D. J. Lee is professor of literature and creative writing at Washington State University. She has edited three essay collections focused on the literature and history of the 19th century and authored three scholarly books, Romantic Liars: Obscure Women Who Became Imposters and Challenged an Empire (Macmillan 2006); Literature, Science, and Exploration in the Romantic Era: Bodies of Knowledge (Cambridge 2004); and Slavery and the Romantic Imagination (UPenn 2002). She has received a National Endowment for the Humanities, an American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship, and the Susanne M. Glasscock Humanities Book Prize for Interdisciplinary Scholarship. Lee’s personal essays have appeared in Narrative, Vela, and the Montreal Review. Currently, she is editing a collection of essays called The Land Speaks and completing a memoir about the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness of Idaho and Montana. Twitter handle: @debbiejeanlee
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES
Storyteller: An Interview with Terry Tempest Williams
D. J. Lee interviews Terry Tempest Williams....
Lyric Tourism
Joni Tevis on environmental apocalypse, ecotourism, and how lyric can make sense of landscape....
Ode to Animals
“Human beings are degrading ecosystems at a rate unprecedented in human history,” Deming writes....
Scatterings
After his wife tragically dies in a canoeing accident, Gary Ferguson returns her ashes to the wilderness....
The Longing of the Collector
D.J. Lee on Curiosity’s Cats: Writers on Research. Edited by Bruce Joshua Miller....
Restoration and Ritual
“The bitchiest mares make the best mothers,” he says…....
