Michael Joshua Jaynes

Curriculum Vita of Dr. Michael J. Jaynes Senior Lecturer in English 615 McCallie Avenue Chattanooga, TN 37403 423-320-5723 (main) 423-425-4238 (work) [email protected]

EDUCATION

EdD, Learning and Leadership, 2014 University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, 615 McCallie Avenue, Chattanooga, TN 37403 4.0 / 4.0 GPA Dissertation: A CAUSAL COMPARATIVE INVESTIGATION INTO TRANSACTIONAL VERSUS TRANSFORMATIONAL INSTRUCTIONAL DELIVERY STYLE IN TWO FRESHMAN-LEVEL HUMANITIES COURSES AT A SOUTHEASTERN AMERICAN UNIVERSITY Dissertation chair: Dr. David Rausch

MA, Professional Writing, 2005 University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, 615 McCallie Avenue, Chattanooga, TN 37403 3.8 / 4.0 GPA Academic concentrations and interests: Creative Writing and Feminism

BA, English Literature and Language, 2002 Spanish minor University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, 615 McCallie Avenue, Chattanooga, TN 37403 3.0 / 4.0 GPA

EMPLOYMENT

2006- Present Senior Lecturer in English The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga 615 McCallie Avenue, Chattanooga, TN 37403 Supervisor: Dr. Chris Stuart, Department Head 423-425-4238

1 2006 Adjunct Instructor of English Dalton State College 650 College Drive Dalton, Georgia 30720 Supervisor: Dr. Mary Neilson, Dean of Humanities and Department Head 706-272-4407

2003-2005 Adjunct Instructor of English Chattanooga State Technical Community College 4501 Amnicola Highway Chattanooga, TN 37406 Supervisor: Dr. Randy Schulte, Professor and Head 423-697-4440

Summer, 2005 English Instructor The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga’s University Bound Program Supervisor: Chris Stokes, Director 423-227-3096

Summer, 2004 and Fall, 2004 English Instructor The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga’s Upward Bound Program Supervisor: Booker T. Scruggs, Director 423-425-4251

ACADEMIC SPECIALIZATIONS AND COURSES TAUGHT

Having received formal training in professional and creative writing, feminism, Spanish, and English and American Literature and Language, I have broadened my research interests to include human learning theory and Animal Advocacy Ethics. I have also researched and published on such various subjects as human learning theory, Greek mythology, Homer, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Alice Walker, and an original pedagogical approach called “Four Dimensional Teaching.”

Courses taught at various institutes of higher learning since 2003:

Developmental Writing I Developmental Writing II Rhetoric and Composition I Rhetoric and Composition II World Literature Western Humanities I

2 Western Humanities II Values in 20th Century American Fiction Children's Literature Literature for the Adolescent Greek Myth and the Hero in twentieth century America Ecofeminsim American Masculinities Writing Beyond the Academy Introduction to Women’s Studies Introduction to Literature Popular Fiction: Horror, Vampires, Zombies, Ghosts and Magick Introduction to Animal Rights The Ethics of Star Trek

SELECTED LECTURES / INTERVIEWS/ MEDIA APPEARENCES/ CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

Invited fiction reading of short story “Going to Hell in Gasoline Pants. Meacham Writers’ Conference, The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, October 2016

Delivered campus lecture for UTC’s Women’s Studies program titled “Feminism’s Pornography: the White Straight Male Feminist as ‘Other’” on February 1st, 2016.

Spoke at UTC's 2012 Faculty Research Day regarding my article "The Response of College Freshmen to the Ethics of Animal Rights: An Example of Applied Learning Theory." published in Ethical Human Psychology and Psychiatry, issue 14(3), 2012

Invited by UTC’s Women’s Studies program to deliver the lecture “Porn in the USA: A white male feminist perspective” on October 29, 2012.

Paper “Develop(mental) Games and the Writing Classroom” accepted for presentation at the Intellect Intellibase Consortium Academic Conference in Houston, Texas on May 28th, 2010. Could not attend.

Invited speaker to the 2010 Summit for the Elephants hosted by the Performing Animal Welfare Society in San Andreas, California

Hosted 40 viewings of documentary films since 2008 in conjunction with the Awake and Engage(d) Documentary Film series (complete list available upon request) which I cofounded and continue to direct.

