Ryan Heryford, PhD Faculty Profile
Ryan Heryford, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of English
- E-mail: ryan.heryford@csueastbay.edu
- Phone: (510) 885-2989
- Office: MB 2597
- Office Hours: On Sabbatical, AY 22-23
Research and Teaching Interests: 19th and 20th Century American Literature; Environmental Humanities and Narratives of Environmental Justice; De-colonial Studies; Poetry and Poetics; Film Criticism
- Ph.D. Literature and Cultural Studies - University of California, San Diego
| Course # | Sec | Course Title | Days | From | To | Location | Campus |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ENGL 342 | 01 | Environmental Literature | ARR | WEB-ASYNCH |
Recent Articles
Heryford, Ryan. "The Username and the Lyric “I”: Encountering Ecopoetic Theory Within the Digital Humanities" ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment. ed. Scott Slovic. Oxford University Press. Fall, 2020.
Heryford, Ryan. "'The Mold-life:' Dickinson's Poetics of Decay" The Emily Dickinson Journal. ed. James Guthrie. Johns Hopkins University Press, Volume XXIX, No. 1, Spring, 2020
Heryford, Ryan. "the breath of flowers that perished:" The Imperial Ecologies of Mark Twain's Early Letters" in The Mark Twain Annual, Special Edition: "Mark Twain and the Natural World." ed. Ben Click and Joseph Csicsilia. Penn State University Press, Volume 17, November, 2019
Recent Book Chapters
Heryford, Ryan. "the word for bringing bodies back from water:" Oceanic Ecopoetics, Black Life, and the Re-Imagining of Extinction" in Contesting Extinction: Critical Relationalities, Regenerative Futures. ed. Suzanne McCullagh, Catherine Wagner, Iñaki Pradanos, Ilaria Tabusso Marcyan, and Ryan Gunderson. Rowman and Littlefield Press, 2021
Heryford, Ryan. “Mink Snopes’ Shavasana: Body, Relation, and Exchange in Faulkner’s Economies of Being” in Faulkner and Money. ed. Jay Watson. Oxford: University of Mississippi Press, 2019
Heryford, Ryan. “Thomas Sutpen’s Geography Lesson: Environmental Obscurities and Racial Remapping in Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom!” in Faulkner’s Geographies. ed. Jay Watson and Ann Abadie. Oxford: University of Mississippi Press, 2015
Recent Book Reviews
Influx and Eflux: Writing Up With Walt Whitman. (Duke U. Press, 2020) in Ecocene: Cappadocia Journal of Environmental Humanities. Book Review ed. Fatma Aykanat. Cappadocia Environmental Humanities Center Press (Open Access). (Vol. 1, Issue 2, Winter 2020)
Fire and Rain: Ecopoetry of California. ed. Lucille Lang Day and Ruth Nolan" in ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment. Book Review ed. Lisa Ottum. Oxford University Press. Vol. 26, Issue 2, Spring 2019.
Recomposing Ecopoetics: North American Poetry of the Self-Conscious Anthropocene by Lynn Keller (U. of Virginia P, 2018) in ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment. Book Review ed. Lisa Ottum. Oxford University Press. Vol. 27, Issue 2, Spring 2020.
"the word for bringing bodies back from water:" Oceanic Ecopoetics, Black Life, and the Re-Imagining of Extinction" Approaching Extinction/Contesting Extinction Symposium. Environmental Humanities Research Cluster. Miami University of Ohio (March, 2020)
"'...I tremble to meet them': Thoreau's Impersonal Bodies" in Thoreau and the