I teach courses in environmental literary studies, public humanities, and European literature of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, with emphases in media studies, information theory, and environmental history.  I also work with graduate students in community-facing projects in public arts and humanities.  I was Senior Personnel for the Blue-Green Action Platform, an NSF-funded program to share information and stories about nitrogen pollution with communities across different watersheds. I offer graduate courses in partnership with the Iowa Initiative for Sustainable Communities. 

My last book, Ossianic Unconformities: Bardic Poetry in the Industrial Age (Virginia UP, 2015), explores a modern quest to locate vestiges of ancient poetry in the landscapes of an industrial world.  My more recent publications continue to study the intersections of environmental and literary history in Scottish and French romanticism.  I have also published co-authored articles that apply methods from geographical information science, computational linguistics, and network modelling to the print archive of Scottish industrialization.