Postdoctoral Fellow in Climate and Inequality, The Climate Museum | Series Editor, The Liberty Hyde Bailey Library
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Ph.D., English and American Literature, New York University, 2021.
Dissertation: Land, Labor, Literature: Ecospheric Critique from the Margins of the Progressive Era - director: Dr. Una Chaudhuri
M.F.A., Creative Writing and Environment, Iowa State University, 2013.
Thesis: Havening (researched literary nonfiction) – director: Professor David Zimmerman
B.A., English with Honors and Humanities, Christ College Scholar, Valparaiso University, 2010.
Honors Thesis: "Thoreauvian Relinquishment and Whitmanesque Superfluity: Towards an Ecocritical Reconciliation" – director: Dr. Martin Buinicki
Mellon Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow in Climate and Inequality, The Climate Museum, New York, NY, August 2022-July 2024.
Writer in Residence, Trinity Lower East Side Lutheran Parish, New York, NY, December 2021-March 2022.
Postdoctoral Teaching Fellowship, Department of English, New York U., September 2021-May 2022.
Public Humanities Fellow (inaugural cohort), NYU Public Humanitites Initiative / Museum of the City of New York, September 2020-May 2021.
Best of the Net nomination, The Citron Review for "Dianthus Clavelina, Sprout!" (poem), September 2020.
Brine Internship in Digital Humanities, Polonsky Foundation-NYU Digital Humanities Internship Program, New York U., May-August 2020.
Full Tuition Scholarship, T. S. Eliot International Summer School, U. of London, July 2020. (Postponed to July 2021 due to the coronavirus.)
MacCracken Doctoral Fellowship, Graduate Program in Arts and Science, New York U., August 2014-May 2019; renewed September 2019-May 2020.
Pushcart Prize nomination, Narrative Northeast for “Soot of a Young Star” (poem), January 2019.
Inaugural Bailiwick Writer in Residence, AgArts Farm-to-Artist Residency Program, July-August 2018.
Creative Nonfiction Participant, Bread Loaf Orion Environmental Writers' Conference, Middlebury Coll., June 2017.
Poetry Contributor, Sewanee Writers' Conference, The U. of the South, July 2015.
Books
To Leave for Our Own Country (poems), Black Lawrence Press, forthcoming April 2024 [under contract].
Book Series and Editions
The Liberty Hyde Bailey Library. John Linstrom, series editor. Ithaca, NY, Comstock-Cornell UP.
Bailey, Liberty Hyde. The Nature-Study Idea and Related Writings. 1903. Edited by John Linstrom, Ithaca, NY, Comstock-Cornell UP, 2023. The Liberty Hyde Bailey Library 1. [Peer-reviewed; under contract.]
Bailey, Liberty Hyde. The Liberty Hyde Bailey Gardener's Companion: Essential Writings. Edited by John A. Stempien and John Linstrom, Ithaca, NY, Comstock-Cornell UP, 2019 [peer-reviewed].
Bailey, Liberty Hyde. The Holy Earth. 1915. Edited by John Linstrom, Authoritative Text, Centennial Edition, Berkeley, Counterpoint, 2015.
Scholarship: Articles and Chapters
Cowritten with Daniel Rinn: "Agrarian 'Naturism': Liberty Hyde Bailey and the Michigan Frontier." The Sower and the Seer: Perspectives on the Intellectual History of the American Midwest, edited by Jon K. Lauck, et al., Madison, Wisconsin Historical Society, 2021.
"Seeking a Center for Ecopoetics." Valparaiso Poetry Review, vol. 12, no. 2, 2011, https://www.valpo.edu/vpr/v12n2/v12n2prose/linstromseeking.php.
"A Savage Mountain Man and Clever Irony in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn." The Twainian, vol. 64, no. 2, 2008.
Digital Scholarship
The Liberty Hyde Bailey Project. Designed, maintained, and edited by John Linstrom, June 2020-present, www.lhbaileyproject.com.
