Rochelle Johnson is a professor of English and environmental studies at the College of Idaho. She is a past president of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE). She is the coeditor, with Daniel Patterson, of two volumes of Susan Fenimore Cooper's writings "Rural Hours" and "Essays on Nature and Landscape" as well as a collection of scholarly essays, "Susan Fenimore Cooper: New Essays on Rural Hours and Other Works" (all published by Georgia).