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BranchIn office1995\u20131996Preceded byScott SlovicSucceeded byJohn TallmadgeBorn (1963-12-06) December 6, 1963 (age\u00a059)CitizenshipAmericanMichael P. BranchOccupation(s)Professor at University of Nevada, RenoKnown\u00a0forCreative Nonfiction, Humor, EcocriticismDisciplineAmerican literatureSub-disciplineEcocriticism, film studies, creative nonfiction, humor studiesNotable worksHow to Cuss in Western, \u2018The Best Read Naturalist\u2019: Nature Writings of Ralph Waldo EmersonNotable ideasHumor in Environmental ThinkingWebsitehttp:\/\/michaelbranchwriter.com\/Michael P. Branch (born December 6, 1963) is an ecocritic, writer, and humorist with over three hundred publications, including work in The Best American Essays, The Best American Science and Nature Writing and The Best American Nonrequired Reading.[1] An important member of the environmental and writing community, Western American Literature has described him as part of the “enduring procession of outdoor journalists.”[2]His academic work has been called by reviewers as “an excellent entry to the field for the student or general reader who may have read considerably in the area but who is only beginning to make his or her way around the academic study of nature writing”.[3]The Best Read Naturalist was called “[a] much needed and thorough collection of Emerson’s most significant nature writings.”[4]When not writing, Branch enjoys activist and stewardship work, native plant gardening, bucking stovewood, playing blues harmonica, sipping sour mash, cursing at baseball on the radio, and walking at least 1,000 miles each year in the hills and canyons surrounding his high desert home.Education and work[edit]Michael Branch received a Bachelor of Arts from the College of William & Mary in 1985.[5] He received a Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Virginia. He currently teaches undergraduate and graduate courses at the University of Nevada, Reno, where he is University Foundation Professor of English.[6]One of the founders of ecocriticism, Branch co-founded the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE)[7] and served as the president from 1995-1996.[8] He also worked as book review editor for the journal Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment[9] and co-edited the series Under the Sign of Nature published by The University of Virginia Press.[10]His professional memberships include the Sierra Club, Wilderness Society, Nature Conservancy, Friends of the Everglades, Sierra Nevada Alliance, League to Save Lake Tahoe, Friends of Nevada Wilderness, Great Basin Mine Watch, Cenozoic Society’s Wildlands Project, John Muir Society, Modern Language Association, American Association of University Professors, American Literature Association, American Society for Environmental History.[11]Writing career[edit]Branch’s writing career spans from academic articles to humor essays. His column for High Country News \u201cRants from the Hill\u201d included 69 essays from 2010-2016, which were then collected into two books, Raising Wild and Rants from the Hill.[12]With over 200 publications and 300 invited talks, lectures, and workshops, Branch’s work has aided in founding ecocriticism.[13]A selection of his work in ecocritcism includes:\u201cAre You Serious? A Modest Proposal for Environmental Humor.\u201d Oxford Handbook of Ecocriticism (edited by Greg Garrard), Oxford University Press, 2014: 378-90.\u201cAn Ecocritical Community.\u201d Journal of Ecocriticism 5.1 (January, 2013): 3-4. Literature and Environment, the Long View: Thoughts from the Founders of ASLE\u201cSaving All the Pieces: The Place of Textual Editing in Ecocriticism.\u201d The Greening of Literary Scholarship: Literature, Theory, and the Environment (edited by Steven Rosendale), University of Iowa Press, 2002: 3-25.\u201cEcocriticism: The Nature of Nature in Literary Theory and Practice.\u201d Weber Studies: An Interdisciplinary Humanities Journal 11.1 (Winter, 1994): 41-55.A selection of his work in creative nonfiction includes:\u201cPilgrimage to the Pointy-Toed Boots.\u201d Terrain.org: A Journal of the Built and Natural Environments. June 25, 2019.\u201cWill the Real Fake John Muir Please Stand Up?\u201d Sustainable Play: Long-form Storytelling at the Confluence of People, Planet, and Play. August 8, 2018.\u201cFinding Home: What Happens When a Desert Baby Visits the Meadows of Yosemite?\u201d National Parks Magazine 91.3 (June, 2017): 18-20.\u201cLawn Guilt.\u201d Terrain.org: A Journal of the Built and Natural Environments. June 20, 2017.\u201cBig Dan, a Couple of Beers, and Thousands of Honeybees.\u201d High Country News 49.10 (June 12, 2017): 26-27.\u201cThe Hills are Alive.\u201d Places Journal. January, 2012. (12 ms. pp.)\u201cFreebirds: A Thanksgiving Lesson in Forgiveness.\u201d Orion 30.6 (November\/December, 2011): 44-49. Also available as a studio-recorded podcast of an author reading of the essay.\u201cThe Adventures of Peavine and Charlie: A Journey through the Imaginative Landscape of Childhood.\u201d Orion 30.1 (January\/February, 2011): 58-63. Also available as a studio-recorded podcast of an author reading of the essay.The Michael P. Branch Papers are curated in the Special Collections and University Archives, University of Nevada, Reno. Established in 2014. 