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 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 Not Till We Are Lost: Thoreau, Education, and Climate Crisis (Mercer University Press, 2024), An Ecology of Communication: Response and Responsibility in an Age of Ecocrisis (Lexington Books, 2021), and The Active Soul: Emerson and Thoreau on Reform and Civil Disobedience (forthcoming from Mercer University Press in spring 2025). He has expertise in environmental ethics, ecophilosophy, ecopsychology, ecotheology and ecospirituality, environmental communication, and creative nonfiction. He is a member of the International Environmental Communication Association (IECA), the National Communication Association (NCA), and The Thoreau Society.

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.