Faculty Profile

Dr. Jeffrey Myers Assistant Professor of English

Education:

• A.B.,  Dartmouth College 1988
• M.A., Tufts University 1995
• Ph.D., Tufts University 2002

Research and Scholarly Interests:

Early and Nineteenth-Century American Literature with a Multi-ethnic Emphasis;  Environmental Literature; Ecocriticism; Critical Race Studies

Selected Publications:

Converging Stories: Race, Ecology, and Environmental Justice in American Literature.  University of Georgia Press, 2005.

"'Ready to Come Home':  Teaching African American Literature as Environmental Literature."  Approaches to Teaching North American Environmental Literature. Eds. Frederick Waage, Mark Long, and Laird Christensen.  Forthcoming from MLA.

"Other Nature: Resistance to Ecological Hegemony in Charles W. Chesnutt's The Conjure Woman."  African American Review (Spring 2003, 37.1).

"The Anxiety of Confluence: Evolution, Ecology, and Imperialism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness.  ISLE (Summer 2001, 8.2).

Courses Taught/Teaching:

• ENGL 210: Exposition and Argument
• ENGL 253: Masterworks of American Literature
• ENGL 279: Literature and the Environment
• ENGL 372: American Literature to 1914
• ENGL 373: Studies: American Realism, Naturalism, and Local Color
• ENGL 374: The American Novel to 1914
• LLRN 204: Roots of the Modern Age: Literature
  

Contact Information:

• Telephone: (718) 862-7252
• Office: Miguel 422
• Fax: (718) 862-8044
• e-mail: jeffrey.myers@manhattan.edu

Page last updated by  K. Balaj on November 8, 2006