Steve Andrews teaches American Literature in the English Department at Grinnell College. In 1998 he received his PhD, with honors dissertation, from the University of Washington, where he was a Danforth-Compton Scholar. A published poet and scholar, he has published or forthcoming work on W.E.B. Du Bois and William James; civil rights and wilderness; and baseball, Romance and Reconstruction. He is currently at work on a book-length project dealing with Ralph Waldo Emerson and the poetics of landscape. His follow-up project, on Henry David Thoreau and covenants of friendship, community, and nationhood, deals in a major way with the premises of the course he will teach fall of 2008 in the Grinnell-in-Washington DC program, Walking Washington: Civil Resistance and National Attractions.