James Weaver Affiliation: Faculty Title: Assistant Professor Office: Barney-Davis 206 Email: weaverj@denison.edu Phone: 740-587-5794 B.A. in English from Allegheny College, 1998 M.A. in English from The Ohio State University, 2000 Ph.D. in English from The Ohio State University, 2006

James Weaver received his BA (1998) in English from Allegheny College and earned his MA (2000) and PhD (2006) from Ohio State University, specializing in nineteenth-century American literature. He joined the Denison faculty as a visiting assistant professor in 2006 before becoming an assistant professor in 2011. Weaver’s research focuses especially on the intersections of literature and the environment. He is currently working on several articles about American travel literature and nationalism in the 1850s-1880s, and will soon begin work on a project exploring social media and contemporary narratives of long-distance hiking. In addition to teaching courses in first-year writing and surveys and seminars in American literature, he often teaches literature courses cross-listed with Denison’s environmental studies program.