Phillip Grayson | Faculty | Languages, Literature and Philosophy

Department of Languages, Literature and Philosophy

Office Address: 206 Holland
Phone: 963-5729
Email: pgrayso1@tnstate.edu

PhD in English-St John’s University
MA in English Literature and Language-University of Tulsa
BA in English-University of South Carolina-Aiken

• BOOKS
  • The Creation of Reality: Consciousness in Contemporary Literature. MacBain and Boyd. 2019
• CHAPTERS IN EDITED COLLECTIONS
  • “Meteoric Fiction: The Inhuman Author and the End of the
    World,” Anthropocene Responsibility. Ed Chase Pielak and Deborah Christie.
  • “A Hideous Veil” Edgar Allen Poe and Psychology. Ed. Gerry Del
    Guercio. McFarland Books.
• PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES
  • “On the Dead and Dying: Line Breaks in “[Buffalo Bill ‘s / defunct].” Transatlantica. (forthcoming)
  • “At the Edge of Evening, Often Forever: Extramission, Consciousness, Literature.” Modern Horizons 7.1. 2016
  • “No True Substitute for the Infinite: Indefinite Space and Infinite Time in Alfred Jarry’s The Supermale.” Humanities Review. 12.1. 2015
• FICTION
  • “A Westward Carousel.” Unsaid. 7.1. August 2014.
  • “This One Has Jaguars in It,” “The Abortionists,” and “With a Monstrous Architecture.” etcetera. April 2010.

• “On the Dead and Defunct: ee cummings’ line breaks.” ACCUTE.
  University of British Columbia. June 2019
• “The Ethics of Fiction.” Truth Fiction Illusion. Association for
  Philosophy and Literature. Alpen-Adria-Universität
  Klagenfurt. May 2019.
• “You Never Did the Kenosha j/k.” PLAY. Texas Tech University.
  April 2019.
• “Repetition without Learning: Time in the American West.”
  Timepieces. University of Toronto. March 2019
• “The Unconditionally Singular Covenants of Bleeding Edge.”
  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.” Untold Futures: Speculation, Redemption, Disappointment. University of Chicago. November 2016.
• “At the Edge of Evening, Often Forever.” The Humanities, the
  Neurosciences, the Mind. University of California-Santa Barbara. May 2016.
• “Notes Toward a Speculative Poetics of Whether or Not
  Lazerbeams Shoot Out of Our Eyes.” One-day Conference. St John’s University. April 2016.
• “Turn Me Back into My Former Self: The Transformations of St
  Christopher.” Order and Disorder in the Middle Ages. Cornell University. November 2015.
• “Proximate Points on a Spiral: Exoticism and Ethernity in Alfred
  Jarry’s Le Surmâle.” (Re)presentation: Problematicizing Authenticity. St John’s University. April 2015.
• “What it is is: Bleeding Edge.” Conference: Consciousness,
  Theater, Literature, and the Arts. St Francis College. April 2015.
• “The Reptile and Sensual: ‘Natural’ Networks in Upstream Color.”
  Working through Environmental Unlikeness: Ecology and Nature in the Humanities. St John’s University. April 2014.

• American Literature I-II
• World Literature II
• Critical Approaches to Literature
• Freshman English I-II