Timothy Ryan Day
Timothy Ryan Day was born in Oklahoma and grew up in Chicago. He is the author of the academic monograph Shakespeare and the Evolution of the Human Umwelt (Routledge 2021), the novel Big Sky (Adelaide 2020), and the poetry collection Green and Grey (Lemon Street Press 2019). He teaches Ecocrticism, Shakespeare, and Narrative Scholarship at Saint Louis University’s Madrid campus. Along with his academic and creative work, he has a long history in the food industry.
Biography
Timothy Ryan Day is Associate Professor of English Literature at Saint Louis University’s Madrid Campus where he teaches Shakespeare, Ecocriticism, and Creative Writing. His research interests include biosemiotics, food, and consciousness. His academic and creative work focuses on the relationship between mind and environment. Ryan’s monograph Shakespeare and the Evolution of the Human Umwelt: Adapt, Interpret, Mutate (Routledge 2021) addresses biosemiotics and emergence alongside literary adaptation. His novel Big Sky (Adelaide Books 2020) is a creative and historical engagement with the 1921 Tulsa race massacre. The poetry collection Green & Grey (Lemons Street Press 2019) aims to look at poetic emergence both in consciousness and nature. He has recently published articles in Green Letters, and Ecozon@, and has a chapter forthcoming in an MLA collection on food and literature. He holds a BA from Northeastern Illinois University, an MA in English from Saint Louis University, a Masters from the Autonomous University of Madrid, and a PhD from Arizona State University. He has taught at Universities in the United States, China, and Spain. He spent many years working in the restaurant industry and continues to be a partner and chef advisor in a Madrid based restaurant group. His classes often focus on the intersection of literature and food.Education
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PhD, Arizona State, 2016
Areas of Research / Professional Expertise
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ecocriticism, Shakespeare, food in literature, and narrative scholarship.
Personal Interests
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Music, books, travel, and fungi.
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Books
Articles
The Forest for the Trees: The unwelt, the holobiont, and metaphor in Richard Powers' "The Overstory" and Shakespeare's "Macbeth"
Published: Apr 01, 2023 by Ecozon@
Authors: Timothy Ryan Day
This work of ecocritical narrative scholarship weaves analysis of Richard Powers’ The Overstory—specifically its invocation of Shakespeare’s Macbeth—with a discussion of biosemiotics, metaphor, emergence, and the narrative of my own family’s pandemic-inspired move to a national park in the mountains outside of Madrid.
Review: Basura: Cultures of Waste in Contemporary Spain by Samuel Amago
Published: Apr 01, 2023 by Green Letters
Authors: Timothy Ryan Day
A review of Samuel Amago's monograph about waste in Spain.
With parted eye: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Richard Powers’ Orfeo, and Biosemiotics
Published: Jan 20, 2021 by Green Letters
Authors: Day, Timothy
Subjects:
Literature
An Biosemiotic and narrative analysis of Richard Powers’ Orfeo, Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Chicago’s Theater on the Lake.
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