Timothy Sweet
Eberly Family Distinguished Professor of American Literature
Specializations:
- American Studies (17th-19th Century)
- Environmental Humanities
- Literature and Photography
- Native-American Literature
Tim Sweet is author of Extinction and the Human: American Narratives from the Pleistocene to the Anthropocene (University of Pennsylvania Press, forthcoming), 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).