Edited Volumes

Appalachian Ecocriticism and the Paradox of Place (co-editor with Laura Wright), 2023, University of Georgia Press. I co-author the introduction and contribute the scholarly essay “An Ecofeminist Reading of Trampoline as Insight into Appalachian Oppression” to the collection (listed below).

Mountains Piled upon Mountains: Appalachian Nature Writing in the Anthropocene (editor), 2019, West Virginia University Press. I write the introduction and contribute a nonfiction essay “Uprooted” to the collection.

Special Issues

Special Issue of the Journal of Appalachian Studies: Speculative Fabulation: Queering Appalachian Futurisms, co-edited with Z. Zane McNeill, June 2022. I co-author the introduction and contribute two book reviews and one “community note” (listed below)

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

“Another Anthropocene: Climate Change, the Anthropocene, and Coastal Indigenous Poetry,” special issue of American Literatures on Living and Dying in the Anthropocene: Responses in Contemporary Literature from the Western Hemisphere. Ed. Brian Railsback, forthcoming.

“Gothic Realism in Charles Dodd White’s Short Fiction,” Iron Mountain Review, forthcoming.

“Water As Memory, Water as Kin: A Hydrological Analysis of Hogan’s Solar Storms and Trethewey’s Beyond Katrina,” ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, 2024.

“The Politics of Recognition and the Power of Place in Lumbee Women’s Poetry,” special issue of North Carolina Literary Review on Native American Literature of North Carolina. Ed. Kirsten Squint, vol. 32, 2023, 88-105.

“Blue Balls: Masculinity and Hypothermia in the Short Stories of Ron Rash” special issue of The Journal of Short Story in English. Eds. Frédérique Spill and Randall Wilhelm, vol. 74, 2021, 123-136.

“‘Wildness Was Nothing to Admire’: African American Environmental Thought and the Importance of Place in Stephanie Powell Watts’ No One is Coming to Save Us,” North Carolina Literary Review, vol. 28, 2019, 19-31.

Book Chapters

“Unsilencing Indigeneity: Appalachian Studies, Appalachian Ecologies, and the Continuation of Settler Colonialism,” Deviant Hollers: Queering Appalachian Ecologies for a Sustainable Future, Eds. Zane McNeill and Rebecca Scott. University Press of Kentucky, 2024, 79-104.

“Dreaming a Decolonized Climate: Indigenous Technologies and Relations of Class and Kinship in Cherie Dimaline’s The Marrow Thieves,” Cli-fi and Class: Socioeconomic Justice in Contemporary American Climate Fiction. Eds. Debra Rosenthal and Jason de Lara Molesky. University of Virginia Press, 2023, 63-78.

“An Ecofeminist Reading of Trampoline as Insight into Appalachian Oppression,” Appalachian Ecocriticism and the Paradox of Place. Eds. Laura Wright and Jessica Cory, University of Georgia Press, 2023, 129-144.

“A Tale of Two Pities: Life in a Dual NTTF Household” (co-authored with John McHone), Speaking Up, Speaking Out: Lived Experiences of Non Tenure Track Faculty in Writing Studies. Eds. Rachel Sanchez, Meg McGuire, and Jessica Edwards, Utah State University Press, 2021, 119-130.

Non-Peer Reviewed Scholarly Journal Contributions

“Taking PRIDE in One’s Community: How Local Rural Pride Events Nurture Queer Futurity, An Interview with Travis A. Rountree,” Journal of Appalachian Studies, vol. 28, no. 1, June 2022, 88-96. Community note.

Book Reviews

Rev. of Reading, Writing, and Queer Survival: Affects, Matterings, and Literacies Across Appalachia by Caleb Pendygraft, Journal of Appalachian Studies, forthcoming

Rev. of Kings of Coweetsee and The Woman with the Stone Knife, both by Dale Neal, North Carolina Literary Review, forthcoming

Rev. of In Plena Vita—The Full Life: Collected poems of Timothy Russell edited by Marc Harshman and Larry Smith, Pine Mountain Sand & Gravel, forthcoming

Rev. of The Night the Rain Had Nowhere to Go by William Woolfitt, Change Seven, July 2024

Rev. of Even as We Breathe by Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle, Appalachian Journal: A Regional Studies Review, July 2024

Rev. of In Plena Vita—The Full Life: Collected poems of Timothy Russell edited by Marc Harshman and Larry Smith, Appalachian Journal, April 2024

