Education

• A.B. Harvard, 1981
• M.A. Oxford, 1983
• Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania, 1989

Publications

The Cowboy: Representations of Labor in an American Work Culture (Oxford, 1992)

Co-editor, Over the Edge: Remapping the American West (Univ. of California, 1998)

Ten Most Wanted: The New Western Literature (Routledge, 1998)

Imagining the African American West (Univ. of Nebraska, 2005)

The Melon Capital of the World:  A Memoir (University of Nebraska Press, 2015)

ed., A History of California Literature (Cambridge University Press, 2015)

Geographic Personas: Self-Transformation and Performance in the American West (Nebraska, 2021)

Tongues of Settlement:  Where the World Becomes Basque (published, 2025)