Jill E. Anderson
Associate Professor听
Department of Languages, Literature and Philosophy
Education
Ph.D.,University of Mississippi
MLS, MTSU
MA, University of Mississippi
BA, Purdue University
313 Jackson
jander31@tnstate.edu
BIO
Dr. Jill E. Anderson is an associate professor in English. She teaches English 1010 and 1020 (with a food studies or digital citizenship/media literacy theme) as well as American Literature, Women鈥檚 Studies, and Honors courses. Dr. Anderson's work has appeared in Women's Studies, Margaret Atwood Studies, Media听+ Enviornment, and the Journal of Ecocriticism. Her dissertation was on queer ecology and the literature of the 1960s, and she published her book Homemaking for the Apocalypse: Domestic Horror in Atomic Age Media and Literature, in 2021 and co-edited Beyond the Haunted House: Shirley Jackson and Domesticity in 2020. Her other research interests include queer theory, ecofeminism and environmental justice,听 literature of the American suburb, Cold War scifi and horror fiction, and Shirley Jackson. Dr. Anderson serves as advisor for the Genders & Sexualities Alliance. She is currently at work on an essay collection of critical approaches to "The Golden Girls." Her non-academic activities include practicing all styles of yoga, throwing pottery, sewing, weaving, hiking, running, biking, baking, cuddling kittens, and thrifting.
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Selected Academic and/or Popular Press Publications
"'Murder, She Wrote''s听Regionalism: Jessica Goes South." Essay in forthcoming collection.听
"Her Body and Other Ghosts: Embodied Horror in Shirley Jackson and Carmen Maria Machado." Article in forthcoming issue of听Monstrum: A Horror Journal.听
"Greening Guilt: Gender and Sustainable Influencing." In听The Routledge Companion to Gender and Affect.听Ed. Todd W. Reeser. Routledge, 2022.听
鈥溾�榩ack in. pack out. and pack your heels hunni鈥�: Ecodrag and Ecoqueer Instagram.鈥� In听Media + Environment听special issue 鈥淢en & Nature.鈥� Vol. 4, No. 2, Fall 2022.听听
鈥溾�楨at Dirt and Die, Trash鈥�: Tacky White Southerners in听Murder, She Wrote听&听The Golden Girls.鈥� In听The Tacky South. Ed. Monica Miller and Katharine A. Burnett. LSU Press, November 2022.
Homemaking for the Apocalypse: Domesticating Horror in the Atomic Age Literature and Media. (Routledge, April 2021).
鈥淗omemaking for the Apocalypse: Queer Failures and Bunker Mentality in听The听听听Sundial.鈥� In听Shirley Jackson & Domesticity: Beyond the Haunted House. Ed. Jill听E. Anderson and Melanie R. Anderson. Bloomsbury, June 2020.
Co-editor of:听Shirley Jackson & Domesticity: Beyond the Haunted House,听Bloomsbury, June 2020.
"Nature Boys & Bears in Pants: Ecoqueer Hybrid Heroes in Atomic Age Comics.鈥澨�Gender and Environment in Science Fiction. Ed. Christy Tidwell and Bridgette Barclay. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, forthcoming.
鈥淭he Revenge of the Lawn: The Awful Agency of Uncontained Plant Life in Ward Moore鈥檚听Greener Than You Think听and Thomas Disch鈥檚听The Genocides.鈥澨�Plant Horror: Approaches to the Monstrous Vegetal in Fiction & Film. Ed. Dawn Keetley and Angela Tenga. New York: Palgrave MacMillian, November 2016.
听鈥溾�楾he whole imprisoning wasteland beyond鈥�: Forces of Nature, Ableism, and the Suburban Crip in Midcentury Literature.鈥� Disability and the Environment in American Literature: Toward an Ecosomatic Paradigm. Ed. Matthew J.C. Cella. Lanham, MD: Lexington, October 2016.
鈥溾�榊ou should be a big enough guy now鈥�: Homosocial Bonds and Wilderness Masculinity in Ken Kesey鈥檚 Sometimes A Great Notion.鈥� Outside: New Examinations of the Environment in Popculture. Ed. Johannes Springer and Thomas Doren. Bielefeld, Germany: Transcript Verlag, September 2016.
