Hailing from Louisville, KY, Erin Regneri is a reader, a writer, a lapsed musician, a vegetarian, a tree-hugger, and a Capricorn. Her focus within nineteenth century American literature is predominately nature and environmental writing, and she is interested in the ways in which literature guides us through the evolution of humans' changing relationship to the environment throughout the long 19th C. She thinks about Henry David Thoreau way more than most people do, and even has a very fat cat named after him. Erin lives with a menagerie of pets that can be admired on her professional Instagram page @dr.erins.english.class, which is always a hit with her students.