Paul Bogard earned his PhD in Literature and Environment at the University of Nevada, Reno in August of 2007. He is now visiting assistant professor of English at Northland College in Ashland, Wisconsin, teaching courses in American Literature, Nature Writers, and Environmental History. In the Spring of 2008 he taught “Acquainted with the Night,” a month-long interdisciplinary literature course focused on night. His recently edited collection, Let There Be Night: Testimony on Behalf of the Dark, was published by the University of Nevada Press in September 2008.