Invited to present my ideas regarding the original research topic “The Evolved Alpha Male” at the 2010 conference of the International Journal of Arts and Sciences on May 31st, 2010, at Harvard University, Cambridge Massachusetts. Could not attend.

3 Invited speaker to the Third International Global Studies Conference hosted by Pusan National University in Busan, South Korea. My paper “Eating Meat, Watching Porn: What’s Ecofeminism got to do with it?” has been accepted for presentation. Could not attend.

Featured in the Chattanooga Times Free Press as a “Person to Watch” on August, 11th, 2009

Invited panelist/speaker to the 2009 National Animal Rights Conference in Los Angeles in July, 2009. Could not attend.

Invited panelist/speaker to the 2009 Minding Animals Conference held at Australia’s University of Newcastle. Could not attend.

Invited by UTC’s Women’s Studies Program to give the lecture “Corporate Pornography: Screwing the World” on November 2nd, 2009

Invited speaker at the 2009 Summit for Elephants conference hosted by the Performing Animal Welfare Society in San Andreas, California

Presented paper “Irish Animal Liberation” presented at the 2009 Southern Regional American Conference for Irish Studies Conference Hosted by the University of Tennessee-Chattanooga March 20-22, 2009

Presented “For the Animals’ Sake: From Factory Farming to Deep Vegetariansim” to the Chattanooga Institute of Noetic Sciences on November 8th, 2008.

Invited to be interviewed by Toronto’s award-winning radio program Animal Voices as part of their “elephant month.” Could not attend.

Invited by UTC’s Women’s Studies Program to give the lecture “Porn and Meat: an Ecofeminist Perspective on Connected Cruelty” in conjunction with the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga’s Women’s Studies Month on October 7th, 2008.

Lectured on the American factory farming system by invitation of Saving Animals Via Education (S.A.V.E.) during the Walk for Farm Animals Day activities in Chattanooga, Tennessee on September 27, 2008 presenting lecture “Factory Farmed Animals: What Can We Do?”

Gave paper entitled "From Achilles to House: The Social Freedom of Not Giving a Flying Rip (And Being Good Enough)” at the Modern Popular Culture Association / American Culture Association’s annual conference in Cincinnati, Ohio on October 3-5, 2008 and I served as Panel Chair of the Anti-Hero in Popular Culture panel

Delivered paper entitled “The Saddest Show on Earth: Elephant (ab)use in Traveling Circuses” at the Modern Popular Culture Association / American Culture Association’s

4 annual conference in Cincinnati, Ohio on October 3-5, 2008 and I also served as Panel Chair for the Plants and Animals in Pop Culture panel

Spoke at the National Animal Rights Conference, AR2008, in Washington D.C. on the subject of performing circus elephants and the proposed restructuring of the rhetoric of the Animal Rights movement.

Fiction reading of short story “Monsters.” The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga’s Spring, 2008, Creative Writing Faculty Reading event.

Interviewed by James C. Koch of the University of Tennessee at Knoxville’s Marketing Ph.D. program regarding “Going Green” in contemporary society. Interview will be included in published research report and an industry publication. As of 2017, interview is not yet published.

Paper entitled, “The Primacy of the Individual: Eighty-Eight Years of the Female Rogue from E.D.E.N. Southworth’s Capitola Black to Tom Robbins’s Sissy Hankshaw” was presented at the SEWSA Spring 2007 multidisciplinary Women’s Studies Conference, “Talking Back, Moving Forward: Gender, Culture, and Power” as part of a panel titled, “Subversion of the Patriarchy through Art.”

An original short course entitled “The Primacy of the Individual: Rogues from Achilles to House in an increasingly structured society” was presented as a two part event at Rock Point Books (Chattanooga, Tennessee) on April 7, 2007

The lecture “Creative Approaches to Leadership” was delivered in conjunction with the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga’s University Bound’s summer program, 2006

The pedagogically focused presentation “A New Method of Teaching Homer’s Odyssey: Increasing Learning and Reducing Whining regarding the Wine-Dark Sea” was given on August 19, 2006 during the Interdisciplinary Western Humanities Conference held at the Chattanooga campus of the University of Tennessee.

5 ACADEMIC AND CREATIVE PUBLICATIONS

Jaynes, M. (2013). Elephants Among Us: Two Performing Elephants in Twentieth Century America. Earth Books: London (May, 31, 2013).

