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Timothy Ryan Day, Ph.D.


Department of English

Education

  • B.A. English, Northeastern Illinois University
  • M.A. English, Saint Louis University
  • Master en Estudios Literarios y Culturales, Autónoma de Madrid
  • Ph.D. English literature, Arizona State University

Practice Areas

  • Ecocriticism
  • Biosemiotics
  • Shakespeare
  • Narrative Scholarship and Creative Writing

Publications and Media Placements

Academic Book

Shakespeare and the Evolution of the Human Umwelt: Adapt, Interpret, and Mutate. London: Routledge. (2021)

Novels and Poetry

Leaven. Madrid: Ybernia Books (Coming 2026)

Outside Athens. New York: Adelaide Books (2024)

Big Sky. New York: Adelaide Books (2020)

Green and Grey. Madrid: Lemon Street Press. (2019)

Selected Articles and Chapters

"Hereafter the Kneading: Shakespeare, Symbiosis, and Yeast." Meteoritic Journal (Coming 2026)

"Swallow'd with Yeast and Froth: Shakespeare and Fermentation." Journal of Brewery History (Coming 2026)

"Proud Cedars, Mutinous Winds: Coriolanus, the microbiome, and Artificial Intelligence." Journal of Literature and Science (Coming 2026)

"The Wildest Stock." Teaching Food and Literature. MLA (Coming 2026)

"Everything that Grows: Photosynthesis, AI, and Shakespeare." Cultural Representations of Food and Drink in World Literature. Monica Monalachi and Lorena Clara Mihaes. (2025)

"Immortal Codes: Genetics, Ghosts, and Shakespeare's Sonnets." Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (2024)

"The Forest for the Trees: Richard Powers' the Overstory, Macbeth, and the Holobiont." Ecozon@. Vol 13. No 2. doi:10.37536/ECOZONA.2022.13.2.4398 (2022)

"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." Artesa Ediciones: Madrid. p. 78. (2016)

Reviews and Translations

Review: Shakespeare / Nature: Contemporary Readings in the Human and Non-human, edited Charlotte Scott, London, The Arden Shakespeare, 2024. Published in Green Letters (2025)

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 Pg. 3. Chicago: The Toucan. (2012).

Waiting For Tom. Screenplay. Quarterfinalist in the American Zoetrope Screenplay Contest (2010).

"Skewed Horizons." Apocalypse pg. 52. Chicago: Apocalypse Literary Arts Coalition. (2004).

The Orchard. Novel in revision.

Great Fires. Short story collection in revision.

Selected Conferences and Presentations

"Shakespeare to AI through the mythology of food." (University of Bucharest 2023)

"Grafting Kin: Literary and Literal Rootedness in John Fowle's The Tree, James Rebanks'  English Pastoral, and Shakespeare." (ASLE-UKI Galway 2025)

"Swallow'd with yeast and froth: Shakespeare and fermentation." (BSLS Lancaster 2025)

"Trees as Metaphors, Trees as Family: Diffraction in Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life, Ali Smith’s Autumn, and Shakespeare's Titus Andonricus." (BSLS, Birmingham 2024)

"Proud Cedars, Mutinous Winds: Coriolanus, the microbiome, and the holobiont." (BSLS, Edinburgh 2023)

"Apple to Apple and Bard to Bard: from Shakespeare to AI through the mythology of Food." (University of Bucharest 2023)

"Seeds: Media, Politics, Virality, and Text in Victor Conde and Amaya Galeote's" (Universidad de Murcia 2022)

"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)

"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, U.K. 2019)

"Applauding the Slaughter: Hamlet, and Pagan Spain." Saint Louis University Literature Conference. (Madrid 2016)