Eileen A. Joy
Eileen A. Joy (a.k.a. Eileen A Fradenburg Joy) is a specialist in Old English literary studies and cultural studies and is the publisher and founding director of Punctum Books: spontaneous acts of scholarly combustion.[1] She holds a B.A. in English from Virginia Commonwealth University (1984), an M.F.A. in Fiction from Virginia Commonwealth University (1992) and a Ph.D. in Medieval Literature and Intellectual History from University of Tennessee (2001) with a dissertation Beowulf and the Floating Wreck of History.[2] She is the founder of the BABEL Working Group and is co-editor of postmedieval: a journal of medieval cultural studies.[3]
Research interests
Joy's research interests also span poetry and poetics, intellectual history, ethics, affects, embodiments, queer studies, object/thing studies, the ecological, post-humanisms, and open access scholarly communications.[4]
Academic positions
- Associate Professor, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (August 2009 - August 2013)
- Assistant Professor, Southern Illinois University (August 2006 - July 2009) and Director of Graduate Studies (May 2007 - August 2009)
- Visiting Assistant Professor, Coastal Carolina University (August 2005 - August 2006)
- Assistant Professor, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (August 2003 - July 2005)
- Visiting Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina-Asheville (July 2002 - July 2003)
- Assistant Professor, Francis Marion University (August 2000 - July 2002)
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