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Faculty Profile Last Modified Time: 12:11:22 PM Fri, 13 Aug 2010   Contact Information James David Taylor Lecturer-English     1220 Anna Street, Denton, TX 76201        david.taylor@unt.edu     (940) 367-8720    Associated Profiles Professional Preparation Courses Taught By Semester Appointments Publications Editorships Lectures/Symposia News Presentations and Projects Peer Reviewer Activities Teaching Committees Memberships Honors and Recognitions Professional Community Engagement Additional Information  Professional Preparation  Degree Major/Thesis/Dissertation Institution Year  Doctor of Philosophy English,Specialization: Creative Nonfiction & pre-1900 American Literature University of Tennessee 1988  Master of Arts English; minor, Philosophy University of North Texas 1986  Bachelor of Arts English; minor, Philosophy. University of North Texas 1984  Courses Taught By Semester --- Organized Classes will be uploaded from THECB Data file Semester Subject Course Number Section Course Name Calculated Semester Credit Hours Syllabus   Fall 2010 ENGL 1310 014 College Writing I   Download Syllabus Fall 2010 ENGL 1310 004 College Writing I   Download Syllabus Fall 2010 ENGL 1320 019 College Writing II   Download Syllabus Fall 2010 ENGL 2328 002 American Literature from 1870 to Present   Download Syllabus Spring 2010 ENGL 1320 20 College Writing II 72   Spring 2010 ENGL 1320 22 College Writing II 75   Spring 2010 ENGL 2327 3 American Literature to 1870 72   Spring 2010 ENGL 2327 5 American Literature to 1870 66    Appointments Duration (YYYY - YYYY or Present) Rank Department / School College / Office University / Company 2006-Present Lecturer English Department   University of North Texas 2004-2006 Academic Advisor   Honors College University of North Texas 2003-2004 Adjunct Philosophy & English Departments   University of North Texas 2001-2002 Research Associate Program in Community, Culture, and Environment   Northern Arizona University 2000-2001 Chair English Department   New Direction Learning Center, Keller ISD 2001 Adjunct Faculty Masters of Liberal Studies Program   Northern Arizona University 1999-2000 Associate Professor   Converse College   1994-2000 Assistant Professor & Undergraduate/Graduate Advisor   Converse College    Publications   Type AllBookBook reviewsPoemPersonal Essay Publications per page    1  2 3 4 5 6 7    Year Publication   Type yyyy Published Rev. of John Graves Busby and Dixon, eds Southwestern American Literature (). Book reviews yyyy Published Rev. of Poets on Place: Tales and Interviews from the Road  James David Taylor Matt White.Pfefferle, ISLE. Book reviews Forthcoming Accepted/In-press Restoring Home: Essays on Family and Place,Prose James David Taylor Lubbock, TX: Texas Tech University Press, Under contract Book Forthcoming Accepted/In-press South Carolina Nature Writers: 1860-1970,Prose James David Taylor Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press Book Forthcoming Accepted/In-press “Father’s Day.”, Creative Non-Fiction Essays James David Taylor Belonging, ed. by Carol Smallwood & Cynthia Brackett-Vincent Personal Essay  Editorships Duration (YYYY - YYYY or Present) Organization Position Classification 2007-Present A Southwest Nature Writing Series Series Editor UNT Press 2003-Present Environmental Ethics Reader   1995-Present ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment Editorial Board Member     Book Manuscripts (natural history and literature and environment) Reader University of North Texas Press, University of Texas Press, University of Nevada Press, University of Wisconsin Press, University Press of Florida, and University of South Carolina Press  Lectures/Symposia Year Title Role Organization 2008 “Finding Common Ground: Nature Writers Encounter Nature.” Invited Speaker Earth Day Presentation, Trinity University, San Antonio, TX, April 22 2008 “Re-Paddling the Brazos: 50 Years After John Graves.” Invited Speaker Common Experience