鈥淭he Haunting of Fun Home: Shirley Jackson and Alison Bechdel鈥檚 Queer Gothic Neodomesticity.鈥� Shirley Jackson, Confluences and Influences. Ed. Melanie Anderson and Lisa Sloan Kroger. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, June 2016.
"...the element that shaped me, that I shape by being in...": Alternative Natures in Margaret Atwood's Surfacing and The Edible Woman." This Book is an Action: Feminist Print Culture and Activist Aesthetics. Ed. Jaime Harker and Cecilia Konchar Farr. Champaign, IL: U of Illinois P, 2015.
"'Blown away like apples by the fickle wind of the Twentieth Century': Counterculture Resistance and the Wilderness Condition in Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America." Ecozon@ 4.1 (2013): 12-29.
"A Roundtable Discussion on Queer Ecopsychology." The European Journal of Ecopsychology 3 (2012).
"The Sexual Politics of Eat(ing): Queerness and Consumption in Margaret Atwood's The Edible Woman." Margaret Atwood Studies 5.1 (2012).
"Warm blood and live semen and rich marrow and wholesome flesh!": A Queer Ecological Reading of Christopher Isherwood's A Single Man. The Journal of Ecocriticism 3.1 (2011): 51-66.
Selected Conference Presentations
Presenter of "Eat Dirt and Die, Trash: Tacky White Southernness in听The Golden Girls听and听Murder, She Wrote" at American Studies Association Conference, Atlanta, GA, November 2018
Organizer of "Shirley Jackson & Domesticity" at American Literature Association's Conference, San Francisco, May 2018
Presenter of "Powder Kegs & Wisteria(s): Portrayals of Southern Whiteness in听Murder, She Wrote" at Modern Language Association's Conference, New York City, January 2018
Organizer and Chair of 鈥淧ublic/Private: Navigating the Materiality of Home Economics鈥� at American Studies Association Conference, Denver, November 2016
Organizer and Chair of 鈥溾�榃hen Shall We Live if Not Now?': Reassessing Shirley Jackson鈥� at American Literature Association Conference, San Francisco, May 2016
Organizer and chair of 鈥淏odies in Bondage: Environments in Women鈥檚 Neo-Captivity Narratives鈥� and presenter of 鈥溾�楾he whole imprisoning wasteland beyond鈥�: Forces of Nature and Ableism in Midcentury Literature of Suburbia鈥� at Society for the Study of American Writers Conferences, Philadelphia, November 2015
Presenter of "Unconventional Families and the End of Man: Shirley Jackson's The Sundial" at Louisville Conference for Literature and Culture since 1900, Louisville, KY, February 2014
Organizer and Presenter of "Not Just Trout Fishing: Richard Brautigan's Environments" at ASLE's Convention in Lawrence, KS, May 2013. Presented paper entitled: "'We're on a conveyor belt': Countercultural Marriage and Alternative Reproductions in Richard Brautigan's The Abortion"
"The Urban Eclogue as Social and Gender Commentary in Sandra Hochman's Manhattan Pastures" at Modern Language Association's Convention in Boston, January 2013
Organizer and Presenter of "Digging the Scene/Digging the Earth: The Beats and Ecocriticism" Panel at ASLE's Convention in Bloomington, IN, June 2011. Presented paper entitled: "'Blown away like apples by the fickle wind of the Twentieth Century': The Wilderness Condition in Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America"
Organizer and Presenter of "The Nature of Culinary Choices: The Rhetoric and Discourse of Foodways and the Environment" Panel at American Studies Association's Convention in San Antonio, TX, November 2010. Presented paper entitled: "Clean, Fair, and Queer: Notes toward an Oppositional Ecology of Food"
Classes Taught at TSU
Engl 1010, 1020, 2110, 2120, 3690, 4994, WMST 2100, Honr 1011, 1012
Selected University Committees, Campus Groups
Tiger Mentors, TSU Faculty Senate Library Committees, College of Liberal Arts Research and Creative Scholarship Committee and Awards Committee
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