Professor and Associate Dean, College of Arts and Sciences
Phone: (239)590-7181
E-Mail: wohlpart@fgcu.edu
Office: RH - 222

Ph. D., University of Tennessee, English, 1993
M. A., Colorado State University, English, 1988
B.A., University of Tennessee, English and Philosophy, 1986

Research and Teaching Interests:  Environmental Literature, Native American Literature, Women's Literature, Contemporary Literature

In addition to teaching contemporary Environmental Literature, Professor Wohlpart has recently co-edited A Voice for Earth: Writers Respond to the Earth Charter (University of Georgia Press, 2008), a collection of essays, poems, and stories that give a literary voice to the ethical principles of the Earth Charter. He has also published essays on Dickinson, Whitman, Hawthorne, Douglass, and others in American literature. His current scholarly work focuses on environmental literature, Native American Literature, women's literature, and creative nonfiction, which he hopes to compile in a book tentatively entitled A Mind of Sky and Thunder: Remembering the Forgotten Language. Finally, he is a Senior Scholar with the Center for Environmental and Sustainability Education and a Redesign Scholar with the National Center for Academic Transformation.

Professional Appointments

2008-pres.       Senior Scholar, Center for Environmental and Sustainability Education, Florida Gulf Coast University

2007-2010       Redesign Scholar, National Center for Academic Transformation
                      Consultations: Seton Hall University, Arizona State University, Truman State University, University of West Alabama

2006-2009       Advisory Board Member, University Press of Florida

April 2006       Lead Reviewer, Quality Enhancement Plan for the University of North Texas SACS Reaffirmation of Accreditation

2004-2008       Associate Director, Center for Environmental and Sustainability Education, Florida Gulf Coast University

Recent, Representative Peer Reviewed and Invited Publications and Presentations

Environmental Literature

Wohlpart, A. James and Peter Blaze Corcoran, editors. A Voice for Earth: American Writers Respond to the Earth Charter. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2008.

"The Work of Restoration Ecology: Restoring Biography and Landscape in Janisse Ray's Ecology of a Cracker Childhood." Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association. Reno, NV: October 9-11, 2008.

"Healing the Earth/Healing the Self: Remembering the Forgotten Knowledge in Linda Hogan's Work." Native American Literature Session. Rocky Mountain Modern Language Associate Convention. Calgary: October 4-6, 2007.

"'A larger life than our own': Linda Hogan's Dwellings as Native Ceremony." Seventh Biennial Conference of the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment. Spartanburg, SC: June 12-16, 2007.

"Listening to the Forgotten Language: A Journey into Stillness and Peace." 27th Annual Convention of the International Listening Association, "Listening: The Language of Peace." Salem, Oregon: April 20-22, 2006.

Sustainability Education

Wohlpart, A. James and Megan M. Melvin. "Developing an Ethics of Sustainability: Reading Environmental Literature through the Earth Charter." Young People, Education, and Sustainable Development. (forthcoming)

Corcoran, Peter Blaze and A. James Wohlpart. "Infusing the Earth Charter into Research and Curriculum: One American University's Example." Good Practices using the Earth Charter. San Jose, Costa Rica: UNESCO Education Sector, 2007. 110-14.

"Environmental Humanities." Fifth Annual Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities. Honolulu, Hawaii: January 12-15, 2007
"Sustainability in the Mission and Curriculum at Florida Gulf Coast University." Higher Education Thematic Session. Earth Charter+5 Meeting. Amsterdam: 7-8 November 2005.

"A Voice for the Earth: The Rachel Carson Center and Environmental Literature at Florida Gulf Coast University." Sixth Biennial Conference of the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment. Eugene, OR: 22 June 2005.

Course Redesign

Wohlpart, A. James, Craig Rademacher, and Chuck Lindsey. "The Reliability of Computer Software to Score Essays: Innovations in a Humanities Course." Computers and Composition 25.2 (2008): 203-223.

"Hot Topics in Course Redesign: What about the English Department." The Redesign Alliance Second Annual Conference. Orlando: March 16-18, 2008.

"Disciplinary Showcase: Understanding Visual and Performing Arts." The Redesign Alliance Second Annual Conference. Orlando: March 16-18, 2008.

"Redesign of Understanding Visual and Performing Arts." Learning by Design. State Council of Higher Education for Virginia. Richmond: November 9, 2007.

Wohlpart, A. James, Craig Rademacher, Lisa Courcier, Scott Karakas, and Chuck Lindsey. "Online Education in the Visual and Performing Arts: Strategies for Increasing Learning and Reducing Costs." Journal of Educators Online 3.1 (January 2006).

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