1933
Born in New York City, NY.
1954
Earns a Bachelor of Arts from Brooklyn College of the City University of New York.
1956
Earns a Master of Arts from Columbia University.
1960
Teaches as an instructor in the English department at the newly founded Oakland University in Rochester, MI
1962
Earns a Doctor of Philosophy in English from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
1962
Teaches as an assistant professor of English at Wayne State University.
1967
Writes Bernard Shaw and the Theater in the Nineties.
1968
Teaches as an assistant professor of English at Brooklyn College through 1970.
1970
Marries Gloria Glikin who passes away on 1992.
1970
Teaches as an associate professor of English at Indiana University Northwest through 1980.
1990
Becomes a regular contributor to The Hudson Review, a quarterly journal focusing on literature and the arts, for more than 25 years.
1991
Completes Academic Capitalism and Literary Value.
1993
Recruited as a visiting professor of English at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
1995
Is appointed to the advisory board for the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE).
1996
Arranges with Cheryll Glotfelty to co-edit The Ecocriticism Reader: Landmarks in Literary Ecology, which was published to much acclaim.
1998
Is a university associate in English at the University of Arizona and presently maintains this role.
2009
Publishes The Nature of Being Human: From Environmentalism to Consciousness via the Johns Hopkins University Press.