Saving Place
Sidney I. Dobrinis Associate Professor of English and Director of Writing Programs in English at the University of Florida where he teaches composition theory, technical and professional writing, ecocriticism, environmental rhetoric, and the literature of fishing.  He also serves on the faculty for the College of Natural Resources and Environmental Studies at UF.  He received his Ph.D in Rhetoric and Composition in 1995 from the University of South Florida.   He is author ofSaving Place: An Ecocomposition Reader;A Closer Look: The Writer's Reader; andConstructing Knowledges: The Politics of Theory-Building and Pedagogy in Composition, and he is co-editor ofComposition Theory for the Postmodern Classroom(with Gary A. Olson),The Kinneavy Papers: Theory and the Study of Discourse(with Gary A. Olson and Lynn Worsham),Ecocomposition: Theoretical and Pedagogical Approaches(with Christian Weisser).  He is also co-author ofNatural Discourse: Composition Studies and Environmental Theory(with Christian Weisser). He has also writtenDistance Casting: Words and Ways of the Saltwater Fishing Life. His articles and essays cover a range of subjects about composition theory and  writing and have appeared in a variety of journals and books. He is past co-editor ofJAC: A Journal of Composition Theory.   Dobrin is a former field editor with Florida’sThe Fishermanmagazine and writes freelance articles for various fishing and outdoor magazines. When he is not teaching or writing, Dobrin spends his free time in, on, or under the water, and like Paul, in the movie version ofA River Runs Through It, only needs another three years until he will be able to think like a fish.