Creative Nonfiction
"Remap." The Antioch Review, vol. 78, no. 1, winter 2020, pp. 72-88.
“Symphonies and Sweet Potatoes.” Newfound, vol. 10, no. 2, https://newfound.org/current-issue/nonfiction-john-linstrom/.
"Fuckaroo!" Prairie Gold: An Anthology of the American Heartland, edited by Lance Sacknoff, et al., North Liberty, IA, Ice Cube, 2014, pp. 166-78.
Poetry
"Movement and Remembering." Dunes Review, forthcoming.
"Autumn Stridulation." Northwest Review, forthcoming.
"Thunder and Lilies." Notre Dame Review, forthcoming.
"A Fulfillment." Valparaiso Poetry Review, vol. 24, no. 1, Fall/Winter 2022-2023, https://www.valpo.edu/valparaiso-poetry-review/2022/11/30/john-linstrom-a-fulfillment/.
"What Child." The Christian Century, December 2022, p. 57.
Two poems. ("The Day the Machines Came" and "Chloe Gazes through the Window Blinds.") Adelaide Magazine, year 8, no. 55, November 2022, pp. 155-59 and http://adelaidemagazine.org/2022/12/07/the-day-the-machines-came-by-john-linstrom/.
"Elegy in Ash." Poets Reading the News, 28 February 2022, http://www.poetsreadingthenews.com/2022/02/elegy-in-ash/.
"Climate Signals, Sunset Park," Commonweal Magazine, vol. 148, no. 4, April 2021, p. 41 and https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/poem-climate-signalssunset-parkpark.
"Industry," Commonweal Magazine, vol. 148, no. 2, February 2021, p. 15 and https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/poem-industry.
"Brooklyn Radiator." Commonweal Magazine, vol. 148, no. 1, January 2021, p. 46 and https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/poem-brooklyn-radiator.
"Dear Shadow." Commonweal Magazine, vol. 147, no. 11, December 2020, p. 61 and https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/poem-dear-shadow.
"Liturgy of Next Door." Roanoke Review, 2020, https://www.roanokereview.org/poetry2020/john-linstrom.
"Dianthus Clavelina, Sprout!" The Citron Review, vol. 10, summer 2020, https://citronreview.com/2020/06/21/dianthus-clavelina-sprout/.
"Pumpkin on the Porch." Atlanta Review, vol. 26, no. 2, 2020, p. 27 and http://atlantareview.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Atlanta-Review-Spring-2020-04.30.20.pdf.
"Notes from an Epicenter." Writers Resist, "The Viral Resistance Issue," no. 107, 2 April 2020, http://www.writersresist.com/2020/04/02/notes-from-an-epicenter/.
"Snow-Bound." The New Criterion, vol. 38, no. 6, February 2020, p. 30 and https://newcriterion.com/issues/2020/2/snow-bound.
"To My Father, on the Table, Several States Away." North American Review, "Open Space" online feature, 24 December 2019, https://northamericanreview.org/open-space/my-father-table-several-states-away.
"Earth Room." About Place, "Infinite Country" issue, vol. 5, no. 4, Oct. 2019, https://aboutplacejournal.org/issues/infinite-country/east-rebirth/john-linstrom/.
"Disclaimer." Vallum: Contemporary Poetry, "Fear" issue, vol. 16, no. 2, 2019, p. 62.
"On the President's Announcement of Our Hashtag." Writers Resist, no. 95, 19 September 2019, http://www.writersresist.com/2019/09/19/on-the-presidents-announcement-of-our-hashtag/. Previously appeared in This Week in Poetry, 9 November 2015, https://thisweekinpoetry.wordpress.com/2015/11/09/on-the-presidents-announcement-of-our-hashtag/.
"Storm's Breath." Free State Review, no. 11, Late Summer / Early Fall 2019, p. 48.
