Ethan Mannon
Ethan Mannon lives in the mountains of Tennessee with his wife and children. He is an Associate Professor of English at Mars Hill University, where he teaches American and Appalachian Literature, as well as composition. He is the Director of the MHU Honors Program and one of the founders of the MHU Heritage Garden. Wendell Berry’s fiction sits at the center of his personal and professional interests, as well as of his recent book, The Georgic Mode in Twentieth-Century American Literature: The Satisfactions of Soil and Sweat (Lexington Books, 2024).
Articles by Ethan Mannon
America’s Regional Fences
Robert Frost begins one of his best known poems by stating, “Something there is that doesn’t love a wall.” The New England poet is appropriately vague: he does not know…
Conservation by the Yard
I begin with a proposition adapted from Wendell Berry—namely, that mowing is an ecological act. Mowing extends the perennial drama of photosynthesis and carbon cycling. Too few lawn owners, however,…
Backyard Beekeeping
I had long resisted adding ten thousand new livestock to our less than two acres. I had listened to beekeepers’ tales of bears and had read enough about varroa mites…