- T. Scott McMillin
- Associate Professor (1992) and Chair, Department of English (2005)
Rice 24
Spring 2008 Office Hours: M 2:00-4:00, Th 2:00-4:00 & by appointment
(440) 775-6726
B.A., University of Michigan, 1983- M.A., Syracuse University, 1989
- Ph.D., Syracuse University, 1992
- M.A., Syracuse University, 1989
19th- & 20th-century American literature; philosophical approaches to literature; nature writing; literary theory.
"Overlooking, Rivers, Looking Over," in Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture 6.3 (Summer 2006).
“The Meaning of Rivers,” book-length project in progress.
“A Musketaquid-tól a Concord-ig és vissza (Thoreau transzecendentális folyóélménye), trans. Tóta Péter Benedek, Mühely: A Folyó (Fall 2005), 86-90.
“Emerson, Ralph Waldo,” Encyclopedia of New England Culture, eds. Feintuch and Watters, Yale University Press (2005), 982-83.
“Thoreau, Henry David,” Encyclopedia of New England Culture, eds. Feintuch and Watters, Yale University Press (2005), 1031-32.
“Frolic Architecture: Building on Emerson’s Drift,” Thresholds 26 (Spring 2003), 8-13.
Our Preposterous Use of Literature: Emerson & the Nature of Reading, University of Illinois Press (2000).
Re-print of "The Best Read Naturalist? Burroughs, Emerson, & the Nature of the Text," in Sharp Eyes: John Burroughs and American Nature Writing, ed. Charlotte Zoë Walker, Syracuse University Press (2000), 51-63. (First printing: Oneonta, NY: SUNY Press, 1995, 62-75.)
"Reading Between: Time, Text, & the Preposterous," Layers (CD-ROM, Spring 1998).
“Writing Nature's Journal,” Stories in the Land: Explorations of a Watershed (Spring 1998).
“Re: Nature,” Watershed (Spring 1997).
"Extra Vagant Education: Teaching Walden in the Context of Transcendentalism," Approaches to Teaching Thoreau's Walden and Other Works, ed. Richard J. Schneider (New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1996), 48-55.
"Consuming Text: Transubstantiation & Ingestion in the Interpretation of Emerson," Criticism (Winter 1996), 85-114.
"Reading Nature Writing," Surfaces Vol. IV (Spring 1994), 4-18.
ENGL 141 (13954), Rivers in American Literature, MWF 11:00-11:50 + Th 7:00-10:00 pm
ENGL 451 (12905), Honors Project, TBA
LOND 940 (7425), Organizing Nature in British Culture, TBA
LOND 941 (7426), Travel, Writing, and English Traits, TBA
LOND 450(7427), Poetry, Place, Ecocriticism, TBA
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