Dr. Joshua Myers

Dr. Myers joined the Academy in 2023. Originally from Pennsylvania, Dr. Myers graduated from Penn State with a B.A. in journalism; and worked in various managerial, reporting, writing, and editing positions. After receiving his M.A. in English from Arcadia University, and his Ph.D. in English from Louisiana State University, Dr. Myers taught a variety of composition and literature courses at Kent State University’s regional campuses where he was also the faculty coordinator of the writing center. 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. He has presented at the International Conference on Virginia Woolf and the Conference of the Modern Language Association (MLA). He has published in New Delta Review, the Journal of Modern Literature, Horror Studies, the anthology Ecocriticism and the Future of Southern Studies, and he has a forthcoming publication in Studies in American Fiction.