VERA NORWOOD
Interim Dean, College of Arts and Science; Professor of American Studies

A feminist scholar with major research interests in women’s responses to nature and the built environment. Norwood has published work on Rachel Carson, Mary Austin, Laura Gilpin, and a wide variety of Southwestern women writers and artists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

In Made from this Earth: American Women and Nature (1993), she explores the relationship of women to the natural environment through the work of writers, illustrators, landscape and garden designers, ornithologists, botanists, biologists and conservationists. With Janice Monk (University of Arizona), she has edited The Desert is No Lady: Women Writers and Artists of the Southwest (1987).

She has received grants from the Rockefeller Foundation, American Council of Learned Societies, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the New Mexico Humanities Council. She teaches courses on environmental studies, American landscapes, women culture in the United States, and Southwest Studies.

Publications

Made from this Earth: American Women and Nature (1993).
The Desert is No Lady: Women Writers and Artists of the Southwest (1987).

Courses