Primary texts:
Books:
- Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness (1968)
- David E. Nye, America as a Second Creation (2004).
- Henry David Thoreau, Walking (1862/2007)
- Yi-Fu Tuan, Topophilia: A Study of Environmental Perception, Attitudes, and Values (1990).
Additional Books for M.A. students:
- Lawrence Buell, The Future of Environmental Criticism: Environmental Crisis and Literary Imagination (2005)
- Robert J. Brulle, Agency, Democracy, and Nature: The U.S. Environmental Movement from a Critical Theory Perspective (2000)
Articles/Book Chapters:
- Sherman Paul, “Birds, Landscape, Place, Cosmicity,” Iowa Review 11: Fall, 1980, 44-61.
- H. Daniel Peck, “Introduction,” The Green American Tradition, LSU Press, 1989, 1-14.
- Alfred Kazin, “Afterword: Sherman Paul and the Romance with America,” The Green American Tradition, LSU Press, 1989, 341-345.
- Lawrence Buell, “American Pastoral Ideology Reappraised,” American Literary History, Vol. 1, No. 1 (Spring, 1989), 1-29
- John M. Meyer, “Does Environmentalism Have a Future?” Dissent (Spring 2005).
Additional Articles for M.A. students:
- Donald Worster, “Transformations of the Earth,” The Journal of American History, Vol. 76, No. 4 (Mar., 1990),1087-1106
- Alfred W. Crosby, “An Enthusiastic Second,” The Journal of American History, Vol. 76, No. 4 (Mar., 1990), 1107-1110
- Richard White, “Environmental History, Ecology, and Meaning,” The Journal of American History, Vol. 76, No. 4 (Mar., 1990), 1111-1116
- Carolyn Merchant, “Gender and Environmental History,” The Journal of American History, Vol. 76, No. 4 (Mar., 1990), 1117-1121.
- William Cronon, “Modes of Prophecy and Production: Placing Nature in History,” The Journal of American History, Vol. 76, No. 4 (Mar., 1990), pp. 1122-1131.
- Donald Worster, “Seeing Beyond Culture,” The Journal of American History, Vol. 76, No. 4 (Mar., 1990), 1142-1147.
Newspaper Articles:
- Craig Leisher, “Off the Grid, Where the Living Is Good,” New York Times, 10 August 2011.
- Justin Gillis, “Temperature Rising: A Warming Planet Struggles to Feed Itself,” New York Times, 4 June 2011.
- Anne Perkins, “Are big farms the key to African development?” The Guardian, 6 April 2009
- Emily Beament, “[UK] Farmers to be paid for conserving landscapes,” The Independent, 18 December 2008.
Films:
- How The Earth Made Us (2011, BBC documentary)
- The New World (2005)
- Deliverance (1972)
- The Mission (1986)
- Des Hommes et Des Dieux (“Of Gods and Men”) (2010)
- Avatar (2009)