City Wilds–Finding Nature around Tampa Bay

by | Oct 29, 2020 | Floridiana

I like my nature writing next to club listings and drink specials. Where nature writing should be. Ond and off, since 2016, Tampa Bay’s alt-weekly Creative Loafing has let me run a column called “City Wilds.” I write about trespassing onto Florida...

Florida Trail (Green Swamp East)

by | Jun 2, 2020 | Floridiana

With my colleagues Casey Blanton and Christopher Meindl, I am co-editing the Spring 2021 issue of the Journal of Florida Studies. Our theme is the Florida Trail, the long path that runs from Pensacola to Big Cypress in the Everglades. We seek contributions about the...

Early Florida Literature

by | May 24, 2020 | Floridiana

In 2013 the Florida Humanities Council brought to together scholars to discuss still unexplored paths in the state’s early history and life. Taking my place alongside far more revered scholars, I made a case for Florida’s vast colonial literature. The...