Phillip Grayson
Assistant Professor听
Department of Languages, Literature and Philosophy
200-B Holland
963-5729
pgrayso1@tnstate.edu
Education
PhD in English-St John's University
MA in English Literature and Language-University of Tulsa
BA in English-University of South Carolina-Aiken
BIO
Phillip D Grayson is an Assistant Professor of English at 91制片厂 and the World Literature Editor of the Watchung Review. In works touching on everything from medieval theology to film theory, Grayson has explored the nature of our relationships with fictional beings, and the ways that these relationships shape our lives. In addition to his first book, The Creation of Reality, his work on American literature has appeared in the journals Transatlantica, Modern Horizons, and the Humanities Review, and in the edited collection: Edgar Allen Poe and Psychology.
Selected Academic and/or Popular Press Publications
BOOKS
The Creation of Reality: Consciousness in Contemporary
Literature. MacBain and Boyd. 2019
CHAPTERS IN EDITED COLLECTIONS
鈥淢eteoric Fiction: The Inhuman Author and the End of the
World,鈥� Anthropocene Responsibility. Ed Chase Pielak and Deborah Christie.
鈥淎 Hideous Veil鈥� Edgar Allen Poe and Psychology. Ed. Gerry Del
Guercio. McFarland Books.
PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES
鈥淥n the Dead and Dying: Line Breaks in 鈥淸Buffalo Bill 鈥榮 /
defunct].鈥� Transatlantica. (forthcoming)
鈥淎t the Edge of Evening, Often Forever: Extramission,
Consciousness, Literature.鈥� Modern Horizons 7.1. 2016
鈥淣o True Substitute for the Infinite: Indefinite Space and Infinite
Time in Alfred Jarry鈥檚 The Supermale.鈥� Humanities Review. 12.1. 2015
FICTION
鈥淎 Westward Carousel.鈥� Unsaid. 7.1. August 2014.
鈥淭his One Has Jaguars in It,鈥� 鈥淭he Abortionists,鈥� and 鈥淲ith a
Monstrous Architecture.鈥� etcetera. April 2010.
Select Conferences
鈥淥n the Dead and Defunct: ee cummings鈥� line breaks.鈥� ACCUTE.
University of British Columbia. June 2019
鈥淭he Ethics of Fiction.鈥� Truth Fiction Illusion. Association for
Philosophy and Literature. Alpen-Adria-Universit盲t
Klagenfurt. May 2019.
鈥淵ou Never Did the Kenosha j/k.鈥� PLAY. Texas Tech University.
April 2019.
鈥淩epetition without Learning: Time in the American West.鈥�
Timepieces. University of Toronto. March 2019
鈥淭he Unconditionally Singular Covenants of Bleeding Edge.鈥�
ASAP: Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present. University of California, Berkeley. October 2017
"The Summer of 1920: Indefinite Space, Indefinite Time, and the
Not-Too-Distant Future.鈥� Untold Futures: Speculation, Redemption, Disappointment. University of Chicago. November 2016.
鈥淎t the Edge of Evening, Often Forever.鈥� The Humanities, the
Neurosciences, the Mind. University of California-Santa Barbara. May 2016.
鈥淣otes Toward a Speculative Poetics of Whether or Not
Lazerbeams Shoot Out of Our Eyes.鈥� One-day Conference. St John鈥檚 University. April 2016.
鈥淭urn Me Back into My Former Self: The Transformations of St
Christopher.鈥� Order and Disorder in the Middle Ages. Cornell University. November 2015.
鈥淧roximate Points on a Spiral: Exoticism and Ethernity in Alfred
Jarry鈥檚 Le Surm芒le.鈥� (Re)presentation: Problematicizing Authenticity. St John鈥檚 University. April 2015.
鈥淲hat it is is: Bleeding Edge.鈥� Conference: Consciousness,
Theater, Literature, and the Arts. St Francis College. April 2015.
鈥淭he Reptile and Sensual: 鈥楴atural鈥� Networks in Upstream Color.鈥�
Working through Environmental Unlikeness: Ecology and Nature in the Humanities. St John鈥檚 University. April 2014.
Classes Taught at
TSU
American Literature I-II
World Literature II
Critical Approaches to Literature
Freshman English I-II
Campus and Department Committees
Co-Sponsor: Alpha Alpha Eta Chapter of Sigma Tau Delta
Sophomore Literature Coordinator