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 | 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 |
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" (forthcoming in Reading Aridity, eds. Jada Ach and Gary Reger, Lexington Books)
Across the Plains: Sarah Royce’s Western Narrative. Women’s Western Voices Series. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2009. (as Jennifer Dawes Adkison)
“Sacrament to Sacrilege: Human Flesh as Sustenance in Alive and The Road,” in Food on Film: Bringing Something New to the Table. Tom Hertweck, ed. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2014. 187-200. (as Jennifer Dawes Adkison)
“‘These is my words’ . . . Or Are They?: Constructing Western Women’s Lives in Two Contemporary Novels,” Great Plains Quarterly 26.1 (Winter 2006): 13-25. (as Jennifer Dawes Adkison)
“What Passes Away: Visions of Time in Susan Fenimore Cooper’s Rural Hours,” 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.