Vernon / CV 1 ZACKARY VERNON MERRIMACK COLLEGE DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH
[email protected] (978) 837-5000 EXT. 3582 CURRENT POSITION Visiting Assistant Professor of Literature and Film, Merrimack College, 2014-2015 EDUCATION Ph.D. in English, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2014 M.A. in English, North Carolina State University, 2007 B.A. in English, Clemson University, 2004 BOOK PROJECTS Haunted by Waters: The Hydropolitics of American Literature and Film, 1960-1980. An extended version of my doctoral dissertation, this book examines significant literary, cinematic, and socio-political productions of the 1960s and 1970s that utilize hydrological metaphors of containment and contagion to explore Cold War anxieties regarding gender, sexuality, (post)humanism, and cultural heterogeneity. Critical Essays on Ron Rash. Co-edited with Randall Wilhelm. Currently under review. This co-edited volume is the first book-length collection of scholarship on Ron Rash. The collection features the work of many top scholars in Southern and Appalachian Studies, and it provides a disparate but related constellation of interdisciplinary approaches to Rash’s fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. AREAS OF INTEREST Literature: Contemporary, Southern, and Twentieth-Century American Literatures; Transatlantic Modernism and Postmodernism Cinema: Post-1945 Cinema; Environmental Cinema; Documentary; Southern Cinema Theory: Ecocriticism; (Bio)Regionalism; Queer Theory; Gender Studies; Disability Studies ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS “‘Being Myriad, One’: Melville and the Ethics of the Ecological Sublime in Faulkner’s Go Down, Moses.” Studies in the Novel 46.1 (Spring 2014): 63-82. “Commemoration versus Commodification: Ron Rash and the Search for an Appalachian Literary Identity.” Appalachian Journal 42.1/2 (Fall 2013/Winter 2014): 104-23.