"Blueshift." Cold Mountain Review, vol. 47, no. 2, Spring/Summer 2019, print and https://www.coldmountainreview.org/issues/spring-summer-2019/blueshift-by-john-linstrom.
"Leaving the Party." Alluvian, vol. 5, Spring 2019, http://alluvian.space/leaving-the-party-john-linstrom.
“Church of the Epiphany.” Bridge Eight, 15 Dec 2018, https://www.bridgeeight.com/church-of-the-epiphany/.
“Day Sleepers.” Commonweal Magazine, vol. 145, no. 15, 21 Sept. 2018, p. 13 and https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/day-sleepers.
"Ice Sheet Archive." Broad River Review, 50th Anniversary Issue, no. 50, 2018, p. 104.
"Sunrise, with Motherly Influence." Commonweal Magazine, vol. 145, no. 12, 6 July 2018, p. 44 and https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/poem-sunrise-motherly-influence.
"Annual Thaw." Commonweal Magazine, vol. 145, no. 11, 15 June 2018, p. 8 and https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/annual-thaw.
"Found in the City." Commonweal Magazine, vol. 145, no. 11, 15 June 2018, p. 31 and https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/found-city.
"Sweet Potato Elegy." Commonweal Magazine, vol. 145, no. 9, 18 May 2018, p. 10 and https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/poem-sweet-potato-elegy.
"Losing Track of the Conversation." Dunes Review, vol. 22, no. 1, Spring/Summer 2018, pp. 47-8.
Three poems. ("Soot of a Young Star," "Retting," and "Little Deaths.") Narrative Northeast, "Eco Issue," no. 5, 2018, http://www.narrativenortheast.com/?p=5337.
"What was Precious." Valparaiso Poetry Review, vol. 19, no. 1, Fall/Winter 2017-2018, https://www.valpo.edu/valparaiso-poetry-review/2018/01/04/john-linstrom-what-was-precious/.
"On the President's Announcement of our Hashtag." This Week in Poetry, 9 November 2015, https://thisweekinpoetry.wordpress.com/2015/11/09/on-the-presidents-announcement-of-our-hashtag/.
"Out of State." Valparaiso Poetry Review, vol. 14, no. 2, Spring/Summer 2013, https://www.valpo.edu/vpr/v14n2/v14n2poetry/linstromout.php.
"Daedalus, Give Me the Farthest Distance between Two Points." The Reed, Spring 2009, p. 4.
Exhibitions Curated
Marvels at Our Feet: The Gardener's Companion. Digital exhibition, co-curated with John A. Stempien. The Liberty Hyde Bailey Project, September 2020-present, www.lhbaileyproject.com/exhibitions/marvels-at-our-feet/introduction.
Provided research assistance and curated two historical-context panels for New York, New Music: 1980-1986. Museum of the City of New York, New York City, June 2021-September 2022.
Learn, Labor, Leisure: The Life of Liberty Hyde Bailey. Co-curated with Lauren Denny, née Pawlak. Liberty Hyde Bailey Museum, South Haven, Michigan, August 2012-June 2017.
The Holy Earth Centennial: Bailey’s Vision at 100. Liberty Hyde Bailey Museum, South Haven, Michigan, July-November 2015.
Onamanni: Bailey in the Boundary Waters. Liberty Hyde Bailey Museum, South Haven, Michigan, July-August 2014.
Star of the Lake: Legacy of a Pioneer Farmer and Master Mason. Liberty Hyde Bailey Museum, South Haven, Michigan, June-August 2013.
Works in Progress
Demolish the Fence: Interspecies Fieldwork and Ecospheric Writing from the Margins of the Progressive Era, a blend of material from my PhD dissertation and MFA thesis, incorporating autoethnographic memoir, ecocriticism, and literary history.
Mouth of Sun, a research-based, lyrical nonfiction manuscript about Liberty Hyde Bailey, the small hometown in Michigan that he and I shared 130 years apart, and the ecospheric ramifications of the American small-town diaspora.
