Jeffrey Mathes McCarthy has written four books and many academic articles. He has also published in both popular sailing media and climbing magazines. His books include Contact: Mountain Climbing and Environmental Thinking (University of Nevada Press, 2008) Green Modernism: Nature and the English Novel, 1900-1930 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015) Conrad & Nature: New Essays (Routledge, 2019) and Re-envisioning the Anthropocene Ocean (University of Utah Press, 2023).

He has been a Fulbright fellow, a Mellon Fellow to the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas, and he has held research fellowships to the National Humanities Center, the Calgary Institute for the Humanities, and the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at Edinburgh University.

He was the Director of Environmental Humanities at the University of Utah. Before that, he was a Professor of English and the founding Director of Environmental Studies at Westminster College.

Photos by Jeffrey McCarthy