Dr. Joshua Myers

Originally from Pennsylvania, Dr. Myers worked in various reporting, writing, and editing positions until later pursuing his Ph.D. Before coming to the Indiana Academy, Dr. Myers previously taught at Thiel College, Louisiana State University, and Kent State University. At these prior institutions, Dr. Myers won notable awards for his achievements in teaching. Dr. Myers’s research and scholarship involves a wide range of both American and British literatures, from the colonial to the contemporary, though he most appreciates the tales that bracket the turn of the twentieth century. Dr. Myers is also a scholar of ecocriticism, the environmental humanities, and the Gothic. He is especially interested in the cultural overlap of horror narratives with stories of ruralness, regionalism, geography, and nature. Dr. Myers has presented at many conferences, but most notably at the International Conference on Virginia Woolf and the conference of the Modern Language Association (MLA). Dr. Myers also serves as an ongoing editor and peer reviewer for various literary journals and university presses, and his writings have been published in Ecocriticism and the Future of Southern Studies, Horror Studies, Ink in Thirds, Journal of Modern Literature, New Delta Review, and Studies in American Fiction. As of Fall 2025, he has an upcoming publication in the critical anthology Henry James: Writing as Revenge.