Menu Menu Daniel J. Philippon is associate professor of English at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, where he teaches courses in environmental literature, history, and ethics. He is the author of Conserving Words: How American Nature Writers Shaped the Environmental Movement (University of Georgia Press, 2004), the editor of The Friendship of Nature: A New England Chronicle of Birds and Flowers, by Mabel Osgood Wright (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999), and the co-editor of Coming into Contact: Explorations in Ecocritical Theory and Practice (University of Georgia Press, 2007) and The Height of Our Mountains: Nature Writing from Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains and Shenandoah Valley (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998).