Peter Quigley

In 2019, Dr. Quigley published The Forbidden Subject: How Oppositional Aesthetics Banished Natural Beauty from the Arts. Before that book, Quigley published Housing the Environmental Imagination: Beauty Politics and Refuge in American Nature Writing (2012). He also edited two collections of articles: Coyote in the Maze: Tracking Edward Abbey in a World of Words (1998) and Ecocritical Aesthetics: Language, Beauty, and the Environment (2018).

Most recently, Quigley retired (8/21) from his position as professor of English at the University of Hawaii, Manoa. Previously, he was Associate Vice President for the University of Hawaii system of colleges. In addition, he served as Interim Vice Chancellor of Academics at the University of Hawaii, Manoa, Chancellor of Leeward College, Dean of the Arts and Humanities College at Minnesota State University, and Dean/CAO and Chair of Humanities and Social Sciences at Embry Riddle Aeronautical University, Prescott AZ.

Quigley has a Ph.D. from Indiana University of Pennsylvania, and a BA, MA from California State University. He lives on the Big Island of Hawaii with his wife Polly, his sons Daniel and Dylan, and two Golden Retrievers, Kona and Hawi.