EDUCATION
Ph.D. English, Texas A&M University 2012
M.A. English, SUNY New Paltz 2005
B.A. Secondary Ed/English, SUNY New Paltz
Minors: Journalism, Religious Studies 2001
M.A. English, SUNY New Paltz 2005
B.A. Secondary Ed/English, SUNY New Paltz
Minors: Journalism, Religious Studies 2001
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Teaching:
Visiting Assistant Professor, Oklahoma State University 2013 – Present
Lecturer, Oklahoma State University 2012-2013
Graduate Assistant Teacher, Texas A&M University 2006 – 2012
Teaching Assistant, SUNY New Paltz 2002 – 2005
Professional Tutor, SUNY New Paltz, Educational Opportunity Program 2004 – 2006
Courses Taught
American Ethnic Literature Freshman Composition I
American Literature 1865 – Present Freshman Composition II
Composition and Rhetoric Introduction to Literature
Eco-composition Technical Writing
Writing and Publishing:
Editor, “Forgive Us, Wolves: A German Soldier at the Russian Front,” memoir manuscript by Klaus J. Kronenberg, 2008.
Acquisitions Intern, Texas A&M University Press, College Station, TX. 2007 - 2008.
Contributing Writer, Ulster Publishing, Woodstock, N.Y., 2001 – 2002
Visiting Assistant Professor, Oklahoma State University 2013 – Present
Lecturer, Oklahoma State University 2012-2013
Graduate Assistant Teacher, Texas A&M University 2006 – 2012
Teaching Assistant, SUNY New Paltz 2002 – 2005
Professional Tutor, SUNY New Paltz, Educational Opportunity Program 2004 – 2006
Courses Taught
American Ethnic Literature Freshman Composition I
American Literature 1865 – Present Freshman Composition II
Composition and Rhetoric Introduction to Literature
Eco-composition Technical Writing
Writing and Publishing:
Editor, “Forgive Us, Wolves: A German Soldier at the Russian Front,” memoir manuscript by Klaus J. Kronenberg, 2008.
Acquisitions Intern, Texas A&M University Press, College Station, TX. 2007 - 2008.
Contributing Writer, Ulster Publishing, Woodstock, N.Y., 2001 – 2002
Research and Teaching Interests
American literature Composition & rhetoric
Environmental studies/ecocriticism Regional literature
Southern literature Modernism
Multi-Ethnic literature Poetry
Environmental studies/ecocriticism Regional literature
Southern literature Modernism
Multi-Ethnic literature Poetry
Book Project
Owning and Belonging: Ecopoetics and Environmental Justice in the South
My research engages a number of currents in environmental criticism and Southern studies in an analysis of the poetry, fiction, and non-fiction of the southeastern United States. I argue that the concerns of ecopoetics and environmental justice—two of the main threads in environmental literary scholarship—neatly join in the literature of the South. The intersection of individual and social relationships with history and nature in Southern literature provides new models for thinking about human relationships with the environment and how those values are communicated. I argue that these expressions of environmental ownership and belonging suggest methods through which individuals and groups can better understand their distance from, and proximity to, their environments. This provides new valuations of personal and social interactions with the environment, particularly as articulated in Southern literature and culture.
My research engages a number of currents in environmental criticism and Southern studies in an analysis of the poetry, fiction, and non-fiction of the southeastern United States. I argue that the concerns of ecopoetics and environmental justice—two of the main threads in environmental literary scholarship—neatly join in the literature of the South. The intersection of individual and social relationships with history and nature in Southern literature provides new models for thinking about human relationships with the environment and how those values are communicated. I argue that these expressions of environmental ownership and belonging suggest methods through which individuals and groups can better understand their distance from, and proximity to, their environments. This provides new valuations of personal and social interactions with the environment, particularly as articulated in Southern literature and culture.
Publications
Articles:
“Rootedness and Mobility: Southern Sacrifice Zones in Ron Rash’s Serena.” Mississippi Quarterly (Special Issue
on 21st Century Southern Novel). Under review.
