Institution | Degree | Graduation Date |
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University of Nevada, Reno | Ph.D. | 2001 |
University of Houston | M.A. in English | 1997 |
University of Missouri-Columbia | M.A. in journalism | 1991 |
Baylor University | B.A. in English | 1989 |
Employer | Position | Start Date | End Date |
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Midwestern State University | Professor and Chair | 08/30/2019 | |
Midwestern State University | Chair, Department of English, Humanities, and Philosophy, and Professor of English | ||
Eastern Oregon University | Associate Professor | ||
Idaho State University | Assistant Professor | ||
Henderson State University | Professor of English | ||
Idaho State University | Associate Professor |
Exploring Severance: Interdisciplinary Considerations of Apple TVâs Psychological Thriller editor with Dr. Nora Isacoff, under contract, Palgrave Macmillan
Dark Tourism in the American West (Palgrave Macmillan 2019) -- editor of collection of essays; and "Revisitng Waco and the Branch Davidian Tragedy" (in the collection)
"The Desert as Dumping Ground in Popular Imagination" in Reading Aridity, eds. Jada Ach and Gary Reger, Lexington Books, 2020.
Across the Plains: Sarah Royceâs Western Narrative. Womenâs Western Voices Series. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2009. (as Jennifer Dawes Adkison)
âSacrament to Sacrilege: Human Flesh as Sustenance in Alive and The Road,â in Food on Film: Bringing Something New to the Table. Tom Hertweck, ed. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2014. 187-200. (as Jennifer Dawes Adkison)
ââThese is my wordsâ . . . Or Are They?: Constructing Western Womenâs Lives in Two Contemporary Novels,â Great Plains Quarterly 26.1 (Winter 2006): 13-25. (as Jennifer Dawes Adkison)
âWhat Passes Away: Visions of Time in Susan Fenimore Cooperâs Rural Hours,â in Susan Fenimore Cooper: New Essays on Rural Hours and Other Works. Rochelle Johnson and Daniel Patterson, eds. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2001. 154-168.