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Timothy Ryan Day, Ph.D.


Department of English

Education

  • B.A. English, Northeastern Illinois University
  • M.A. English, SLU-Madrid/Autónoma de Madrid
  • Ph.D. English literature, Arizona State University

Practice Areas

  • Ecocriticism
  • Biosemiotics
  • Shakespeare in Contemporary Culture
  • Narrative Scholarship

Publications and Media Placements

Books

  • Shakespeare and the Evolution of the Human Umwelt: Adapt, Interpret, and Mutate. London: Routledge. (2021).
  • Big Sky. New York: Adelaide Books. (2020).
  • Green and Grey. Madrid: Lemon Street Press. (2019).
Articles and Chapters
  • "Immortal Codes: Genetics, Ghosts, and Shakespeare's Sonnets" Interdisciplinary Science Reviews. Vol 48. Issue 3. London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.1080/03080188.2023.2193796 (2023)
  • "The Forest for the Trees: Richard Powers' the Overstory, Macbeth, and the Holobiont." Ecozon@. Vol 13. No 2. https://doi.org/10.37536/ECOZONA.2022.13.2.4398 (2022).
  • "The Wildest Stock." Food and Literature. MLA (Publication forthcoming in 2023).
  • Day, Timothy. "With Parted Eye: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Richard Powers', Orfeo, and Biosemiotics" Green Letters. Vol 21. No. 3. London: Routledge. doi: 10.1080/14688417.2018.1512418. (2018).
  • Day, Timothy and Andrew Power. "Partiendo el Pan en Shakespeare." Pan. Artesa Ediciones: Madrid. p. 78. (2016).
Reviews and Translations
  • Review: Basura: Cultures of Waste in Contemporary Spain. Amago, Samuel. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2021. Published in Green Letters (2022).
  • Translation: García, Teresa and García, Alberto. "Breathing with the Other: Ethics and Eco-socialist Perspective in the Poetry of Jorge Riechmann." Ecozon@. Vol 6. No. 1. (2015).
Creative Publications and Works in Progress
  • "Frozen." The Toucan 15. Pg. 3. Chicago: The Toucan. (2012).
  • Waiting For Tom. Screenplay. Quarterfinalist in the American Zoetrope Screenplay Contest (2010).
  • "Skewed Horizons." Apocalypse 12. pg. 52. Chicago: Apocalypse Literary Arts Coalition. (2004).
  • The Orchard. Novel in revision.
  • Great Fires. Short story collection in revision.
Conferences and Presentations
  • "Pursued by Gaps: The Winter's Tale, the holobiont, and illusions of autonomy." European Society for the Study of Literature. (Mainz 2022).
  • "Speaking from Beyond the Grave: Ghosts and Genetics in Shakespeare." Swiss Association of Medieval and Early Modern English Studies. (Neuchatel 2022).
  • "Shakespeare's Genesis: Poetry, Emergence, and Biosemiotics." 4th International Conference on Science and Literature. (Girona 2022).
  • "A Gentler Scion: Katherine May's Wintering, Shakespeare's the Winter's Tale, and Madrid's Uncanny Winter Storm." Nature and Narrative Conference (Madrid 2022).
  • "Pursued by a Bear: The Human and the Animal in Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale." Midwestern Modern Language Association. (Milwaukee 2020). Accepted but could not attend.
  • "John Milton's Paradise Regained as Response to the Black Legend of Spanish Cruelty." SEDERI Conference. Universidad de La Laguna. (Tenerife 2021).
  • "Dystopia Now: Richard Powers' The Overstory and Shakespeare’s Macbeth." Revisiting Dystopia in Literature and the Visual Arts. (UCAM, Murcia 2020).
  • "Light and Enlightenment: Milton in Ian McEwan's Solar." Retaking Earth: From Nature Writing to Climate Change Fiction. Nova University (Lisbon 2020).
  • "Migrations: Butterflies and Shakespeare in Barabara Kingsolvers's Flight Behavior" Midwestern Modern Language Association (Chicago 2019).
  • "Co-conspirators: invoking MacBeth in Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake" Association for the Study of Literature and Environment-UKI. Plymouth University. (Plymouth, UK 2019).
  • "Applauding the Slaughter: Hamlet, and Pagan Spain." Saint Louis University Literature Conference. (Madrid 2016).
  • "Gardens of Discovery." Saint Louis University Literature Conference. (Madrid 2015).
  • "Uncanny Justice: Amazons and the Technology of Colonization." Saint Louis Graduate Student Conference (Madrid 2008).
  • "Joyce and the Dialogic Creation of Home and the Present." Saint Louis Madrid Graduate Student Colloquium (Madrid 2007).
  • "Emily Dickinson and the Birth of the Photographic Image." Saint Louis Madrid Graduate Student Conference (Madrid 2006).
  • "Jean Genet: Perceptions of a Thief and Poet." Northeastern Illinois University Honors Colloquium (2006).
  • "Unwound Dancers." Northeastern Illinois University Creative Colloquium (2006).
  • "Kafka and Nationalist Prague." Northeastern Illinois University Honors Colloquium (2005).
  • "Ivan and Zosima: Religion and Conflict in the Brother's Karamazov." Northeastern Illinois University Honors Colloquium (2004).