Biography

Ted earned his Ph.D. in English from Temple University in 2017. His teaching focuses on environmental and sustainability issues, specifically climate change, and he loves to help students develop their capacity for ecological thought and enable them to find actionable solutions to incredibly complex problems. His course on climate change fiction, which is often called “cli-fi,” has been featured in The Atlantic, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and Smithsonian, and he also leads workshops for local libraries about what novels can teach us about climate change. His Ph.D. research focused on British modernist fiction, early ecology, and the Anthropocene, and he continues to study how philosophies of nature are reflected in literary works and how scientists, reformers, and authors collaborate to formulate and frame ideas about the environment. In addition to scholarly work, Ted presents and writes about teaching and pedagogy, including a series of freely available learning modules through work with Rowan’s Cultivating the Environmental Humanities group.

Research Interests

Climate Change Fiction, Environmental Humanities

Courses

Environmental Writing & Rhetori, Honors College Composition I, Sophomore Engineering Clinic, Writing as Managers