg, VA
- "Far-Reaching Plow Lines: Jesse Stuart's Man with a Bull-Tongue Plow"; ASA 2016, Shepherdstown, WV
- “Strange Bedfellows: Sharecropping and Sustainability in the South"; MLA 2016, Austin, TX
- “Radical Sustainability: Revolution in Wendell Berry’s Mad Farmer Poems”; SAMLA 2014, Atlanta, GA
- “Working the Earth and Selling Sustainability: Louis Bromfield’s Georgic Legacies”; CALS Graduate Award Symposium (2014), University Park, PA
- “Burley Coulter’s Degradation: Living the Limits of Agriculture in Wendell Berry’s Fiction”; ASLE 2013, Lawrence, KS
- “Agriculture’s Shifting Edges: Temporal Ecotones in Cather and Glasgow”; ALA 2012, San Francisco, CA
- “The Paradox of Draft Animals: Exploiting Green Power”; ASLE 2011, Bloomington, IN
- “At the Crossroads: Leopold’s ‘Land Ethic’ and Badiou’s Ethics”; Sharp Eyes VI (2010), Oneonta, NY
- “A Conversation with Wendell Berry”; 2013, Floyd, VA; Panelists: Wendell Berry, Jason Rutledge, Carl Russell, Guy Dunkle; Moderator: Ethan Mannon. Click here to watch the panel. (A musical prelude takes up the first 14:20 of the video. My introduction of the panelists concludes at minute nineteen. Berry's opening statement runs from 19:20 to 27:50. After the other panelists make their opening statements, the question and answer session begins at minute forty).
During a visit to the Ohio State Rare Books and Manuscripts Library where I was researching a chapter for my dissertation on the now forgotten, novelist-turned-farmer Louis Bromfield, I noticed a pair of letters from a man from my wife's hometown. I mentioned these letters to my father-in-law over the holidays, and after exchanging some emails with a reporter from the Newtown Bee, she wrote an article describing the letters to Bromfield. Though this topic had, at best, a tangential relationship to my dissertation, I sill enjoyed uncovering something of personal interest to my family and of general, historical interest to the proud people of my wife's hometown.