Nels Christensen

Associate Professor of English

Education
  • B.A., California State University
  • M.A., Michigan State University
  • Ph.D., Michigan State University
Courses
  • Composition
  • The Idea of Nature and the Nature of Ideas
  • Writing in Place
  • Terrorists and Treehuggers
  • Black Environmentalism
Areas of Interest

Research and Writing: Ecocriticism, Ecopedagogy, and Environmental Creative Non-Fiction

Publications

Learning Where the Weather Is Real: Why Teaching in Bad Weather Is Good. Resilience: A Journal of the Environmental Humanities

Facing the Weather in James Galvin’s The Meadow and Cormac McCarthy’s The Road Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment (ISLE) 21:1 (Winter 2014)

Leaving a Trace Wake: Great Lakes Thought and Culture

The Art of Stillness Gray’s Sporting Journal

The Way You Do It Sports Afield