Jennifer Westerman is a Professor in the Goodnight Family Sustainable Development Department who has taught at Appalachian State University for twenty years. A former environmental educator, park ranger, and Peace Corps volunteer, she received her PhD in the Literature and Environment program at the University of Nevada, Reno. Her primary teaching and writing interests are in environmental humanities, working-class studies, labor environmentalism, and environmental creative nonfiction. Her publications have appeared in Business and Society Review, Sustainability, Journal of Business Ethics Education, Journal of Business Ethics, Business, Peace, and Sustainable Development, Environment, Development, and Sustainability, International Journal of Innovation and Sustainable Development, and the Journal of Management Education. She is co-editor of the book Working on Earth: Class and Environmental Justice (2015), and her creative nonfiction essays have appeared in Let There Be Night: Testimony on Behalf of the Dark (2008), Working on Earth: Class and Environmental Justice (2015), and Solastalgia: An Anthology of Emotion in a Disappearing World (2023). She is past associate editor (2018-2020) and co-editor (2020-2022) of the international environmental humanities journal ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment and author of Wonder and Other Survival Skills Teacher’s Guide for Orion magazine (2013). She currently serves as co-editor of the environmental creative nonfiction series, Ecologia, at the University of Virginia Press.
Title: Professor
Department: Sustainable Development
Email address: Email me
Phone: (828) 262-6666