ESSAYS IN PEER REVIEWED JOURNALS

Article: "The Response of College Freshmen to the Ethics of Animal Rights: An Example of Applied Learning Theory." Ethical Human Psychology and Psychiatry, issue 14(3). 2013

Article “The Ethical Disconnect of the Circus: Humanity's acceptance of Performing Elephants" Published in California Polytechnic University’s Between the Species: an On- line Journal for the Study of Philosophy and Animals volume VIII, 2008

Article “From War Elephants to Circus Elephants: Humanity’s Abuse of Elephants” published in the December issue of the Journal of Critical Animal Studies Volume VII, issue I, 2009 pps. 74-106.

“Moving Toward an Understanding of ‘Evil’: ‘Young Goodman Brown,’ University Freshmen, and Semiotics.” Published in Volume 7, number 1 of Eureka Studies in Teaching Short Fiction (Fall 2006)

“Teaching Alice Walker’s ‘Everyday Use’: Employing Race, Class, and Gender, with An Annotated Bibliography. “ Coauthored with Marcia Noe. Published in Volume 5, number 1 of Eureka Studies in Teaching Short Fiction (Fall, 2004)

ESSAYS IN BOOKS

First published in Journal for Critical Animal Studies, the article “From War Elephants to Circus Elephants Humanity's Abuse of Elephants” has been selected for inclusion in the forthcoming anthology The War on Africa’s Elephants: Money, Markets, and the Myth of “Sustainable Use” to be published by Animal Rights Africa. As of 2017, book is still not published.

“Teaching Alice Walker’s ‘Everyday Use’: Employing Race, Class, and Gender, with An Annotated Bibliography” with Marcia Noe. Alice Walker New Edition Bloom’s Modern Critical Views Infobase Publishing: New York, 2007

NATIONALLY CIRCULATED MAGAZINE ARTICLES

6 “An Intro to Animal Rights” Four Corners Magazine February/March, 2009

“Shark Fin Sadness” Four Corners Magazine April 2009

“The Logos of Abduction: A Logical Defense of Abductees” UFO Magazine Spring, 2008.

“The Suffering of Animals: The Public’s Hatred of Animal Rights Activists” Selected as Cover Story for Summer, 2008, issue of The Animals Voice Magazine.

ESSAYS PUBLISHED ON MEDIA WEBSITES, PRINT AND ONLINE JOURNALS AND NEWSPAPERS

I Believe Elephants are Worthwhile. Published in National Public Radio’s (NPR) This I Believe Essay Series, July 20, 2008

Review of Mike Hudak’s “Western Turf Wars” in Paragon Music Magazine July 2009, Issue 43, page 4.

The Hanging of Big Mary: Someone worth Remembering. Published on the website of the Captive Animals Protection Society. February, 2009

Animal Defense, Earth Defense: Compassionate Bedfellows. Earth First! Journal March-April 2009. pgs. 20-21

University Student Apathy Toward Dog Fighting: Some Brief Facts virtually published by S.A.V.E. (Saving Animals Via Education). I was also chosen as S.A.V.E’s featured writer for 2009

“Aggressive Posturing does not Create Vegetarians.” The Vegetarian Site.com August 14, 2008

“Cultural Traditions Engendering Abuse: Elephant Crushing and Street Elephants in Thailand.” Animal Writings.Com August 7, 2008

“Humanity’s Enslavement of Nonhuman Animals: Why Human Nature is not Inherently Flawed” About.com August, 2008

“The Rhetoric of Hunting and Whaling: Sustainable Abuse” Abolitionist Online Issue VII

“Whale Sharks and Callous Anthropocentrism.” Animal’s Voice, June 2008

“A Case for Shelter Adoption: Sir Brutus Maximus, Eater of the Treats, King of all Romp.” The Animal Rescue Site www.theanimalrescuesite.com March, 2008

7 Excerpt from “No ‘Green’ Eggs and Ham: How to Not Destroy the Earth and Save Animals.” The University Echo: Student Newspaper of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga April 17th, 2008

EDITORIALS

NPR’s This I Believe About.Com Animal Rights Community.com Animal Suffering.com Animal Concerns.org All Creatures.org The University Echo Animal Writings.Com The Animal Rescue Site The University Echo

CREATIVE PUBLICATIONS

Creative Non Fiction essay Confessions of a Recovering Reckless Hypochondriac. Published in Wordriver Literary Review. Vol. 1, 2009

Short Story Gasoline Christmas awarded first prize in the 2010 Long Short Stories Competition.