Mellon Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow in Climate and Inequality, The Climate Museum, New York, NY, August 2022-July 2024.
Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow, English, New York University, New York, NY, September 2021-May 2022.
Museum Educator, Museum of the City of New York, New York, NY, September 2020-June 2021.
Graduate Adjunct Instructor, English, New York University, New York, NY, May-June 2018.
Teaching Assistant, English/Core, New York University, New York, NY, August 2016-December 2018.
Adjunct Instructor, Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, IN, January-May 2014.
Executive Director, Liberty Hyde Bailey Museum, South Haven, MI, September 2012-August 2014.
Graduate Adjunct Instructor, English, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, August 2010-May 2013.
Curator, Liberty Hyde Bailey Museum, South Haven, MI, April 2012-September 2012.
Poetry and Poetics, Creative Nonfiction and Narrative Writing, Environmental Humanities and Ecocriticism, Public and Digital Humanities (including Museum Studies), Modern and Contemporary American Literatures (especially African American, Native American, and Agrarian Literatures, among others), Cultural Studies, and Textual Scholarship
New York University
CORE-UA 400: Texts and Ideas: Arts and Publics (Teaching Assistant to Bill Blake)
CORE-UA 400: Texts and Ideas: The System (Teaching Assistant to Clifford Siskin)
ENGL-UA 101: Introduction to the Study of Literature
ENGL-UA 220: British Literature II (Teaching Assistant to Peter Nicholls and Paula McDowell)
ENGL-UA 230: American Literature I (Teaching Assistant to Jennifer Baker)
ENGL-UA 675: Literature and the Environment
ENGL-UA 712: Major Texts in Critical Theory
ENGL-UA 910: Creative Writing Capstone: Fiction
ENGL-UA 911: Creative Writing Capstone Colloquium: Fiction
Undergraduate Academic Advisor
Valparaiso University
LS 608: Graduate Writing and Research
Graduate Writing Center Tutor
Iowa State University
ENGL 150: Critical Thinking and Communication
ENGL 207: Introduction to Creative Writing (Teaching Assistant to Dean Bakopoulos)
ENGL 250: Written, Oral, Visual, and Electronic Composition; Place-Based Composition
Osher Lifelong Learning Institute: Creative Nonfiction Writing (co-taught with Debra Marquart)
"'A Religion of Creation and Life': Vodou and Zora Neale Hurston's Ecospheric Writing," special panel on "Religion and the Environment – A New Paradigm," Association for Environmental Studies and Sciences (AESS) 2021 Low-Carbon Virtual Conference, online, June 28-July 1, 2021.
“‘Windigo Research’ and the Queen of the Woods: Simon Pokagon's Answer to the Settler Cannibal Threat in O-gî-mäw-kwě Mit-i-gwä-kî,” presentation for the seminar on “Survivance: New Approaches to Indigenous Voices in 19th-Century America,” Sixth Biennial Conference of C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists, online (pandemic), October 16-25, 2020.
With Kimberly Adams, "Public Drive: Land-Grant Institutions and Access in American Education," Fourth Annual Post-Human Network (PHuN) Meeting, Tempe, AZ, February 21-22, 2020.
"Simon Pokagon, Chicago, and the 'Rebuke' of the Ogimawkwe Mitigwaki (Queen of the Woods)," special panel on "Environmental Activism on a Continuum: Wilderness, City, Place," 2019 Society for U.S. Intellectual History (S-USIH) Conference, New York, NY, November 7-10, 2019.
"Outlook to the Backgrounds: The Idiosyncratic Rhetoric and Spirituality of Liberty Hyde Bailey's Earth-Philosophy," special panel on "Religion and Agrarian Ecology in Liberty Hyde Bailey's 'Earth Philosophy,'" Ecology and Religion in 19th Century Studies Conference, Waco, Texas, September 18-21, 2019.
