Jency Wilson, Ph.D.

 jency-wilson.jpg

Research and Teaching Fields: 19th and 20th Century American Literature, Ecocriticism, Southern Studies, Film Studies, Environmental Justice

Education:

Institution Degree Year
Middle Tennessee State University Ph.D. in English 2021
糖心Vlog M.A. in English 2016
University of Alabama B.A. in English 2014

Publications:

  • “Space and Race ‘Since Those Days’: Environmental (In)Justice in Holly Springs, Mississippi, and Robert Altman’s Cookie’s Fortune.” Forgotten Spaces: Environmental Justice and the U.S. South, edited by Catherine Bowlin and Katie Simon, University of Georgia Press, Forthcoming.
  • “Pseudonature in Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth.” The Nonhuman in American Literary Naturalism, edited by Karin Danielsson and Kenneth Brandt, Lexington: Ecocritical Theory and Practice Series, 2023.
  • “Reverse Rumspringa: Peter Weir’s Witness as ‘Cultural Kamikaze.’” Co-authored with Will Underland. Film as an Expression of Spirituality: The Arts & Faith Top 100 Films, edited by Kenneth Morefield, 2023.

Courses Taught:

  • EN 222: American Literature Whitman to Present
  • EN 301: Introduction to Literary Studies
  • EN 613: American Literature 1900 to 1945