Timothy Sweet

Eberly Family Distinguished Professor of American Literature

Curriculum Vitae

Specializations:

American Studies (17th-19th Century)
Environmental Humanities
Native-American Literature

Tim Sweet is author of Extinction and the Human: Four American Encounters (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021, (https://www.pennpress.org/9780812253429/extinction-and-the-human/), American Georgics: Economy and Environment in Early American Literature (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002), and Traces of War: Poetry, Photography, and the Crisis of the Union (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990). His edited collection Literary Cultures of the American Civil War was published by the University of Georgia Press (2016), https://ugapress.org/book/9780820349602/literary-cultures-of-the-civil-war/.