KAREN L. KILCUP is Elizabeth Rosenthal Excellence Professor of English, Environmental & Sustainability Studies, and Women's & Gender Studies at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Her many books include Fallen Forests: Emotion, Embodiment, and Ethics in American Women's Environmental Writing, 1781-1924 (Georgia), Teaching Nineteenth-Century American Poetry and Soft Canons: American Women Writers and Masculine Tradition.