44 boxes to date. (Collection Identifier #2014-05).[14]Creative nonfiction[edit]On the Trail of the Jackalope: How a Legend Captured the World’s Imagination and Helped Us Cure Cancer. Pegasus Books, 2022. ISBN 1643139339 (hardcover).How to Cuss in Western: And Other Missives from the High Desert. Shambhala \/ Roost Books (distributed by Penguin Random House), 2018. ISBN\u00a09781611804614 (paperback).Rants from the Hill: On Packrats, Bobcats, Wildfires, Curmudgeons, a Drunken Mary Kay Lady, and Other Encounters with the Wild in the High Desert. Shambhala \/ Roost Books (distributed by Penguin Random House), 2017. ISBN\u00a0978-1611804577 (paperback); ISBN\u00a09780834840553 (E-book).Raising Wild: Dispatches from a Home in the Wilderness. Shambhala Publications \/ Roost Books (distributed by Penguin Random House). 2016. ISBN\u00a0978-1-61180-345-7 (cloth).Academic books[edit]\u2018The Best Read Naturalist\u2019: Nature Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Co-editor with Clinton Mohs. University of Virginia Press, 2017. ISBN\u00a09780813939513 (cloth); ISBN\u00a09780813939520 (paper); ISBN\u00a09780813939537 (E-book).John Muir’s Last Journey: South to the Amazon and East to Africa; Unpublished Journals and Selected Correspondence, editor. Foreword by Robert Michael Pyle. Washington, D.C.: Island Press\/Shearwater Books, 2001. ISBN\u00a01-55963-640-8 (cloth); ISBN\u00a09781559636407 (paper); ISBN\u00a09781559636407 (E-book). Audiobook released by Audible Studios in 2016 (Reader: Allan Robertson).Reading the Roots: American Nature Writing before Walden. Athens and London: University of Georgia Press, 2004. ISBN\u00a00-8203-2547-3 (cloth);  ISBN\u00a00-8203-2548-1 (paper).The ISLE Reader: Ecocriticism, 1993-2003. Co-editor with Scott Slovic. Foreword by Patrick D. Murphy. Athens and London: University of Georgia Press, 2003. ISBN\u00a00-8203-2516-3 (cloth); ISBN\u00a00-8203-2517-1 (paper).Reading the Earth: New Directions in the Study of Literature and the Environment. Co-editor with Rochelle Johnson, Daniel Patterson, and Scott Slovic. Moscow: University of Idaho Press, 1998. ISBN\u00a00-89301-213-0 (cloth); ISBN\u00a00-89301-220-3 (paper).The Height of Our Mountains: Nature Writing from Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains and Shenandoah Valley. Co-editor with Daniel J. Philippon. Foreword by John Elder. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998. ISBN\u00a00-8018-5632-9 (cloth); ISBN\u00a00-8018-5691-4 (paper).Honors and awards[edit]References[edit]^ “The 2017 Nevada Writers Hall of Fame inductees cover it all: Poetry, satire and wild life”. University of Nevada, Reno.^ Lindholdt, Paul. “How to Cuss in Western (And Other Missives from the High Desert) by Michael P. Branch (review).” Western American Literature, vol. 54 no. 1, 2019, pp. 94-96. Project MUSE, doi:10.1353\/wal.2019.0028^ The Height of Our Mountains: Nature Writing from Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains and Shenandoah Valley by Michael P.Branch and Daniel J. Philippon. Appalachian Heritage, Volume 26, Number 3, Summer 1998, pp. 68-70 (Review) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1353\/aph.1998.0024.^ Meehan, Sean Ross. “”The Best Read Naturalist”: Nature Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson ed. by Michael P. Branch and Clinton Mohs (review).” Early American Literature, vol. 53 no. 1, 2018, pp. 214-216. Project MUSE, doi:10.1353\/eal.2018.0011^ “MICHAEL BRANCH”. Ellen Meloy Fund.^ “Michael Branch”. www.unr.edu.^ “Michael P. Branch – Living People Influenced by John Muir – John Muir Exhibit”. vault.sierraclub.org.^ “Vision & History – ASLE”.^ “Orion Magazine | Michael P. Branch”. Orion Magazine.^ “Under the Sign of Nature”. The University of Virginia Press.^ “Michael P. Branch.” Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, 2002. Literature Resource Center, Gale\u00a0H1000126909. Accessed 16 July 2019.^ Branch, Michael (April 4, 2016). “Rants from the Hill: After many years of essay writing, a wave goodbye”. www.hcn.org.^ Lynch, Tom (August 1, 2017). “Raising Wild: Dispatches from a Home in the Wilderness. By Michael P. Branch”. Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment. 24 (2): 371\u2013373. doi:10.1093\/isle\/isx013.^ Branch, Michael P. (July 30, 1993). “Michael P. Branch papers” \u2013 via innopac.library.unr.edu Library Catalog.^ “Finalists Announced for 2019 ASLE Book Awards – ASLE”.^ “Past Recipients”. Ellen Meloy Fund.^ Kowalczik, Tanner. “Library Guides: Nevada Writers Hall of Fame: Silver Pen Recipients”. guides.library.unr.edu.^ “2017 ASLE Book Award Finalists Announced – ASLE”.^ Brady, Amy (June 23, 2017). “The Best Nature Writing of 2017 So Far”.^ “Creative Writing Award \u00ab\u00a0Western Literature Association”.^ The Pushcart Prize XXXIII, 2009. Ed. by Bill Henderson. Dec. 2008. 620p.^ The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2009 Edited by Elizabeth Kolbert, series editor Tim Folger. Mariner, 352p. ISBN\u00a0978-0547-00259-0  "},{"@context":"http:\/\/schema.org\/","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki19\/#breadcrumbitem","name":"Enzyklop\u00e4die"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki19\/michael-p-branch-wikipedia\/#breadcrumbitem","name":"Michael P. Branch – Wikipedia"}}]}]