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 Biography

Dr. Joy Kennedy-O'Neill

Assistant Professor of English

I grew up in Sweeny, Texas and began my studies here at Brazosport College.  I also studied in San Marcos, Texas; Canterbury, England; and Indiana, Pennsylvania.  Much of my non-studying time was actually spent underground.  For over ten years I explored and mapped caves in the Texas Hill Country with members of the Texas Speleological Association – very exciting!  I have taught for Austin Community College and Texas Lutheran University.  Currently I teach English Composition I and II and Zombie Literature.

 Education

Ph.D Literature & Criticism, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
M.A. English Literature, Texas State University
B.A. English, Texas State University

 Publications

Ÿ Upcoming!  "Subsidance," a short story in The New Orleans Review  Dec. Issue.  2011.

Ÿ Out of the Earth: Ecocritical Readings of Irish Texts. Cork University Press, 2010.  Foreword by John Elder.  

Ÿ To Everything on Earth: New Writings on Fate, Community, and Nature.  Texas Tech University Press, 2009.  Foreword by Bill McKibben.  Starred review in Publishers Weekly.

Ÿ The Sacred and Sublime: Caves in American Literature.  Dissertation.

Ÿ “What We Leave Behind.”  What Wildness is This: Women Write About the Southwest.  Foreword by Kathleen Dean Moore. University of Texas Press, 2007.   Winner of the 2008 WILLA Literary Award for Creative Nonfiction.

Ÿ Tales from the Deep: Mammoth Cave & American Literature.”  Journal of Kentucky Studies, 2005.

Ÿ “The Edge of the World: Feminist Geography and Literature.”  Interdisciplinary Literary Studies, 2004.

Ÿ “‘Sympathy between man and nature’: J.M. Synge and Riders to the Sea  ISLE: Interdisciplinary  Studies in Literature and Environment, 2004.

Ÿ “Artistry of Hunger: Desire and Appetite in Desert Solitaire.”  Western American Literature, 2004.

Ÿ “King Lear as the Green Man.  The Explicator, 2002.

Ÿ “Gecko Toes and Spider Holds”  ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies of Literature & the Environment, 2005.

Ÿ “The Edge of the World.”  Organization and Environment, 2001. Full text reprinted in Reconstuction.

Ÿ “Blasts and Repercussions.” Petroglyph: A Journal of Creative Natural History Writing, (Isotope) 1997.

Ÿ  “Shadows of Twilight.”  Southwestern American Literature, 1995.

 

 Awards & Honors

NISOD Teaching Excellence Award

Minnie Piper Professor Nominee

The Writers’ League of Texas Fellowship for Creative Nonfiction

The Charles Oliver Memorial Award for Fiction

The William E. Bard Book Award for Children’s Fiction

The Chuck Steinem Award for Leadership in a Texas Caving Organization

 

 
 

 Dr. Joy Kennedy-O'neill

 Contact Details

Office: B-227
Phone: (979) 230-3262
Joy.Kennedy@brazosport.edu

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