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William Rossi

Professor Emeritus
English
rossiw@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-3955

Statement

I work on nineteenth-century American literature and culture with particular research interests in New England Transcendentalism, history of science (especially evolutionary discourse), environmental writing, and "place studies."

Publications

Recent publications include, “Making Walden and Its Sandbank,” Concord Saunterer Vol. 30 n.s. (2022), 10–58; https://digitalthoreau.org/making-walden-and-its-sandbank (posted May 5, 2023); “Thoreau’s Multiple Modernities,” in Thoreauvian Modernities: Transatlantic Conversations on an American Icon, ed. François Specq, Michel Granger, and Laura Dassow Walls (Georgia, 2013); "Evolutionary Theory" in The Oxford Handbook of Transcendentalism, ed. Joel Myerson, Sandra Harbert Petrulionis, and Laura Dassow Walls (Oxford, 2010); Emerson and Thoreau: Figures of Friendship, ed., with John T. Lysaker (Indiana, 2010); and "Performing Loss, Elegy, and Transcendental Friendship," New England Quarterly 81 (2008), 252-77.

Teaching

I teach courses at all levels of the English curriculum, including lower- and upper-division undergraduate courses in American and environmental literature as well as graduate seminars.