Rae Raptor

MEDIA

Rae Raptor standing at right at Rab Stage, Banff

Featured Media

Panelist, Flow: Women’s Counternarratives from Rivers, Rock, and Sky, Banff Mountain Film and Book Festival, 2025 

Moderator Katie Ives, panelists Alena Rainsberry, Denisa Krásná, Rae Raptor

Flow June 5-Seattle film announcement photo

Supporting role in the documentary Flow: Voices from Rivers, Rock, and Sky, 2026

“Slacklining Senior” at Golden Gate Bridge (printed in newspaper)

“Slacklining Senior: Sparks Woman Reaches New Slacklining Heights, Aims to Become World's Oldest Highliner"

Amy Alonzo, Reno Gazette-Journal, 2021

Link to article
Flow book cover image of Brenda Gómez Ortiz on yellow highline

"Your First Mistake Was to Call Me an Old Lady—Highlining Over Sixty"

Chapter in Flow: Women’s Counternarratives from Rivers, Rock, and Sky, Rocky Mountain Books, 2025

Speaking

Rae Raptor slackline demo at Carmel of Reno Monastery

Rae Raptor demonstrating slacklining at Carmel of Reno Monastery, 2023

Topics Include

•      Aging and Reinvention

•      Fear and Courage

•      Balance On and Off the Slackline

•      Adventure, Meaning, and Faith

Past Appearances

  • Panelist for “Flow—Women’s Anthology.”  Banff Mountain Film and Book Festival. November 8, 2025.

  • "What Makes Me Come Alive—Slacklining!"  Carmel of Reno Monastery. March 10, 2023.

  • "Your First Mistake Was to Call Me an Old Lady—Highlining Over Sixty."  Jaramillo Highline Festival, Pachuca, Mexico. October 29, 2022.

  • "My #Slacklife."  Rotary Club, Sparks, Nevada. August 11, 2021.

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Professor Cheryll Glotfelty (Rae Raptor) at the University of Nevada, Reno

Professor Cheryll Glotfelty (Rae Raptor) at the University of Nevada, Reno

Rae Raptor highlining in northern Nevada

Rae Raptor highlining in northern Nevada

Rae Raptor on a highline journey in Chinchero, Peru

Rae Raptor on a highline journey in Chinchero, Peru

Rae Raptor balancing on post at marina

Rae Raptor and the joy of balance

Rae Raptor highlining above Reno

  Rae Raptor highlining above Reno

Background & Credentials

(as Cheryll Glotfelty)

Employment and Education

  • Professor of Literature and Environment, University of Nevada, Reno, 1990-2018

  • PhD in English, Cornell University, 1990

  • MA in English, Cornell University, 1987

  • MA in Communication Arts, Western Colorado University, 1983

  • BA in English, University of California, Davis, 1982

Selected Academic Books

The Ecocriticism Reader (co-edited with Harold Fromm, University of Georgia Press, 1996)

The Ecocriticism Reader (co-edited with Harold Fromm, University of Georgia Press, 1996)

The Biosphere and the Bioregion (co-edited with Eve Quesnel, Routledge, 2015)

The Biosphere and the Bioregion (co-edited with Eve Quesnel, Routledge, 2015)

The Bioregional Imagination (co-edited with Tom Lynch and Karla Armbruster, University of Georgia Press, 2012)

The Bioregional Imagination (co-edited with Tom Lynch and Karla Armbruster, University of Georgia Press, 2012)

Literary Nevada (University of Nevada Press, 2008)

Literary Nevada (University of Nevada Press, 2008)

Peter Goin and the Photography of Environmental Change (with Peter Goin, Routledge, 2023)

Peter Goin and the Photography of Environmental Change (with Peter Goin, Routledge, 2023)

Selected Teaching Awards

  • Outstanding Teaching of the Humanities Award, Nevada Humanities, 2017

  • Susan J. Rosowski Award for outstanding teaching and mentoring, Western Literature Association, 2010

  • Nevada Professor of the Year Award, CASE-Carnegie Foundation, 2006

  • Nevada Regents’ Teaching Award, 2003

  • F. Donald Tibbitts Distinguished Teacher Award, University of Nevada, 2000

Environmental Humanities Leadership

  • Co-founder, Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE), 1992

    • Vice-President, ASLE, 1992-1993

    • President, ASLE, 1993-1995

  • Co-founder and Associate Editor, ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, 1992-1996