Owen Grumbling, Ph.D.

grumblingProfessor of Literature and Environmental Studies
Phone: (207) 602-2245
Email: ogrumbling@une.edu


Courses
    The Nature Writers
     
    Environmental Advocacy
     
    Seminar on Edward Abbey
     
    Contemporary Nature Writing
     
    The Lyrics of Bob Dylan
     
    Practicum on Land Conservation

Education
    B.S. - English, Saint Vincent College
     
    M.S. - British and American Literature, Northeastern University
     
    Ph.D. - British and Romantic Literature, University of New Hampshire


Research Interests
    Literature of Edward Abbey
     
    Wilderness Literature
     
    Policy Issues on Land Conservation
     
    Environmental Advocacy
     
    Literature of William Wordsworth and the British Romantics


Selected Publications
    Grumbling, Vernon Owen.  “Down the River with Edward Abbey.”  North Dakota Quarterly. 71 (Summer, 2004) 30-42.
     
    Grumbling, Vernon Owen. "Nature Writing," The Encyclopedia of New England.  Yale University Press, 2005.
     
    Grumbling, Vernon Owen. "Literature." In Greening the College Curriculum. Jonathan Cullett & Stephen Karakashian, eds. Island Press. 1996.
     
    Grumbling, Vernon Owen. Book Review of Johnathan Bate, Romantic Ecology: Wordsworth and the Environmental Tradition. Forest and Conservation History. Spring, 1993.
     
    Morgan, P., J. Carter, O. Grumbling, J. Lemons & E. Saboski. "A Biology Learning Community: An Integrated Approach to Introductory Biology." Journal of College Science Teaching. Dec/Jan 1992-1993.
     
    Grumbling, Vernon Owen. "The Nature Writers: Using a Radical Literary Tradition to Question Environmental Attitudes." Environmental History Review. 16(Spring, 1992) 151-157.
     
    Lemons, John, Vernon Owen Grumbling, et al. "An Integrated Learning Community to Increase Environmental Awareness." Environmental History Review 16(Spring, 1992) 64-76.
     
    Grumbling, Vernon Owen, et al. "Teaching Nature Literature in a Science Learning Community: Merging the Two Cultures." College English Association Critic (CEA Critic). Fall, '91.
     
    Begiebing, Robert J. & Owen Grumbling. The Literature of Nature: The British and American Traditions (a critical/historical anthology of poetry, fiction, and essays). Plexus Publishing Inc., 1990.
     
    Grumbling, Vernon Owen. "Teaching Environmental Literature in the Snow." Teaching Environmental Literature. Frederick Wage, ed. New York: Modern Language Association, 1985.


Selected Presentations
    "Nature Writing: The Subversive Tradition," Fall Lecture Series, Wells (ME) National Estuarine Research Reserve, September 25, 2003.
     
    "Honoring the Earth." Featured Address, Honors Convocation, Saint Vincent College, Latrobe, Pennsylvania, April, 1993. (Invited Address)
     
    "Literary Interpretations of The Edge of the Sea." Lowell Lecture Series. New England Aquarium. Boston, April, 1992. (Invited Address).
     
    "Teaching Nature Literature in the Context of American Culture." Opening address at the Annual Meeting of the New England Society for American Studies. April, 1991. (Invited Address.)
     
    Respondent to Keynote Speaker, Mr. William McKibben. Annual Meeting of the New England Society for American Studies. April, 1991. (Invited Address.)


Other Interests
    Hiking
     
    Biking
     
    Canoeing
     
    Gardening
     
    Local Environmental Advocacy
     
    Bob Dylan
   
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