Rev. of The Life and Times of Hannah Crafts: The True Story of The Bondwoman's Narrative by Gregg Hecimovich, North Carolina Literary Review, April 2024

Rev. of Primer by Dan Beachy-Smith and Kylan Rice, Annulet: A Journal of Poetics, October 2023

Rev. of Down Here We Come Up by Sara Johnson Allen, Tupelo Quarterly, September 2023

Rev. of Night Wing over Metropolitan Area by John Hoppenthaler, Kestrel, August 2023

Rev. of The Best of the Adirondack Tales by W. H. H. Murray, H-Net, August 2023

Rev. of Appalachian Pastoral: Mountain Excursions, Aesthetic Visions, and the Antebellum Travel Narrative by Michael S. Martin, ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, June 2023

Rev. of As Is by Julia Spicher Kasdorf, Still: The Journal, June 2023

Rev. of Reaching the Shore of the Sea of Fertility by Laura Anna Reeve, Change Seven, April 2023

Rev. of Hillbilly Madonna by Sara Moore Wagner, Still: The Journal, October 2022

Rev. of Y’all Means All: The Emerging Voices Queering Appalachia by Z. Zane McNeill, Journal of Appalachian Studies, June 2022

Rev. of The Prettiest Star by Carter Sickels, Journal of Appalachian Studies, June 2022

Rev. of Magnolia Canopy Otherworld by Erin Carlyle, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, Fall 2021

Rev. of Postcolonial Love Poem by Natalie Diaz, Carolina Quarterly, June 2021

Rev. of A Place So Deep Inside America It Can’t be Seen by Kari Gunter-Seymour, Still: The Journal, February 2021

Rev. of Anthropocene Blues by John Lane, The Goose, June 2019.

Rev. of Shale Play: Poems and Photographs from the Fracking Fields by Julia Spicher Kasdorf and Steven Rubin, Appalachian Heritage, Winter 2019.

Rev. of WWJD and Other Poems by Savannah Sipple, Appalachian Heritage, Spring 2019

Rev. of The Last Ballad by Wiley Cash, Appalachian Heritage, Winter 2018.

Digital Humanities

ed., “A Small River or Creek” by Quale-U-Quah, in The Envious Lobster: A Collection of American Children’s Nature Writing, 1824-1923, http://uncglibraries.com/enviouslobster/a-small-river-or-creek/

ed., “At Home with Nature” by Charles A. Eastman, in The Envious Lobster: A Collection of American Children’s Nature Writing, 1824-1923, http://uncglibraries.com/enviouslobster/at-home-with-nature/

ed., “Battle of the Owls” by Joseph M. Poepoe, in The Envious Lobster: A Collection of American Children’s Nature Writing, 1824-1923, http://uncglibraries.com/enviouslobster/battle-of-the-owls/

 ed., “First Efforts at Rhyming” by “Two Little Indian Girls,” in The Envious Lobster: A Collection of American Children’s Nature Writing, 1824-1923, http://uncglibraries.com/enviouslobster/first-efforts-at-rhyming/

 ed., “How Morning Star Lost Her Fish” by Mabel Powers, in The Envious Lobster: A Collection of American Children’s Nature Writing, 1824-1923, http://uncglibraries.com/enviouslobster/how-morning-star-lost-her-fish/

 ed., “Our Young Folks” by The Indian, in The Envious Lobster: A Collection of American Children’s Nature Writing, 1824-1923, http://uncglibraries.com/enviouslobster/our-young-folks/

 ed., “Playing and Haying” by Eugene Dutton, in The Envious Lobster: A Collection of American Children’s Nature Writing, 1824-1923, http://uncglibraries.com/enviouslobster/playing-and-haying/

 ed., “Stars” by Ga-Yu-Ga, in The Envious Lobster: A Collection of American Children’s Nature Writing, 1824-1923, http://uncglibraries.com/enviouslobster/stars/

 ed., “The Eating of the Poi,” traditional Hawaiian song, in The Envious Lobster: A Collection of American Children’s Nature Writing, 1824-1923, http://uncglibraries.com/enviouslobster/the-eating-of-the-poi/

 ed., “The Indian Girl” by Zitkála-Šá, in The Envious Lobster: A Collection of American Children’s Nature Writing, 1824-1923, http://uncglibraries.com/enviouslobster/the-indian-girl/