"Ironic Pastorals and Beautiful Swamps: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Troubled Landscapes of the American South." Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment (ISLE). 22.3 (2015): 485-506. Print.
“Roberts in the Environment.” The Elizabeth Madox Roberts Society Newsletter. Forthcoming.
“Kentucky Memories.” The Elizabeth Madox Roberts Society Newsletter. 12 (2011): 11. Print.
“Exploring the Self, Exploring the Other: Inscape and Instress in The Great Meadow.” Elizabeth Madox Roberts: Essays of Reassessment & Reclamation. H.R. Stoneback, Steven Florczyk, eds. Nicholasville, KY: Wind Publications, 2008. Print.
“Discovering the Sacred Light of Secular Conditions: Coleridge’s Light of the Imagination in Warren’s Criticism and Poetry.” Shawangunk Review 17 (2006): 38-43. Print.
“The Marriage of Elf and Man: Unifying Immortal and Mortal in Tolkien’s Mythology” Shawangunk Review 16 (2005): 27-31. Print.
Reviews:
Delta Fragments: The Recollections of a Sharecropper’s Son, by John O. Hodges. Journal of American Culture. 37.3 (2014): 354-355. Print.
Learning the Valley: Excursions into the Shenandoah Valley, by John Leland. ISLE. 18.3 (2011): 686-688. Print.
Clear Cutting Eden, by Christopher Rieger. Arkansas Literary Review 1.1 (2011): 73-77. Web. 1 July 2011.
Encyclopedia Entries:
Encyclopedia of the Environment in American Literature. Eds. Geoff Hamilton and Brian Jones. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2013. Print
Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums
Leo Marx, The Machine in the Garden
Elizabeth Madox Roberts, The Great Meadow and “Life and Works”
Jean Toomer, Cane
Robert Penn Warren, “Life and Works”
“Rootedness and Mobility: Southern Sacrifice Zones in Ron Rash’s Serena.” Mississippi Quarterly (Special Issue
on 21st Century Southern Novel). Under review.
"Ironic Pastorals and Beautiful Swamps: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Troubled Landscapes of the American South." Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment (ISLE). 22.3 (2015): 485-506. Print.
“Roberts in the Environment.” The Elizabeth Madox Roberts Society Newsletter. Forthcoming.
“Kentucky Memories.” The Elizabeth Madox Roberts Society Newsletter. 12 (2011): 11. Print.
“Exploring the Self, Exploring the Other: Inscape and Instress in The Great Meadow.” Elizabeth Madox Roberts: Essays of Reassessment & Reclamation. H.R. Stoneback, Steven Florczyk, eds. Nicholasville, KY: Wind Publications, 2008. Print.
“Discovering the Sacred Light of Secular Conditions: Coleridge’s Light of the Imagination in Warren’s Criticism and Poetry.” Shawangunk Review 17 (2006): 38-43. Print.
“The Marriage of Elf and Man: Unifying Immortal and Mortal in Tolkien’s Mythology” Shawangunk Review 16 (2005): 27-31. Print.
Reviews:
Delta Fragments: The Recollections of a Sharecropper’s Son, by John O. Hodges. Journal of American Culture. 37.3 (2014): 354-355. Print.
Learning the Valley: Excursions into the Shenandoah Valley, by John Leland. ISLE. 18.3 (2011): 686-688. Print.
Clear Cutting Eden, by Christopher Rieger. Arkansas Literary Review 1.1 (2011): 73-77. Web. 1 July 2011.
Encyclopedia Entries:
Encyclopedia of the Environment in American Literature. Eds. Geoff Hamilton and Brian Jones. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2013. Print
Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums
Leo Marx, The Machine in the Garden
Elizabeth Madox Roberts, The Great Meadow and “Life and Works”
Jean Toomer, Cane
Robert Penn Warren, “Life and Works”
Select Conferences and Presentations
“’True news of man down here’ The Subatomic, Subaltern, and Subterranean Sublime in Cormac McCarthy’s Suttree.” ASLE Eleventh Biennial Conference, Moscow, ID June 2015.