"Placing Literary Agrarianism in the Twentieth-Century Midwest," roundtable forum, Fifth Annual Midwestern History Conference, Grand Rapids, Michigan, May 30-31, 2019.
"Bodies, Zombies, and Grave Dirt: Vital Ontology and Cosmopolitical Potential in Zora Neale Hurston's Tell My Horse," Left Forum 2018, New York, New York, June 1-3, 2018.
"Ecospherism on the Land: Fieldwork, Ignorance, and Ecological Creativity," special panel on "Ecosphere Studies: Recovering Our Membership in 'Earth Alive!,'" Twelfth Biennial Conference of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE), Detroit, Michigan, June 20-24, 2017.
"'Rural Civilization' and 'The New Hold': Village, Country, and the Rural Vision in L. H. Bailey's The Holy Earth," special panel on "Liberty Hyde Bailey and The Holy Earth: One Century In," The Agricultural History Society Annual Meeting, Briarcliff Manor, New York, June 23-25, 2016.
"The Holy Earth and Ecocriticism's 'Third Wave': Bridging the Dualism between Relinquishment and Superfluity," special panel on "100 Years of Liberty Hyde Bailey's The Holy Earth," Agriculture, Food and Human Values Society (AFHVS) / Association for the Study of Food and Society (ASFS) Annual Meeting and Conference, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, June 24-28, 2015.
“Gothic Transformations and Nature’s Perspective in L. H. Bailey’s The Seven Stars,” Natures 2013 Interdisciplinary Humanities Conference, Riverside, California, February 15, 2013.
“From the Lakeshore,” National Conference on Undergraduate Research, Missoula, Montana, April 15-17, 2010.
“The Morals of Motion in As I Lay Dying,” Sigma Tau Delta National Convention, Minneapolis, Minnesota, March 25-28, 2009.
“A Savage Mountain Man and Clever Irony in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” National Conference on Undergraduate Research, La Crosse, Wisconsin, April 16-18, 2009.
"The Bailiwick Lodge and Orchards: A Story of American Nature-Study," monthly meeting of the Friends of Comstock advocacy group, Ithaca, New York, online (pandemic), August 5, 2021.
“Liberty Hyde Bailey: New Agrarian Philosopher and “Patron Saint” of American Gardening,” monthly lecture series for Wild Ones: Native Plants and Natural Landscapes, River City-Grand Rapids Area Chapter (Michigan), online (pandemic), October 19, 2020.
Keynote address: "From Pinks to 'Patron Saint of American Gardening': Liberty Hyde Bailey, The Gardener's Companion," special panel on The Liberty Hyde Bailey Gardener's Companion: Essential Writings, Second Annual Bailey Conference, Liberty Hyde Bailey Museum, South Haven, Michigan, October 5, 2019.
"'The Garden Sentiment' and the 'Patron Saint of American Gardening': Why We Need Liberty Hyde Bailey Today," special panel on the launch of The Liberty Hyde Bailey Gardener's Companion: Essential Writings, Cornell Botanic Gardens, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, September 15, 2019.
"The Holy Earth: A Genesis and a Renaissance," special panel on "100th Anniversary Edition of Liberty Hyde Bailey's The Holy Earth," Cornell University "Chats in the Stacks Book Talk," Ithaca, New York, April 19, 2016.
"'The New Rural Civilization,' Bailey's Vision, and What it Means for Us," Curator's Talk for the exhibition opening of "The Holy Earth Centennial: Bailey's Vision at 100," Liberty Hyde Bailey Museum, South Haven, Michigan, July 19, 2015.
"New Discoveries about L. H. Bailey and Why they may Alter his Legacy: Masonry, Race, Family and Fiction," Liberty Hyde Bailey Museum Summer Lecture Series, South Haven, Michigan, August 31, 2013.
"The Plants He Loved are Living: A Walking Tour," Liberty Hyde Bailey Museum Summer Lecture Series, South Haven, Michigan, August 2, 2013.
