Jake McGinnis is Assistant Professor of Humanities at Graceland University, where he teaches courses in the environmental humanities, American literature, and writing. His work has appeared in ESQ: A Journal of Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture, The Concord Saunterer, The Palgrave Handbook of Global Sustainability, and other publications. His current book project, Disturbance Ecologies: Thoreau’s Excursions and Anthropocene Nonfiction, examines travel writing from 1835 to 1862 to argue that the roots of American environmentalism are entangled in the discourse of travel and travel writing.