“Southern Migrations: Wilderness, Pastoral, and Urbanity in Cormac McCarthy’s Suttree.” ASLE Tenth Biennial Conference, Lawrence, KS, May 2013.
“Environmental Justice and Justice for the Environment: The Appeals of History and Ecopoetics in John Graves’s Goodbye to a River.” 47th Annual Conference of the Western Literature Association, Lubbock, TX, November 2012.
“Brother to Dragons: Portrait of the Poem as the Maker of the Poet.” Robert Penn Warren Circle Meeting, Bowling Green and Guthrie, KY, April 2011.
“‘Use It Well': Progress, Reciprocal Ownership, and the Environment in Go Down, Moses." Modern Language Association Annual Conference, Philadelphia, PA, December 2009.
“Canned Peaches in the Waste Land: The Mystery and Ecology of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road.” South Atlantic Modern Language Association 2008 Annual Conference, Louisville, KY November 2008.
“‘Country you could walk into’: Mystical Enthymemes in Hemingway’s Early Short Stories.” 13th Biennial International Hemingway Society Conference, Kansas City, MO, June 2008.
“‘Honey of Life in Her Heart:’ Ecological Immersion in The Time of Man.” American Literature Association 19th Annual Conference, San Francisco, CA, May 2008.
“Inscape, Instress, and Matter: Gerard Manley Hopkins and Bishop Berkeley in the Writings of Elizabeth Madox Roberts.” South Atlantic Modern Language Association 2007 Annual Conference, Atlanta, GA, November 2007.
“Outside the Circle at 38,000 Feet: Warren’s ‘Pathological Flinch,’ Attraction, Reaction, and Conversation with Emerson.” Robert Penn Warren Circle Meeting, Bowling Green and Guthrie, KY, April 2007.
“Self, Identity, and Knowledge: Merging the Familiar and the Strange in The Haunted Mirror.” 9th Annual Conference, Elizabeth Madox Roberts Society, Harrodsburg and Springfield, KY, April 2007.
“Sensuality and Religion in Arturo Islas’s The Rain God.” Intersecting Identities, Graduate Student Colloquium, College Station, TX, February 2007.
“Southern Migrations: Wilderness, Pastoral, and Urbanity in Cormac McCarthy’s Suttree.” ASLE Tenth Biennial Conference, Lawrence, KS, May 2013.
“Environmental Justice and Justice for the Environment: The Appeals of History and Ecopoetics in John Graves’s Goodbye to a River.” 47th Annual Conference of the Western Literature Association, Lubbock, TX, November 2012.
“Brother to Dragons: Portrait of the Poem as the Maker of the Poet.” Robert Penn Warren Circle Meeting, Bowling Green and Guthrie, KY, April 2011.
“‘Use It Well': Progress, Reciprocal Ownership, and the Environment in Go Down, Moses." Modern Language Association Annual Conference, Philadelphia, PA, December 2009.
“Canned Peaches in the Waste Land: The Mystery and Ecology of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road.” South Atlantic Modern Language Association 2008 Annual Conference, Louisville, KY November 2008.
“‘Country you could walk into’: Mystical Enthymemes in Hemingway’s Early Short Stories.” 13th Biennial International Hemingway Society Conference, Kansas City, MO, June 2008.
“‘Honey of Life in Her Heart:’ Ecological Immersion in The Time of Man.” American Literature Association 19th Annual Conference, San Francisco, CA, May 2008.
“Inscape, Instress, and Matter: Gerard Manley Hopkins and Bishop Berkeley in the Writings of Elizabeth Madox Roberts.” South Atlantic Modern Language Association 2007 Annual Conference, Atlanta, GA, November 2007.
“Outside the Circle at 38,000 Feet: Warren’s ‘Pathological Flinch,’ Attraction, Reaction, and Conversation with Emerson.” Robert Penn Warren Circle Meeting, Bowling Green and Guthrie, KY, April 2007.