 ed., “The Raven and The Fish Hawk” by Chief William Shelton, in The Envious Lobster: A Collection of American Children’s Nature Writing, 1824-1923, http://uncglibraries.com/enviouslobster/the-raven-and-the-fish-hawk/

 ed., “Tradition of the Crows” by Louis George, in The Envious Lobster: A Collection of American Children’s Nature Writing, 1824-1923, http://uncglibraries.com/enviouslobster/tradition-of-the-crows/

 ed., “Ye Old Council House” by Eagle Eye Thompson, in The Envious Lobster: A Collection of American Children’s Nature Writing, 1824-1923, http://uncglibraries.com/enviouslobster/ye-old-council-house/

 ed., “Zunian Lullaby” transcribed and harmonized by Carlos Troyer, in The Envious Lobster: A Collection of American Children’s Nature Writing, 1824-1923, http://uncglibraries.com/enviouslobster/zunian-lullaby/

 “Cherokee Female Seminary,” “Dutton, Eugene,” “Eastman, Charles Alexander,” “George, Louis,” “Poepoe, Joseph Mokuohai,” “Powers, Mabel,” Shelton, Chief William,” “Troyer, Carlos,” “Zitkála-Šá,” Author Biographies in The Envious Lobster: A Collection of American Children’s Nature Writing, 1824-1923, http://uncglibraries.com/enviouslobster/author-biographies/

Conference Presentations and Invited Talks

“Environmental Kinship and Community Recognition in Lumbee Literature,” American Studies Association, Baltimore, MD, November 2024.

“How Can Appalachian Journal Support Trans-Mountainous Connections?” International Mountain Studies Conference, Boone, NC, October 2024 *Proposal accepted, but conference cancelled due to Hurricane Helene damage

“Environmental Kinship and Community Recognition in Lumbee Literature,” Association for the Study of American Indian Literatures, virtual conference, April 2024.

“Moving (in the) Mountains: Disability and the Evolution of Place,” Appalachian Studies Association, Cullowhee, NC, March 2024.

“Expansive Environmentalism in the 19th century: Sarah Winnemucca, Hannah Crafts, and Tesseracting Planes,” Southeastern Association of Cultural Studies, Charlotte, NC, February 2024.

“Ecologies of Place and Resilience,” Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE) Spotlight, virtual event, February 2024.

“Helping Students with Severe Mental Health Challenges,” Rhetoric and Composition Institute event held by the English Department at Appalachian State University, Boone, NC, February 2024.

“Dreaming a Decolonized Climate: Indigenous Technologies and Relations of Class and Kinship in Cherie Dimaline’s The Marrow Thieves,” Modern Language Association, Philadelphia, PA, January 2024.

“Natasha Trethewey and Being Native to Coastal Mississippi,” South Atlantic Modern Language Association annual conference, Atlanta, GA, November 2023.

“Engaging TEK in Appalachia,” Association for the Study of Literature and Environment and Association for Environmental Studies and Sciences, joint biennial conference, virtual presentation, event held in Portland, OR, July 2023

“Doing Scholarship on the Non-Tenure Track,” Hills and Hollers Non-Tenure Track virtual conference, June 2023

“The Politics of Recognition and the Power of Place in Lumbee Women’s Poetry,” Southeast Native Studies Conference, Pembroke, NC, March 2023

“Reading the Archive for Early Indigenous Children’s Literature,” New Directions in Indigenous Book History virtual symposium, March 2023

“The Importance of Including Indigenous Literature in Appalachian Studies,” Appalachian Studies Association annual conference, Athens, OH, March 2023

"August Wilson's Place in Affrilachian and Appalachian Literature,” August Wilson Society biennial colloquium, Pittsburgh, PA, March 2023

“The Politics of Recognition and the Power of Place in Lumbee Women’s Poetry,” Southeastern Association of Cultural Studies annual conference, Charlotte, NC, February 2023

“Poetry Forms, Their Craft, and Their Uses,” undergraduate poetry workshop taught by Austin Hart (Dept. of English), Shaw University (invited talk), Raleigh, NC (via Zoom), October 2022

“Appalachian Literature’s Global Connections,” undergraduate course titled “Regional and Ethnic Literature” taught by Dr. Sudakar Jamkhandi (Dept. of English), Bluefield State College (invited talk), Bluefield, WV (via Google Meet), October 2022

“Recovering Native American Children’s Nature Writing,” Digital Humanities Collaborative of North Carolina, virtual presentation, event held in Charlotte, NC, April 2022

“Microcosms of Appalachia,” undergraduate biology/ecology study abroad students taught by instructors Brent Martin, John Lane, and Lilly Knoepp, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (invited talk), Highlands Biological Station Study Abroad Program, Highlands, NC, November 2021                                  

“A Balancing Act: Navigating Writing, Teaching, and Scholarship,” graduate course titled “Creative Writing as a Profession” taught by John Hoppenthaler (Dept. of English), East Carolina University (invited talk), Greenville, NC (via WebEx), October 2021

“Home is What You Make It: Remapping, Spatial Sovereignty, and Sense of Place in Lehua Taitano’s A Bell Made of Stones,” Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment, biennial virtual conference, July-August 2021.

