Dr. Joshua Myers

Originally from Pennsylvania, Dr. Myers graduated from the Pennsylvania State University with a B.A. in journalism and worked in various reporting, writing, and editing positions. Dr. Myers then received his M.A. in English from Arcadia University, his Ph.D. in English from Louisiana State University, and he served as the faculty coordinator for the writing center at Kent State University’s Columbiana Campuses. His research interests involve a wide range of American and British literatures, from the colonial to the contemporary, though he most appreciates the American works that bracket the turn of the twentieth century. Dr. Myers is also a scholar of ecocriticism and the environmental humanities, especially attuned to the role of horror and Gothic in culture, and how those genres intersect with 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 scholarship has been published in New Delta Review, the Journal of Modern Literature, Ecocriticism and the Future of Southern Studies, Horror Studies, and Studies in American Fiction.