William Rossi (Associate Professor)
Statement
Current research: Thoreau and nineteenth-century evolutionary discourse; senses of place and displacement in American literature.
Publications
Editor, Henry Thoreau, Wild Apples and Other Natural History Essays. (Univeristy of Georgia, 2002); "Thoreau's Transcendental Ecocentrism" in Thoreau's Sense of Place, ed. Richard Schneider (University of Iowa, 2001); "Emerson, Nature and Natural Science" in Ralph Waldo Emerson: Historical Essays, ed. Joel Myerson (Oxford, 2001); co-editor, Henry D. Thoreau, Journal 3: 1848-1851 and Journal 6 (Princeton, 1990 and 2000); "Poetry and Progress: Thoreau, Lyell, and the Geological Principles of A Week," American Literature 66, 1994: 275-300.
