Priscilla Paton

Priscilla Paton is affiliated with St. Olaf College and Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota. She received a B.A. degree from Bowdoin College in Maine and a Ph.D. in English Literature from Boston College. She has taught courses on the Environment and Literature, Women’s Literature, Landscape in American Literature and Art, and the Representation of Animals. She has published articles and essays on these topics in The Iowa Review, American Literature, South Atlantic Review, jac, ISLE, and Mosaic. Paton has also written a children’s book published by Houghton Mifflin, and a scholarly book, Abandoned New England: Landscape in the Works of Homer, Frost, Hopper, Wyeth, and Bishop. She blogs on animals in literature and culture at therandomanimal@blogspot.com and is writing a book on human expectations of animals.