University of Arkansas at Little Rock

Jeremy Scott Ecke, PhD

Educational Background

PhD, Linguistic Emphasis, University of California at Berkeley, 2009
BA, Highest Honors, University of California at Davis, 2000

Teaching and Research Positions

• Assistant Professor of English, Belmont University, 2010-2012
• Holloway Postdoctoral Fellow in Poetry and Poetics, UC Berkeley, 2009-2010

Areas of Focus

Literary Linguistics, The History and Structure of English, Poetics, and Medieval Literature

Selected Presentations

• “Translating the Feminine in Anglo-Saxon Literature,” Liberating Voices: Negotiating the
  Challenges of Representing the Other. Belmont Humanities Symposium, September 2011.
• “Sound, Play, and Poetics in the History of English,” Creativity and Invention in Teaching,
  5th Annual Teaching Center Symposium. Belmont University, August 2011.
• “The Development of Form & Genre in 15th & 16th Century Alliterative Verse,” International
  Congress on Medieval Studies. Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, May 2011.
• “Voice and Performance in Anglo-Saxon Poetry,” Sewanee Medieval Colloquium, Voice, Gesture,
  Memory, and Performance in Medieval Texts, Culture, and Art. April 2011.
• “The Metrical Imagination,” The Marco Manuscript Workshop. Department of English,
  University of Tennessee, February 2011.
• “The Riddle of Reading Runes & Intertextuality in the Franks Casket,” God is in the Details:
  A Reflection on Methodology in the Humanities. Università degli Studi di Milano,
  June 2010.

Current Projects

• Dr Ecke is currently revising his recent presentations on runic interpretation, alliterative style, and the transmission of the feminine in Anglo-Saxon literature for publication. He is also working on a metrical treatise and an anthology of alliterative verse that will trace the formal and cultural lineage of the alliterative tradition from Old to Modern English, with particular attention to historical, national, and dialectical innovations.

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Nicole Seymour, PhD

Educational Background

PhD, Vanderbilt University
MA, Vanderbilt University
BA, University of California at Los Angeles

Areas of Focus

Modern American and British Literature, Environmental Studies, Queer Theory, Gender and Women’s Studies, Film Studies, Social Justice

Selected Publications

• ‘It’s Just Not Turning Up’: Cinematic Vision and Environmental Justice in Todd Haynes’ Safe.” Cinema Journal 50.4 (2011): 26-47.
• “Somatic Syntax: Replotting the Developmental Narrative in Carson McCullers’s The Member of the Wedding.” Studies in the Novel 41.3 (Fall 2009): 293-313.
• Strange Natures: The Ecological Imagination of Contemporary Queer Fictions (book manuscript).
• “Irony and Contemporary Ecocinema: Theorizing a New Affective Paradigm.” Moving Environments: Affect, Emotion, Ecology and Film. Ed. Alexa Weik von Mossner. Forthcoming from Wilfred Laurier UP.

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Laura Barrio-Vilar, PhD

Educational Background

PhD, University of Kentucky
MA, University of Kentucky
BA, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela

Areas of Focus

African-American Literature, Ethnic Literature, Post-colonial Studies, and Gender and Women’s Studies

Selected Publications

• “Racial Uplift Ideology and Black Womanhood in Frances Harper’s Serialized Novels.” Popular Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers and the Literary Marketplace. Eds. Earl Yarington and Mary De Jong. Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars, 2007. 405-31.
• “Getting a Taste of the Other: The Eighteenth-Century British Novel as the Epitome of Masquerade.” Cultura, Lenguaje y Representación / Culture, Language and Representation 1 (May 2004): 55-67.
• “Narrating the African Self in the Late Eighteenth Century: Issues of Voice, Authority, and Identity in Gronniosaw’s 1770 Narrative.” Journal of Kentucky Studies 20 (September 2003): 117-22.
• “Narrating the Slave Self in the Americas: Issues of Authority, Voice, and Identity in Cuban Narratives of Slavery.” Journal of Caribbean Studies 17.1-2 (Summer-Fall 2002): 33-50.

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Nickole Brown, MFA

Educational Background

MFA, Vermont College of the Fine Arts
English Speaking Union Scholar, Oxford University
BA, summa cum laude, English, University of Louisville

Areas of Focus

Creative Writing, Poetry Writing, Form and Theory of Poetry

Awards

• National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship
• The 2010 Orlando Prize for Poetry from A Room of Her Own Foundation
• Three Artist Enrichment Grants from the Kentucky Foundation for Women
• Al Smith Individual Artist Support Grant
• Individual Artist Professional Development Grant from the Kentucky Arts Council
• 2008 ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year finalist

Selected Publications

Author

• A Book of Birds: Poems (manuscript in progress)
• Sister: A Novel-in-Poems (Red Hen Press, 2007)

Co-editor

• All of Us, by Elisabeth Frost (The Marie Alexander Poetry Series of White Pine Press, 2011)
• Angles of Approach, by Holly Iglesias (The Marie Alexander Poetry Series of White Pine Press, 2010)
• Cut Away: A Novel, by Catherine Kirkwood (Arktoi Books of Red Hen Press, 2010)
• Air Fare: Stories, Poems & Essays on Flight (Sarabande Books, 2004)

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Kris McAbee, PhD

Educational Background

PhD, University of California at Santa Barbara
MA, New York University
BS, Vanderbilt University

Areas of Focus

Renaissance British Literature, Print History, Digital Humanities

Selected Publications

• “‘No public glory vainly I pursue’: The Paradox of Printing Sonneteers.” Early Modern Culture 8 (2010)
• “Vexed Impressions: Towards a Digital Archive of Broadside Ballad Illustrations” (with Patricia Fumerton) in New Technologies in Medieval and Renaissance Studies 3 (ITER, 2011): 259-87.
• “Broadside Ballads” in The Encyclopedia of English Renaissance Literature (Blackwell, 2011): 104-08.
• “Love Pleasant” and “Humours, Frollicks, etc.” in Broadside Ballads from the Pepys Collection. Forthcoming from ACMRS.