James Warren

Visiting Professor

Overview

James Perrin Warren has taught American literature and environmental studies at Washington and Lee University for over thirty years.  His scholarship has depended especially on archival research and dwelt upon interdisciplinary subjects.  He is the author of three monographs on nineteenth-century American culture, focusing on writers like Walt Whitman, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Elizabeth Peabody, Margaret Fuller, Frederick Douglass, John Muir, John Burroughs, and Theodore Roosevelt. Recently he has published a scholarly edition of Mary Austin’s collected poems, The Road to the Spring (Syracuse UP, 2014).  Other Country: Barry Lopez and the Community of Artists is his fifth book, forthcoming from University of Arizona Press in Fall 2015.  He is currently finishing a book about the poems and essays of Alaska writer John Haines.   

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