“Self, Identity, and Knowledge: Merging the Familiar and the Strange in The Haunted Mirror.” 9th Annual Conference, Elizabeth Madox Roberts Society, Harrodsburg and Springfield, KY, April 2007.
“Sensuality and Religion in Arturo Islas’s The Rain God.” Intersecting Identities, Graduate Student Colloquium, College Station, TX, February 2007.
Awards
Visiting Assistant Professor Travel Award. Department of English, Oklahoma State University. Spring 2015
Travel to Conference Grant. The Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research, Texas A&M University. Spring 2010.
Travel to Conference Grant. The Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research, Texas A&M University. Spring 2010.
Certificates and Training
Diversity Workshop, Oklahoma State University, Provost's Initiative: Focus on General Education: 2014-2015
Preparing Online Instructors, Oklahoma State University, Institute for Teaching and Learning Excellence: Fall 2014.
Preparing Online Instructors, Oklahoma State University, Institute for Teaching and Learning Excellence: Fall 2014.
Professional Service
Panel Chair, “Fyodor? Meet Cormac.” ASLE Eleventh Biennial Conference, Moscow, ID June 2015.
Peer Review Reader, Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment (ISLE), 2015
Introduction to Literature Textbook Committee, Oklahoma State University, 2014-2015
Advisory Board and Peer Review Reader, Arkansas Literary Review, 2010 – 2011.
Organizer & Panel Chair, “The Preservation of Place: Regionalism and Ecological Conservation.” South Atlantic Modern Language Association 2010 Annual Conference, Atlanta, Ga. November 2010.
Guest Lecturer for Dr. Nicholas Lawrence, American Literature: Colonial to American Renaissance, Texas A&M University, April 2010: “Character and the Rights of Man in Herman Melville’s Billy Budd” and “Poetry and Experience in Walt Whitman’s Song of Myself.”
Department of English Executive Committee, Graduate Student Representative, Texas A&M University 2008 – 2009.
English Graduate Student Association, Co-President, Texas A&M University 2007-2008.
Organizer and Panel Chair, "Elizabeth Madox Roberts: Romanticism, Ecology, and Poetic Realism." American Literature Association 19th Annual Conference, San Francisco, Ca. May 2008.
English Graduate Student Association, Fund Raising Committee, Texas A&M University 2006 – 2007
Peer Review Reader, Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment (ISLE), 2015
Introduction to Literature Textbook Committee, Oklahoma State University, 2014-2015
Advisory Board and Peer Review Reader, Arkansas Literary Review, 2010 – 2011.
Organizer & Panel Chair, “The Preservation of Place: Regionalism and Ecological Conservation.” South Atlantic Modern Language Association 2010 Annual Conference, Atlanta, Ga. November 2010.
Guest Lecturer for Dr. Nicholas Lawrence, American Literature: Colonial to American Renaissance, Texas A&M University, April 2010: “Character and the Rights of Man in Herman Melville’s Billy Budd” and “Poetry and Experience in Walt Whitman’s Song of Myself.”
Department of English Executive Committee, Graduate Student Representative, Texas A&M University 2008 – 2009.
English Graduate Student Association, Co-President, Texas A&M University 2007-2008.
Organizer and Panel Chair, "Elizabeth Madox Roberts: Romanticism, Ecology, and Poetic Realism." American Literature Association 19th Annual Conference, San Francisco, Ca. May 2008.
English Graduate Student Association, Fund Raising Committee, Texas A&M University 2006 – 2007
Professional Memberships
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment (ASLE)
Society for the Study of Southern Literature (SSSL)
Robert Penn Warren Circle
Nick Adams Society
Elizabeth Madox Roberts Society
Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment (ASLE)
Society for the Study of Southern Literature (SSSL)
Robert Penn Warren Circle
Nick Adams Society
Elizabeth Madox Roberts Society