About

William Homestead had a long association with the Ometeca Institute, an education nonprofit devoted to the integration of the sciences and the humanities and dialogue among scholars from diverse countries, especially the US and within Latin America. His work with Ometeca, along with his interdisciplinary degrees (MS in Environmental Studies, MA in Communication Studies, and MFA in Creative Writing), study with a spiritual teacher, and hiking experiences, informs his writing and teaching.

Homestead is the author of An Ecology of Communication: Response and Responsibility in an Age of Ecocrisis (Lexington Books, 2021) and Not Till We Are Lost: Thoreau, Education, and Climate Crisis (Mercer University Press, 2024), which was a finalist for the Vermont Book Award in Creative Nonfiction. He is the editor of the anthology, The Active Soul: Emerson and Thoreau on Reform and Civil Disobedience (Mercer University Press, 2025). The Active Soul includes his 36-page introduction, “From Abolitionism to Climate Justice.”

Homestead has expertise in environmental ethics, ecophilosophy, ecopsychology, ecotheology and ecospirituality, environmental communication, and creative nonfiction. He is a member of The Thoreau Society, the International Environmental Communication Association (IECA), and the National Communication Association (NCA).

Homestead's pedagogical approach encourages learning in three interrelated areas—the development of a critical, creative, and eco-social awareness—and he has been teaching college students for over twenty-five years. One of his favorite courses to teach is The Voice of Nature. He lives in Vermont, loves sports, and spends much time walking in the woods with his dog, Snoopy, who was named by his three children.