"The Liberty Hyde Bailey Interpretive Garden Path and the Sustainability Movement," Liberty Hyde Bailey Museum Summer Lecture Series, South Haven, Michigan, 2011.
"Reawakening to an Everyday Sublime on Walden Pond and Lake Michigan," Christ College "Word and Image" Plenary, Valparaiso U., Valparaiso, Indiana, 2010.
"A Savage Mountain Man and Clever Irony in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," Valparaiso University Celebration of Undergraduate Research, Valparaiso, Indiana, April 14, 2009.
Vallum: Contemporary Poetry issue launch, International Art Book Festival, Brooklyn, NY, September 22, 2019.
Home Voices Alumni Festival, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, January 27, 2019.
Dunes Review issue launch, Traverse City, MI, April 22, 2018.
Prairie Gold: An Anthology of the American Heartland launch, AWP offsite event, St. Paul, MN, April 9, 2015.
MFA Thesis Festival Reading, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, May 11, 2013.
Emergine Writers Reading Series, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, Fall 2012.
Mentor, NYU English Undergraduate Mentoring Program, Fall 2021-Spring 2022.
Coordinator, "Farm to Text" (Graduate Working Group), Fall 2015-Spring 2017.
PhD Representative, Graduate English Organization, Summer 2015-Spring 2016.
Member, Committee on Events and Public Programs, Summer 2015-Spring 2016.
Member, Everett Casey Nature Center and Reserve Stewardship Committee, Fall 2010-Spring 2013.
Nonfiction Reader, The Best of the Net Anthology, Sundress Publications, Fall 2020.
Peer reviewer (scholarly article), ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, Summer 2020.
Contest Judge, Wordfest, Critical Essay category, Valparaiso University, Spring 2019.
Contest Judge, inaugural Artivism (Art + Activism) Contest, The Lighter 64.2 (2018).
Literary Director, AgArts NYC Collective, May 2016-May 2017.
Contest Judge, Wordfest, Critical Essay category, Valparaiso University, Spring 2014.
Nonfiction Editor, Flyway: Journal of Writing and Environment, Iowa State University, August 2010-May 2012.
Curatorial Intern, Liberty Hyde Bailey Museum, South Haven, Michigan, May 2011-August 2011.
Richard R. Wright Award for best expository essay in rhetoric/composition, English Department, Iowa State U., (two-time winner), April 2013.
Critical Writing Award for best graduate student critical essay, English Department, Iowa State U., April 2012.
Richard R. Wright Award for best expository essay in rhetoric/composition, English Department, Iowa State U., (two-time winner), April 2012.
Christ College (Interdisciplinary Honors College) Scholar, Christ College, Valparaiso U., May 2010.
Induction into Phi Beta Kappa National Academic Honor Society, April 2010.
Donnelley Prize for best essay on humankind’s relationship with the environment (first two-time winner), Christ College, Valparaiso U., April 2010.
Lutheran Leader Intern Scholarship, Valparaiso U., August 2006-May 2010. A four-year, half-tuition scholarship including four years of internship supervision and leadership training.
Donnelley Prize for best essay on humankind’s relationship with the environment (first two-time winner), Christ College, Valparaiso U., April 2009.
Induction into Mortar Board National College Senior Honor Society, April 2009.
Board of Directors Award for best presentation in the Humanities category at the VU Celebration of Undergraduate Scholarship, Valparaiso U., April 2009.
Prahl Scholarship, English Department, Valparaiso U., April 2009.
Christ College (Interdisciplinary Honors College) Honors Thesis, “Towards a Frugal Land Ethic in American Federal Lands Management,” Valparaiso U., June 2008.
Induction into Sigma Tau Delta International English Honor Society, April 2008.
Academy of American Poets
Mortar Board, national academic honor society
Phi Beta Kappa, national academic honor society
Sigma Tau Delta, English honor society