Abridged
Vita
Thomas
Lynch
Current Position
Associate professor, English Department,
University of Nebraska, Lincoln.
Teaching place-conscious literature, ecocriticism,
and American literature.
Education and Degrees
Ph.D.
University of Oregon, American literature / folklore, June 1989.
Dissertation
title: "An Original Relation to the Universe: Emersonian Poetics of
Immanence and Contemporary American Haiku."
Director: Glen Love.
M.A.
University of Oregon, English literature, 1981.
B.A.
Indiana University of Pennsylvania, English literature, 1977.
Other Recent Positions
Visiting Research Fellow, Fenner School for
Environment and Society, Australian National University,
Canberra, June-August 2008.
College assistant professor/instructor, New Mexico
State University (fall 1997-fall 2003).
Visiting Research Fellow, Centre for
Cross-Cultural Research, Australian National University, Canberra, (July 1-Dec.
31, 2001).
Awards
The O. Marvin Lewis Award for the best non-fiction
work appearing in Weber Studies in 1997 for "The Domestic Air of Wilderness:
Henry Thoreau and Joe Polis in the Maine
Woods."
Grants
A $10,000 Layman grant from the College of Arts and
Sciences, University of Nebraska, for funding of travel to Australia to conduct
research for "Outback / Out West" Project, 2008.
A $1,500 grant from the Southwest and Border
Cultures Institute at New Mexico State University to fund travel for research
for
Xerophilia book project, 2003.
Current Research and Writing Activities
I am writing and researching a comparative
book-length study of literature of the American West and the Australian Outback
employing
postcolonial and ecocritical theory, tentatively
titled "Out West / Outback."
"For the Love of Parasites, and other Living
Things: An Interview with John Janovy, Jr." Forthcoming in Isotope: A Journal of Literary
Nature and Science Writing.
"Reading Places: Bioregional Literary
Criticism," an anthology of
critical essays in bioregional literary criticism, co-edited with Cheryll
Glotfelty and Karla Armbruster. In progress.
"Artifacts and Illuminations: Scholarly
Essays on Loren Eiseley," an anthology of critical essays on Loren
Eiseley, co-edited with
Susan Maher.
In progress.
Selected Recent Publications
Books
Xerophilia: Ecocritical Explorations in
Southwestern Literature. Forthcoming
Fall 2008 from Texas Tech University Press.
El Lobo: Readings on the Mexican Gray Wolf. University of Utah Press, 2005. Edited Anthology.
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Xerophilia |
El Lobo |
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Scholarly Articles and Book Chapters
"Literature in the Arid Zone." In The Littoral Zone: Australian
Contexts and Their Writers, ed. CA.
Cranston and Robert Zeller.
Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2007. 71-92.
"Readings in Place: Recent Publications in
Southwest Studies." American
Literary History
17.2 (2005): 381-398.
"Toward a Symbiosis of Ecology and Justice:
Water and Land Conflicts in Frank Waters,
John Nichols, and Jimmy Santiago Baca."
The Environmental Justice Reader: Politics,
Poetics and Pedagogy,
ed. by Joni Adamson, Rachel Stein, and Mei Mei Evans. Tucson:
University of Arizona Press, 2002. An expanded version also appears in Western
American Literature
37.4. (2002): 405-428.
"Nativity, Domesticity, and Exile in Edward
Abbey's 'One True Home'." In Coyote
in the Maze: Tracking Edward Abbey in a World of Words,
ed. by Peter Quigley. Salt Lake City: U of Utah P,
1998. 88-105.
"The
'Domestic Air' of Wilderness: Henry Thoreau and Joe Polis in the Maine
Woods." Weber Studies 14.3 (1997): 38-48.
"What Josiah Said: The Role of Uncle Josiah
in Leslie Silko's Ceremony."
North Dakota Quarterly 63.2 (1996): 138-152.
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The Littoral Zone |
Environmental Justice Reader |
Coyote in the Maze |
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Creative Non-fiction and Journalism
"The Tame and the Wild: Excursion and
Rant." Puerto del Sol (Spring 2003): 47-56.
"Pockets of Stones." Southwestern American Literature 27.1 (2001): 51-53.
"Telling the Stories of Who We Are: Thoughts
on the Regional Literary Scene."
Desert Exposure Mar. 2000. 4.
"A
Black Range Christmas Tree." Weber Studies 17.1
(1999): 94-105.
"A Beginner's Mind." Organization & Environment 11.2 (1998): 207-211.
Additional Publications
Thirty five book reviews in scholarly and popular
periodicals.
Forty poems (mostly haiku) in various venues.
Twenty four academic conference papers.
Professional Affiliations
Association for
the Study of Literature and the Environment (I am the awards co-ordinator for the ASLE book
awards.)
Western
Literature Association
American
Association for Australian Literary Studies
Loren Eiseley
Society (I'm on the board of
directors.)