Short story Midsummer published in Farmhouse Magazine. January/February issue 2008

Short story Monsters published in Farmhouse Magazine. May/June issue 2007

Short story Animal Man published under the pseudonym R.B. Trout in Riverwalk Journal. September/October issue 2007

Poetry published in -Aalst Magazine (England, out of print) -Contemporary Southern Poets of 1998 (DLS books) -The Central California Poetry Journal -Raunchland (Out of Print)

AWARDS, GRANTS, AND HONORS

Awarded the EDO designation of "Exceeds Expectations" in 2012, 2010, and 2008. Recommended for Exceeds Expectations by our Department Head in 2014.

Presented the English Department Head's Special Award for Teaching in 2011

8 Presented the English Department Head’s Special Award for Service in 2010

Presented the English Department Head’s Special Award for Scholarship in 2009

Awarded a Creative Writing Fellowship Grant from Predator Press and Inkwell Literary Services for an excerpt of a novel in progress, The Runaway Sun, to attend the San Juan Writers’ Workshop in July of 2005. Could not attend.

FELLOWSHIPS

Walker Center for Teaching and Learning Faculty Fellow, 2017-2018 The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE ACTIVITIES

Quality Matters Applying the Quality Matters Rubric Course Graduate Quality Matters Certified Peer Reviewer [in-progress as of 5/2/2017].

Designed a fully online master class of ENGL 2510r: Popular Fiction (16 week version and 7 week accelerated version). Sixteen-week version will be offered in Fall, 2017. [Redesign in progress as of 4/15/2017]

Designed a hybrid section of ENGL 1010: Rhetoric and Composition. Will be offered in Fall, 2017

Served on the Department Contingent Faculty Committee for the 2016/17 year

English Department Faculty Secretary for the 2013/14 and 2014/15 years

Served on the Department General Education Committee for the 2015/16 year

Served on the Department Head's Ad Hoc Committee to address online teaching initiatives in 2015

Organizer and Co-founder of the Awake and Engage(d) Documentary Film Series sponsored by UTC English and UTC Women’s Studies. The series is ongoing, and was founded in 2008. Served as primary organizer and director of the series for all seasons so far. The series starts its tenth season in the fall of 2017.

Participated in composition program’s Read 2 Achieve Book club and discussions in Spring, 2017

Each year, I observe at least one colleague’s classroom teaching and am observed by a colleague.

9 Successfully gained General Education Recertification Status for ENGL 2510r: Popular Fiction in 2015

Successfully gained General Education Recertification Status for ENGL 2410: Western World Literature I in 2016

Selected, and served, as a 2010 and 2009 AP reader by Educational Testing Services in the Literature subject category. Chosen as a reader in 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016 as well (could not attend)

Organizer of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga’s English Department’s 10th,11th, 12th,13th and 14th annual Works in Progress lecture series

THE AWAKE AND ENGAGE(D) DOCUMENTARY FILM SERIES (AwAE)

Co-founder of the Lewis-Jaynes first annual Awake and Engage(d) Documentary Film Series in 2008. After Mr. Lewis left UTC, I continued the series as the Awake and Engage(d) Documentary Film Series with Andrew Najberg. I have directed the series since its inception. As of Spring, 2017, AwAE has screened 40 films. AwAE begins its tenth season on UTC’s campus in the fall of 2017

Secured Speaker and Special Events grants of 800 dollars and 400 dollars awarded in 2011 and 2012 Secured a sponsorship from UTC Humanities for 1000 dollars annually for the fourth, fifth, and sixth seasons

Secured a sponsorship from UTC English for 200 dollars annually. This is a renewing sponsorship.

Secured a sponsorship from UTC Women’s Studies beginning in the ninth season

Secured an 850 dollar library enhancement grant to purchase DVDs for the library's virtual Awake and Engage(d) Documentary Film Series Collection in 2012.

In 2012, UTC's Think / Achieve program added the film series as one of its official events.

REFERENCES

Dr. Marcia Noe Professor and Coordinator of Women’s Studies The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga 338E Holt Hall, Department 2703

10 423-425-4692

Dr. Verbie Prevost Connor Professor of American Literature The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga 203 Holt Hall, Department 2703 423-425-4238

Earl Braggs, MFA UC Foundation Professor of English The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga 338C Holt Hall, Department 2703 423-425-4793

LETTERS OF RECCOMENDATION

Available upon request