Samantha Harvey is an Associate Professor of English Literature at Boise State University. She studied at Harvard and Cambridge University, England. She has written extensively on nineteenth-century English and American literature including a recent book entitled Transatlantic Transcendentalism: Coleridge, Emerson and Nature (Edinburgh UP, 2013). She is currently working on an interdisciplinary project on “Reading the Book of Nature.” On a personal note, she competed in the sport of Modern Pentathlon at the 2004 Olympics in Athens.
