Dr. Joshua Myers

Originally from Pennsylvania, Dr. Myers received his B.A. in journalism and 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, and at each of those institutions he won notable awards for his achievements in teaching. Dr. Myers’s research interests involve a wide range of 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 genres like Folk Horror and EcoGothic for the cultural overlap of horror narratives with stories of ruralness, regionalism, geography, and nature. Dr. Myers has presented at the International Conference on Virginia Woolf and has twice been accepted to the conference of the Modern Language Association (MLA). He serves as an ongoing editor and peer reviewer for various literary journals and university presses, and his writings have been published in New Delta Review, Journal of Modern Literature, Ecocriticism and the Future of Southern Studies, Horror Studies, and Studies in American Fiction. As of 2025, he has publications forthcoming in Ink in Thirds and the critical anthology Henry James: Writing as Revenge.