“Queerness in Appalachian Lit: Interviews,” Appalachian Studies Association annual virtual conference, March 2021.

“Appalachian Literature’s Global Connections,” undergraduate course titled “Regional and Ethnic Literature” taught by Dr. Sudakar Jamkhandi (Dept. of English), Bluefield State College (invited talk), Bluefield, WV (via Zoom), October 2020

“Fighting Homogenization and Queer Representation in Appalachian Literature,” Appalachian Studies Association annual conference, Lexington, KY March 2020. *Accepted but conference cancelled due to COVID-19

“Appalachian Environmental Writing,” graduate course titled “Climate Change Science and Art” taught by Dr. Katherine Martin (Dept. of Forestry and Natural Resources), North Carolina State University (invited talk), Raleigh, NC (via Skype), January 2020

“Tommy Pico’s Questioning of ‘Traditional Indianness’,” South Atlantic Modern Language Association annual conference, Atlanta, GA, November 2019.

“Gothic Realism in Charles Dodd White’s Short Fiction,” Emory and Henry Literary Festival (invited talk), Emory, VA, October 2019

Bluefield State College, Voices of the Mountains event (invited talk/reading from Mountains Piled upon Mountains), Bluefield, WV, September 2019.

“The Frozen Deaths of Ron Rash,” Appalachian Studies Association annual conference, Asheville, NC, March 2019.

“Environmental Thought and the Importance of Place in Stephanie Powell Watts’s No One is Coming to Save Us,” South Atlantic Modern Language Association annual conference, Birmingham, AL, November 2018.

“Robert Gipe’s Trampoline and Appalachian Ecofeminism,” Appalachian Studies Association annual conference, Cincinnati, OH, April 2018.

“Seeking the Supernatural in South American Lit,” Pop Culture Association/American Studies Association annual joint conference, San Diego, CA, April 2017.      

“Mindfulness in Language,” (with Carrie Murray) North Carolina Teaching and Learning Association annual conference, Asheville, NC, March 2017

“Merging Appalachia and Ecocriticism: The Examination of a Subgenre," Appalachian Studies Association annual conference, Blacksburg, VA, March 2017.

“From Gatewood to Davis: How Technology Changes the Way We Write About the Appalachian Trail,” Humanities Education Research Association annual conference, San Francisco, CA, April 2015.

“Nature and Environmental Poetry,” 6th-12th grade students taught by instructor Kevin Dublin, Duke Young Writer’s Camp, Durham, NC, June 2014

“An Introduction to Reading and Interpreting Poetry,” 12th grade AP English course taught by Brandon Paul, Northside High School, Pinetown, NC, December 2011

“Here, And/Or There: Having Two Writing Centers on Campus,” Southeastern Writing Center Association annual conference, Tuscaloosa, AL, February 2011.

Selected Conference & Panel Administration

Chair, “Appalachian Environmental Creative Nonfiction” panel, Appalachian Studies Association annual conference, Cullowhee, NC March 2024

Chair, “Appalachian Writing Communities” panel, Rooted in the Mountains annual symposium, Cullowhee, NC, September 2023

Moderator, “Lost and Found in Indigenous America” panel, Greensboro Bound Literary Festival, Greensboro, NC, May 2023

Chair, “Appalachian Mental Health Reflected in Literature” panel, Rooted in the Mountains annual symposium, Cullowhee, NC, September 2022

Chair, “Queer Appalachian Literature” panel, Appalachian Studies Association annual conference, virtual, March 2021

Chair, “Reading from Mountains Piled upon Mountains” panel, Appalachian Studies Association annual conference, Asheville, NC, March 2021

Chair, “Eco-Centered Modes and Frameworks of Appalachian Literature” panel, Appalachian Studies Association annual conference, Cincinnati, OH, April 2018