Jason Carney
Senior Lecturer
Director of the Alice F. Randall Writing Center
(757) 594-7755
McMurran Hall 206
Biography
Education
- Ph D in English, Case Western Reserve University
- MA in English, Ohio University
- BA in English, Otterbein University
Jason Ray Carney is an author and scholar of popular literature and pulp fiction. He holds a Ph.D. in English from Case Western Reserve University and is the author of Weird Tales of Modernity (McFarland, 2019), a study of interwar science fiction, fantasy, and horror that The Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts called "a valuable addition to the literature on its topic" deserving "a prominent place in the scholarship of American fantastic literature in the early twentieth century." He has guest edited a special issue of The Journal of American Culture on pulp studies, contributed criticism to the Los Angeles Review of Books and the Washington Independent Review of Books, and has presented his work at venues ranging from the Modernist Studies Association to San Diego Comic Con.
Teaching
Literature, Literary History, Literary Criticism and Theory, Creative Writing, Composition and Rhetoric
Research
The History of Literary Criticism, Literary Theory, Gothic Literature, Genre Fiction: Horror, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Creative Writing, Nonfiction Writing, Print Culture