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Known for
  
Literary Nonfiction

Name
  
Paul Lindholdt

Role
  
Author


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Fields
  
Literature, Creative Writing

Institutions
  
Eastern Washington UniversityUniversity of Idaho

Notable awards
  
Washington State Book Award, 2012

Books
  
In Earshot of Water: Notes from the Columbia Plateau

Paul lindholdt s introduction to literature


Paul Lindholdt is an American author, ecocritic, editor, and professor from Seattle, Washington. Currently at Eastern Washington University, Lindholdt received a 2012 Washington State Book Award for his ecological memoir In Earshot of Water: Notes from the Columbia Plateau.

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Professorship

Lindholdt began his career as a lecturer at Idaho State University from 1984–87 and then continued as a lecturer at Western Washington University from 1987–90. In 1990 he took a position at the University of Idaho as a visiting assistant professor until migrating back to his home state of Washington as a lecturer at Eastern Washington University in 1994. He was promoted to Assistant Professor (1997–2003), Associate Professor (2003–07), and Professor of English from 2007–present. In 2014, students ranked him the sixth most-popular teacher at his university.

Awards and honors

  • Washington State Book Award for Biography/Memoir, 2012, In Earshot of Water: Notes from the Columbia Plateau (University of Iowa Press, 2011).
  • Whitworth University Endowed speaker, 2013.
  • Hilliard Endowment in the Humanities speaker, University of Nevada-Reno, 2010.
  • First Place and Second Place, Society of Professional Journalists, Region 10, Energy and Environmental Reporting, 2000.
  • Leonard Steinberg Memorial Prize, Academy of American Poets, Pennsylvania State University, 1984.

    • Books

  • Explorations in Ecocriticism: Advocacy, Bioregionalism, and Visual Design, Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2015.
  • In Earshot of Water: Notes from the Columbia Plateau, Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2011.
  • The Canoe and the Saddle: A Critical Edition. [1862.] Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2006.
  • Holding Common Ground: The Individual and Public Lands in the American West. Introduction and edited with Derrick Knowles. Spokane: Eastern Washington University Press, 2005.
  • History and Folklore of the Cowichan Indians. [1901.] Spokane: Marquette Books, 2004. Edited and introduction.
  • Cascadia Wild: Protecting an International Ecosystem. Edited with Mitch Friedman. Bellingham, Washington: Greater Ecosystem Alliance, 1993.
  • John Josselyn, Colonial Traveler: A Critical Edition of 'Two Voyages to New-England'." Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 1988.

    • Ecocriticism and Historiography

  • "The Trumpets of Solitude." Terrain.org June 2015.
  • "A Warrior's Portrait." Spokesman-Review Dec. 1, 2013.
  • "Lokout (1834-1913)." HistoryLink Oct. 13, 2013
  • "Antidotes to Humanism." The Trumpeter Journal of Ecosophy 28.1 (2012).
  • "Washington Wipes out a Wolf Pack." High Country News Nov. 21 2012.
  • "From Sublimity to Ecopornography: Assessing the Bureau of Reclamation Art Collection." Journal of Ecocriticism 1.1 (January 2009): 1-25.
  • "The Fine Art of Bureaucracy." High Country News Jan. 19, 2009.
  • "Theodore Winthrop in the Washington Territory." Columbia Spring 2007.
  • "An Iconography of American Sabotage." Nature et Progrès: Interactions, Exclusions et Mutations. Ed. Pierre Lagayette. Paris: Presses de l'université, Paris Sorbonne, 2006. 151-68.
  • "Poetic Scholarship." Common-Place 6.2 (Jan. 2006).

    • Autobiographical Ecocriticism

    "Living the Land." Weber Studies 19.3 (Spring-Summer 2002): 88-94.

    Personal life

    Lindholdt married Karen Palrang at High Rock Lookout on Mt. Rainier in August 1994. They had met when Karen (now Karen Lindholdt), then a law student at the University of Idaho, joined an environmental campaign Lindholdt was organizing. They have two sons together.

    Educated at Penn State (PhD 1985) and Western Washington University (MA 1980, BA 1978), he studied under nonfiction Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Annie Dillard in Bellingham.

    References

    Paul Lindholdt Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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