Gary Snyder
	Snyder received his B.A. from Reed and also has an honorary Ph.D. in English. His areas of research are nature and culture in Buddhist societies; environmental ethics and deep ecology; the literature of nature, the history of 'place', 'the wild' and 'the commons'; the bioregional movement; and the politics of public lands. As a member of the writing program faculty, he is especially interested in developing the largest possible understanding of poetics and literary structures, contexts, and values. He would like to see "the humanities" rethought to include the preliterate, the primitive, the prehistoric, and perhaps even the non-human. He is one of the founding fathers of the Nature and Culture program at UC Davis. Among his recent publications are: The Practice of the Wild (essays), No Nature (poems), and A Place in Space (essays). He is working on a long poem-sequence exploring the play of mind and nature.
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