Paul Lindholdt

Lindholdt began his career as a lecturer at Idaho State University from 1984–87 then continued at Western Washington University from 1987–90. In 1990 he visited at the University of Idaho as assistant professor until migrating back to his home state of Washington in 1994 at Eastern Washington University. He was promoted to Assistant Professor (1997–2003), Associate Professor (2003–07), and Professor of English from 2007–present.[1] Students rank him among the ten most effective teachers at his university.[2]

Lindholdt earned his PhD in early American literature and culture. He studied the foundations of science in the colonial period, a topic that fueled his abiding interest in all things ecological. He teaches courses that range from freshman honors to graduate seminars on major authors and on special topics that include ecocriticism and environmental humanities. He has spoken on these topics at three symposia in France and at dozens of stateside conferences.

• Washington State Book Award for Biography / Memoir, 2012, In Earshot of Water: Notes from the Columbia Plateau (University of Iowa Press, 2011).[3]
• First Place and Second Place, Society of Professional Journalists, Region 10, Energy and Environmental Reporting, 2000.
• Leonard Steinberg Memorial Prize, Academy of American Poets, Pennsylvania State University, 1984.

• Making Landfall: Poems, Farmington, Maine: Encircle Publications, 2018.
• The Spokane River, Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2018.
• Explorations in Ecocriticism: Advocacy, Bioregionalism, and Visual Design, Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books, 2015.
• In Earshot of Water: Notes from the Columbia Plateau, Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2011.
• The Canoe and the Saddle: A Critical Edition. [1862.] Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2006.
• Holding Common Ground: The Individual and Public Lands in the American West. Introduction and edited with Derrick Knowles. Spokane: Eastern Washington University Press, 2005.
• History and Folklore of the Cowichan Indians. [1901.] Phoenix: Marquette Books, 2004. Edited and introduction.
• Cascadia Wild: Protecting an International Ecosystem. Edited with Mitch Friedman. Bellingham, Washington: Greater Ecosystem Alliance, 1993.
• John Josselyn, Colonial Traveler: A Critical Edition of 'Two Voyages to New-England'." Hanover, New Hampshire: University Press of New England, 1988.

• "A Warrior's Portrait." Spokesman-Review Dec. 1, 2013.
• "Lokout (1834-1913)." HistoryLink Oct. 13, 2013
• "Antidotes to Humanism." The Trumpeter Journal of Ecosophy 28.1 (2012).
• "From Sublimity to Ecopornography: Assessing the Bureau of Reclamation Art Collection." Journal of Ecocriticism 1.1 (January 2009): 1-25.
• "The Fine Art of Bureaucracy." High Country News Jan. 19, 2009.
• "Theodore Winthrop in the Washington Territory." Columbia Spring 2007.
• "An Iconography of American Sabotage." Nature et Progrès: Interactions, Exclusions et Mutations. Ed. Pierre Lagayette. Paris: Presses de l'université, Paris Sorbonne, 2006. 151-68.

• "Making Landfall." Terrain.org Aug. 5, 2019.
• "The Security of Dirt." The Smart Set Feb. 19, 2018.
• "Shrub-Steppe, Pothole, Ponderosa Pine." Numéro Cinq Aug. 2017.
• "The Trumpets of Solitude." Terrain.org June 2015.

Lindholdt married Karen Palrang at High Rock Lookout on Mt. Rainier in August 1994. They met when Karen, a law student at the University of Idaho, joined an environmental campaign Lindholdt was organizing. They have two grown sons together and divide their time between Spokane, Washington, and Sandpoint, Idaho.[4]

Educated at Penn State (PhD 1985) and Western Washington University (MA 1980, BA 1978), Lindholdt studied writing with poet John Balaban and Pulitzer Prize-winner Annie Dillard.

• Carolyn Lamberson (September 9, 2012). "Book Notes: Lindholdt earns rare book award". The Spokesman-Review.
• Paul Lindholdt - Eastern Washington University website
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