Series, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX, Feb. 6 2008 Poetry Reading Invited Salon Mijangos, San Antonio 2007 “The Role of Narrative in Ecotuourism.” Invited Speaker North American Ecotourism Conference, Madison WS, Sept. 24-27 2007 Witnessing the Great Outdoors: A Symposium of Nature Writers Invited Speaker Tomball College, Houston, April 10 2007 Team Integrated Engineering Invited Inc. San Antonio 2006 Barnes & Noble   San Antonio 2006 Barnes & Noble Invited Denton 2006 Denton Women’s Club Invited   2006 Barnes & Noble Invited Austin 2006 The Open Book Invited Greenville, SC 2006 Barnes & Noble   San Antonio 2006 “The Necessity of Naturalists.” Keynote Speaker Texas Master Naturalist Program Annual Conference, Mo Ranch, October 20-22 2006 Texas Nature Writing Panelist Texas Book Festival, Austin, October 28-29 2005 Barnes & Noble   San Antonio 2005     Northern Arizona University 2005     St. Mary’s University 2004 "On Not Teaching Walden: A Roundtable Discussion." Panel Participant Thoreau Society Session, American Literature Association, San Francisco, May 27-30 2003 “Language in the Landscape: Possibilities for Literature in Environmental Work.” Invited Speaker Environmental Speaker Series, University of North Texas, February 14 2003 "Giving Up on Language: Why I Quit Reading Walden." Invited Speaker Northern Arizona University, June 11 2001 Authors Discuss River Writing. Panel Chair Association for the Study of Literature and Environment,Flagstaff, AZ, June 14-17 2001 The Way to Save a River is Through Art Panel Participant Shaping the Ecology of a City. Columbia, SC, March 26-27 1999 . Natural History and the American Literature Survey Panel Participant Association for the Study of Literature and Environment. Kalamazoo, MI, June 2-5 1998 The Production of South Carolina Naturalists: An Anthology Invited Speaker Thomas Cooper Society and the Institute for Southern Studies, University of South Carolina, Columbia, Dec. 3 1998 "Women and Men In and On Nature." Panel Chair The Philological Association of the Carolinas. Spartanburg, SC, March 19-21 1998 Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century South Carolina Naturalists Invited Speaker Greenville's Women's Club 1998 "Wilderness and Culture." Panel Chair The North American Interdisciplinary Conference on Community and Environment. Reno, NV, February 19-21 1997 Southern Landscapes: Heaven, Hell, or Hospital Invited Speaker Symposium sponsored by the McKissick Museum, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, September 1997 Literature and Environment Panel Chair Association for the Study of Literature and Environment Conference, Missoula, MT, June 1997 South Carolina: Histories in the Landscape Panel Chair . PCA/ACA Conference, San Antonio, TX, March 1996 "'nature's God': Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century South Carolina Naturalists." Guest Speaker Institute for Southern Studies, University of South Carolina, Columbia, February 1996 The Tradition of Southern Nature Writing Panel Chair Society for the Study of Southern Literature Conference, Richmond, VA, April 1995 Narrative Scholarship Panel Participant . Western Literature Association. Vancouver, Canada, October 1995 Landscape and Fiction Panel Chair Association for the Study of Literature and Environment. Fort Collins, CO, June 1994 Ecocriticism Panel Participant Western Literature Association. Salt Lake City, UT, October 1990 Reactions to Industrialism Panel Chair American Studies Association Tennessee-Kentucky Chapter. Murfreesburo, TN, March 31  News Articles All Things Considered, NPR about Pride of Place: A Contemporary Anthology of Texas Nature Writing Interviewed on All Things Considered, NPR about Pride of Place: A Contemporary Anthology of Texas Nature Writing, April 22, 2006. Http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5357543  Presentations and Projects   Presentations/Projects per page    1  2 3 4  Start Date End Date Presentation/Project   2002  “Rhetoric and Values.” Co-author,Society of Ecological Restoration. Tuscon, AZ, August, 5-9   2002  “Fighting Words: Rhetoric and Values in Ecological Conflicts.” Co-author,International Symposium on Society and Natural Resources. Bloomington, IN, June, 2002   2002  “Social Restoration: The Role of Arts in Ecological Restoration.” Texas Society of Ecological Restoration.Welasco, TX, October 4-6   2001  “A Catskills Dialogue.” Association for the Study of Literature and Environment. Flagstaff, AZ, June 14-17, 2001   1998  "'given in unmistakable language': Mary Rion's Ladies' Southern Florist." Sumter County Museum, March 12, 1998.  Peer Reviewer Activities Year Agency/Organization Field of Expertise 1996 Consultant for “Knowing Nature: Science in the South 1660 to 1860.”Exhibit. McKissick Museum, University of South Carolina    Teaching American Literature Survey   American Realism and Naturalism   American Romanticism   American Slave Narratives   Creative Writing (Creative Non-fiction Class)   Creativity and the Artistic Impulse (Honors Colloquium)   Eighteenth-century American Literature   Environmental Literature   Environmental Literature & Philosophy (Graduate Class)   Gendered Frontiers: Women’s and Men’s Views of the American Frontier   Good and Sustainable Societies (Graduate Liberal Studies Class)   Great Books II: Philosophy   Introduction to Environmental Issues (Honors Class)   Texas Environmental Issues in Literature (Honors Colloquium)   Utopia/Dystopia: Visions and Critiques of Society (Honors Colloquium)   World Literature Survey    Committees Duration (YYYY - YYYY or Present) Committee Position Classification 2004-2010 Executive Committee,Phi Kappa Phi Honors Society Treasurer University of North Texas 2002 Places of the Heart, delivered Keynote Address, “The ‘Here’ in There,” Organizing Committee Member   2001 Arts for Our Place: A Benefit for the Willow Bend Environmental Education Center, Organizing Committee Member    Memberships Duration (YYYY - YYYY or Present) Organization Position Classification   American Literature Association       Society for Ecological Restoration   (Texas Chapter)   Association for the Study of Literature and Environment       The Writer’s Garrett      Honors and Recognitions Year Title Honoring Organization 2000 Summer Research Fellow Belle W. Baruch Foundation, Hobcaw Barony Wildlife Refuge 1998,2008 Institute for Southern Studies Visiting Scholar Fellowship University of South Carolina 1995,1996 Institute for Southern Studies Visiting Scholar Fellowship University of South Carolina 1992 John C. Hodges Award for Teaching Excellence English Department, University of Tennessee  Professional Community Engagement Year Organization Role Type of Service 2008 University of North Texas Organizer Organizer, Writing a Wide Landscape: A Texas Nature Writing Conference 2007 University of North Texas Co-Organizer Co-organizer, Writing a Wide Land: A Texas Nature Writing Conference 2005 Northern Arizona University Visiting Writer Visiting Writer for Ecological Restoration and Community Arts Workshop. Program in Community, Culture, and Environment 2000 Lawson’s Fork Headwaters Festiva-A four-day arts festival including local children’s and adults’ arts. April 27-30l     1999-2002 Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ. Visiting Writer Visiting Writer for Poetry and Natural History Creative Writing Classes. Colorado Plateau Writing Workshop 1999 South Carolina Naturalists. Barnes and Noble     1998 South Carolina Naturalists. Piedmont Audubon Society Invited Speaker   1998 Spartanburg Human Relations Commission Panel Participant   1998 Arts and the Community, Spartanburg Arts Partnership Panel Participant   1996-1998 Converse College Faculty Senate   1996-1998 Environment and Popular Culture Sessions at the American Culture/Popular Culture Conference Area Chair    Additional Information Foreign Study Würtzburg, Germany (intensive language course at Bayerische Julius-Maximilians Universität) 2-5/89