Eileen A. Joy (also Eileen A. Fradenburg Joy; born 1962) is an American literary critic who is a specialist in Old English literary studies Glasgow Review of Books, Interview with Eileen A. Joy by Tom White, 7 May 2013 and cultural studies Eileen A. Joy Figure/Ground interview by Andrew Hines. September 17th, 2012 and is the publisher and founding director of Punctum Books: spontaneous acts of scholarly combustion. Eileen A. Joy at Punctum Books
She holds a B.A. in English from Virginia Commonwealth University (1984), an M.F.A. in Fiction from Virginia Commonwealth University (1992) and a Ph.D. in Medieval Literature Radical Hope for Medieval and Early Modern Studies (an interview with Eileen Joy) and Intellectual History from University of Tennessee (2001) with a dissertation Beowulf and the Floating Wreck of History. Eileen A. Fradenburg Joy at Humanities Commons She is the founder of the BABEL Working Group and is co-editor of postmedieval: a journal of medieval cultural studies. Eileen Joy, Our Fearless Open Access Leader at UCSB by Skyler DePaoli, Mar 23, 2019 The Funambulist Podcast: Episode 04 with Eileen A. Joy
Research interests Joy's research interests Eileen A. Joy at Hummanities Common also span poetry and poetics, intellectual history, ethics, affects, embodiment, queer studies, object/thing studies,Eileen A. Joy: Notes Toward a Speculative Realist Literary Criticism at Svenska Twitteruniversitetet, July 16, 2012 the ecological, post-humanisms, and open access scholarly communications. Pressing for Revolution Lab, by Jim Logan at The Current
Academic positions Associate Professor, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (August 2009 - August 2013) Assistant Professor, Southern Illinois University (August 2006 - July 2009) and Director of Graduate Studies (May 2007 - August 2009) Visiting Assistant Professor, Coastal Carolina University (August 2005 - August 2006) Assistant Professor, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (August 2003 - July 2005) Visiting Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina-Asheville (July 2002 - July 2003) Assistant Professor, Francis Marion University (August 2000 - July 2002)
Publications Joy, E.A. 2013, Weird Reading, Speculations IV: pp. 28–34 Levi Bryant and Eileen A. Joy, Preface: Object/Ecology, O-Zone: A Journal of Object-Oriented Studies Issue 1 :: Object/Ecology :: 2014, Eileen A. Joy, A choir or cacophony? Sample sizes and quality of conveying participants’ voices in phenomenological research, with Theodore T Bartholomew, Ellice Kang and Jill Brown, Methodological Innovations May–August 2021: pp. 1–14 Eileen A. Joy and Christine M. Neufeld, A Confession of Faith: Notes Toward a New Humanism Journal of Narrative Theory, Volume 37, Number 2, Summer 2007, pp. 161–190, Published by Eastern Michigan University
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