John Gatta

John Gatta is Emeritus Professor of English both at the University of Connecticut and at Sewanee, where he has also served as Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences.  A long-time staff member of the Center for Deep Green Faith, he has taught as well at the University of Missouri, as a Fulbright lecturer in Senegal, and in South Africa. Much of his teaching and research has addressed theological topics, as well as American environmental literature and the interplay between religious faith and literary imagination. Among his many publications are books such as Green Gospel: Foundations of Ecotheology, The Transfiguration of Christ and Creation, Spirits of Place in American Literary Culture, Making Nature Sacred: Literature, Religion, and Environment in America from the Puritans to the Present, and (forthcoming) Green Worlds of C.S. Lewis: the Ecology of Aslan’s Realm.