portrait of Jeremy Ecke

Interim Dean, College of Humanities, Arts, Social Sciences, and Education
Associate Professor

Office: 201-G Fine Arts
Email: [email protected]

Educational Background

  • Ph.D., English with Linguistic Emphasis, University of California at Berkeley, 2009
  • B.A., Highest Honors, University of California at Davis, 2000

Academic and Administrative Positions

  • Interim Dean, CHASSE, July 2025-Current
  • Interim Associate Dean of College Operations, CHASSE, July 2022-June 2025
  • Director of Undergraduate Research, UA Little Rock, August 2019-June 2022
  • Associate Professor, Chair, Department of English, UA Little Rock, June 2018-June 2022
  • Director of Signature Experience Research and Creative Works Program, UA Little Rock, August 2018-August 2019
  • Student Success Coordinator, Department of English, UA Little Rock, August 2016-May 2018
  • Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, August 2012-May 2018
  • Assistant Professor, Department of English, Belmont University, Nashville Tennessee, August 2010-May 2012
  • Holloway Postdoctoral Fellow in Poetry and Poetics, Department of English, University of California at Berkeley, June 2009-July 2010
  • Teaching Associate, Department of English, University of California at Berkeley, Spring 2004-Spring 2009

Areas of Focus

  • Metrics and Poetics: Rhyme, Alliteration, and Phonology
  • Linguistic Approaches to Literature
  • The History and Structure of English & English as a World Language

Selected Publications

  • Ecke, Jeremy. “Crowdsourcing: Language, Culture, and Student Exchange.” ESL Studies:  Current Issues and Strategies, ed. Elena Polyudova, Cambridge Scholars Press, 2018. Print.
  • Ecke, Jeremy. “Na Ilka Daie Leid: Poetry and Linguistic Preservation,” Tłumaczenie pezji-negocjowanie wyobraźni. Poszukiwaniu formy. Warsaw: UKSW Press, 2017. Print.
  • Ecke, Jeremy. “Let all your Verse be Literall: Innovation and Identity in Scottish Alliterative Verse.” Medievalia et Humanistica, New Series, Number 41 (Reinhold F. Glei and Maik Goth, eds.), Rowan & Littlefield, 2016. Print.

Selected Presentations

  • “Concatenation, Constituency, and the Alliterative Line.” Frontiers in Comparative Metrics III. Estonia, September 2017.
  • “Crowdsourcing: Language, Culture, and Student Exchange.” English as a Second Language Studies: Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association, November 13, 2016.
  • “The Poetics of Translation and Transmission in Synthetic Scots.” Tłumaczenie poezji –negocjowanie wyobraźni: W poszukiwaniu formy (Poetry Translation – Negotiating the Imagination: Quest for Form), Uniwersytet Kardynała Stefana Wyszyńskiego, Warsaw, October 20, 2016.
  • “Engaging English: An Active Approach to English Grammar Instruction.” Expo Internacional Lengua y Cultura: La Lingüística y los Idiomas, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Hidalgo, September 30, 2015.
  • “Yo’ Sto’: Community and Language from MLK to Central High.” Arkansas Philological Association Conference, Arkansas State, Oct. 15-17, 2015.
  •  “Linguistic and Cultural Exchange in World Englishes.” Keynote Speech: 2014 International Language and Culture Expo: Interculturality and Languages, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Hidalgo. September 24, 2014.
  •  “Let all your Verse be Literal: Innovation and Identity in Scottish Alliterative Verse.” Writing Identity: 14th International Conference of Medieval and Renaissance Scottish Literature. Ruhr University, Bochum, Germany. July 28-31, 2014.
  • “Meter, Measure, and Interpretability: A Morphology of Medieval Poetics.” 48th International Congress on Medieval Studies. Kalamazoo, MI. May 9-12, 2013.
  • “Alliteration and Innovation: Rethinking the Alliterative Line.” Folklore Society, the University of Tartu, and the Warburg Institute. Alliterativa Causa: A Conference about Alliteration and Prose. Warburg Institute, London, UK. 18 January 2013.
  • “The Development of Form & Genre in 15th & 16th Century Alliterative Verse.” International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, May 12-15, 2011.
  • “Voice and Performance in Anglo-Saxon Poetry.” Sewanee Medieval Colloquium: Voice, Gesture, Memory, and Performance in Medieval Texts, Culture, and Art, April 8-9, 2011.
  • “The Metrical Imagination.” The Marco Manuscript Workshop: Department of English, University of Tennessee. February 5, 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 10-11, 2010.
  • “Medieval Measure: A New Alliterative Line.” Modern Language Association Annual Convention, Philadelphia, December 2009.
  • “Miscellany and Macaronic Meters: Alliterative Appropriation of French Poetic Form.” Rencontres Franco-Américaines, Linguistique et Littérature, École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France, June 19, 2008.
  • “Grammatical Estrangement.” Berkeley Language Center’s Lecture Series, May 2005. Excerpt published in the Berkeley Language Center Newsletter, Fall 2005.
  • “Reading ‘Alliteratively’: The Middle English Pearl and the Allegory of Artifice.” Poetic Fest: Stanford University, May 14, 2005.