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 earned his BA in English from Allegheny College in 1998 and received his MA (2000) and PhD (2006) from The Ohio State University, specializing in nineteenth-century American literature. Titled "'What a Place to Live': Home and Wilderness in Domestic American Travel Literature, 1835-1883," his dissertation examined the negotiations between self and nature in the writings of Caroline Kirkland, Washington Irving, Henry David Thoreau, Helen Hunt Jackson, and others. He is also the author of an article on J. California Cooper's novel Family, published in MELUS. In addition to his research, he is in the process of climbing all 4000-foot summits in New Hampshire's White Mountains.