Paul Lindholdt

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.

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 offered a lectureship at Eastern Washington University in 1994. He was promoted to Assistant Professor (1997–2003), then Associate Professor (2003–07), and finally Professor of English from 2007–present.^[1] Students rank him among the top ten most popular professors at his university.^[2]

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).^[3]
• 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'" [1674]. 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.^[4]

References

External links

• Carolyn Lamberson (September 9, 2012). "Book Notes: Lindholdt earns rare book award". The Spokesman-Review. 
• Rate My Professors website