Dr. Joshua Myers

Dr. Myers joined the Academy in 2023. Originally from Pennsylvania, Dr. Myers did his undergraduate work at Penn State, graduating with a B.A. in journalism, and he then 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. His research interests involve a wide range of American literatures, from the colonial to the contemporary, though he most appreciates the 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 published in the Journal of Modern Literature, the anthology Ecocriticism and the Future of Southern Studies, and he has essays forthcoming in both Horror Studies and Studies in American Fiction.