Jennifer Dawes, Ph.D.

Ph.D., English, University of Nevada, Reno
M.A., English, University of Houston, Texas
M.A., Journalism, University of Missouri-Columbia
B.A., English, Baylor University, Waco, Texas

Dark Tourism Studies; Television and Film

Peer-Reviewed Books

Reintegrating Severance: Interdisciplinary Insights on AppleTV’s Dystopian Thriller, an international, interdisciplinary collection of essays co-edited with Nora M. Isacoff. Palgrave Macmillan, August 2024.

Includes the “Introduction” co-authored with N. Isacoff and my essay “‘Who are you?’: Memory, History, and Nostalgia on the Severed Floor.”

Dark Tourism in the American West. Editor. Palgrave Macmillan, August 2019.

Including book chapters: “Introduction: Dark Tourism in the American West,” “Revisiting Waco and the Branch Davidian Tragedy,” and “Postscript: How We Look at Dark Places”

Across the Plains: Sarah Royce’s Western Narrative. Women’s Western Voices Series. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2009. (as Jennifer Dawes Adkison)

Peer-Reviewed Articles

“Dateline Waco: (Re)Inventing Dark Tourism” accepted for publication in The Business of Dark Tourism: Managing Difficult Heritage. Editor Philip R. Stone, 2026.

“The Desert as Dumping Ground in Popular Imagination,” in Reading Aridity. Jada Ach and Gary Reger, eds. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2020.

“Sacrament to Sacrilege: Human Flesh as Sustenance in Alive and The Road,” in Food on Film: Bringing Something New to the Table. Tom Hertweck, ed. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2014. 187-200. (as Jennifer Dawes Adkison)

“‘These is my words’ . . . Or Are They?: Constructing Western Women’s Lives in Two Contemporary Novels,” Great Plains Quarterly 26.1 (Winter 2006): 13-25. (as Jennifer Dawes Adkison)

“What Passes Away: Visions of Time in Susan Fenimore Cooper’s Rural Hours,” in Susan Fenimore Cooper: New Essays on Rural Hours and Other Works. Rochelle Johnson and Daniel Patterson, eds. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2001. 154-168.

University of Arkansas at Little Rock

English 44773/Rhetoric 54773, Special Topics in Nonfiction: Dark Tourism, online

English 31693, Writing for the Workplace, on campus

English 10103, Composition I, on campus

Midwestern State University

English 4953/5953, Contemporary Literature: Holocaust and Apocalypse Narratives, online

English 4613, Special Topics: Holocaust Narratives, on campus

English 4543, Film Narrative, Topics: Social Issues in Film and Technology and Consciousness in

Film; on campus

English 3743, Diverse Voices: Voices from the Fringe of the American Religious Landscape, on

campus

English 3503, Texts in Context: Fear in Film, on campus

English 3203, Technical Writing, on campus

English 2113, Intermediate Composition and Grammar, online and hybrid

English 1143, Academic Research and Writing, on campus

English 0043, Developmental Corequisite, Integrated Reading and Writing, online

Henderson State University

English 4963/5963, Special Topics: Gender in Literature, Film, and Culture, partially online

English 3613, Technical Writing, online

English 3063, American Literature Survey I, partially online

English 3073, American Literature Survey II, on campus

English 2013, World Literature I, on campus

English 2053, Studies in Literature, partially online

English 2683, Masters of Western Literature, on campus and partially online

English 1463, English A (first-year composition), on campus

English 1473, English B (first-year composition), on campus

Mass Media Communications 4423, Magazine and Feature Writing, on campus

Eastern Oregon University

English 381, American Literature I, on campus, online, and partially online

English 257, Writers of the American West, online

English 107, World Literature I, on campus

English 108, World Literature II, on campus

English 109, World Literature III, on campus

English 104, Introduction to Literature, on campus

Writing 320, Professional Writing, online

Writing 115, Developmental Writing, on campus

Idaho State University

All courses were taught on campus.

American Studies 200, Introduction to American Studies
English 668, Twentieth-Century Literature, Graduate Seminar

English 666, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Graduate Seminar

English 613, Editing the West: Methods of Scholarship/Literary Biography, Manuscripts, Editing

English 491, Senior Seminar: Women’s Lives in Literature

English 467/567; Women’s Studies 405, Women Writing the Gold Rush

English 467/567, Late Nineteenth-Century Literature

English 466/566, Early Nineteenth-Century Literature

English 353, The West in American Literature

English 328, Gender in Literature: American Women’s Narrative

English 307, Technical Writing

English 277, Survey of American Literature I

English 115, Literature and the Natural World

English 110, Introduction to Literature

English 102, Critical Reading and Writing

English 101, English Composition

English 090, Basic Writing

Academic Skills 102, First Year Seminar

Popular Culture Association

Western Literature Association

University of Arkansas at Little Rock

College of Humanities, Arts, Social Sciences, and Education Executive Council, July 2024-present

Dining Committee, Fall 2026

Academic Technology and Computing Committee, Fall 2025-present

Faculty Professional Development Committee, Fall 2025-present

Planning and Finance Committee, Fall 2025-present

Academic Affairs AI Task Force, Fall 2025-Spring 2026

CHASSE Ad Hoc AI Task Force, Fall 2025-Spring 2026

Faculty Appeals Council, Fall 2025-present

University of Arkansas at Little Rock
Chair and Professor, Department of Rhetoric and Writing, July 2024-present

Midwestern State University, Wichita Falls, Texas
Chair and Professor, Department of English, Humanities, and Philosophy, August 2019-June 2024

Henderson State University, Arkadelphia, Arkansas
Professor, English,  August 2017-June 2019
Associate Professor, English, August 2014-July 2017

Eastern Oregon University, La Grande, Oregon
Associate Professor, English/Writing, September 2011-June 2014

Assistant Professor, English/Writing, September 2010-August 2011

Idaho State University, Pocatello, Idaho
Associate Professor, English, August 2008-May 2010

Director, American Studies Program, August 2009-May 2010 (Interim Director, 2005)

Assistant Professor, English, August 2003-August 2008
Lecturer, English,  August 2002-August 2003