Dan Philippon
Environmental literature; environmental ethics; environmental history; food writing; sustainability studies
Background & Expertise
Dan Philippon studies American environmental literature and its relationship to the ideas of nature, culture, place and food. He is the author of two books, “Conserving Words: How American Nature Writers Shaped the Environmental Movement” (2004) and “The Farmer, the Gastronome, and the Chef: In Pursuit of the Ideal Meal” (2024), as well as the editor of several others, including “Our Neck of the Woods: Exploring Minnesota’s Wild Places” (2009). He is a past president of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE) and has served as a senior fellow at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society in Germany, a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Turin and University of Gastronomic Sciences in Italy, and a visiting professor at the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon in France. A professor, he teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in the environmental humanities, literary nonfiction writing and sustainability studies, for which he received the Morse-Alumni Award for Outstanding Contributions to Undergraduate Education in 2017 and the Arthur “Red” and Helene B. Motley Exemplary Teaching Award in 2022.
Featured Project: Dan Philippon
Environmental Humanities Initiative Support
Impact Goal
Support the Environmental Humanities Initiative, which has served the University of Minnesota for a decade as the primary unit in the College of Liberal Arts where faculty, students and staff can pursue interdisciplinary research and collaborative work in the environmental humanities.
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