I am an educator and a writer.

My writing explores natural history,
literature, and disability.

Through teaching and outreach,
I study material culture and
the environmental humanities.

We express our sense of our relationship to nature in many ways: through art, literature, and science, and even through the landscapes we call home. I study these forms of expression, as well as what they reveal about our past, present, and collective future.

 EVENTS: OR, WHERE IS ROCHELLE?

October 3-5, 2025
EXPANDING CIRCLES: TRANSCENDENTALISM’S PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE
Invited Participant, Seminar/Workshop Hosted by the Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard University
Held at the Concord Museum, Massachusetts

September 8, 2025
OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN THE HUMANITIES AWARD: HONORING ROCHELLE L. JOHNSON
Recipient of Idaho Humanities Council’s Highest Honor
Idaho Humanities Council, Boise, Idaho

Summer 2025
WRITING THE BODY IN PLACE and THOREAU’S WALDEN: ON MATTER, NATURE, and MEANING
Teaching Faculty of these 2 Courses
Bread Loaf School of English, Vermont

June 7, 2025
HOSTING OF THE 2025 THOREAU PRIZE IN LITERARY NATURE WRITING: HONORING ROBERT MACFARLANE
Award Committee Chair, Thoreau Prize Committee
Concord, Massachusetts; Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5p7iRlKwIpE

May 1, 2025 at 7PM Eastern Time
LECTURE: THE MAKING OF A YOUNG NATURALIST: SUSAN FENIMORE COOPER’S GRAND EUROPEAN TOUR (via ZOOM)
Watch here: Susan Fenimore Cooper's Youth in Europe: The Making of Environmental Understanding
Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown, New York

October 25, 2024
HOSTING OF THE 2024 THOREAU PRIZE IN LITERARY NATURE WRITING: HONORING J. DREW LANHAM
Award Committee Chair, Thoreau Prize Committee
Concord, Massachusetts; Recording: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SQy4SKzC9Yw