T. Ryan Day
T. Ryan Day teaches creative writing and literature at Saint Louis University’s Madrid campus. He has taught at Universities in China, the United States, France and Spain. His work has appeared in forums such as Green Letters, Ecozon@, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, The Nervous Breakdown, and The Toucan, among others. His books include the novels Outside Athens (Adelaide 2024) and Big Sky (Adelaide 2020), the poetry collection Green & Grey (Lemon Street Press 2019), and Shakespeare and the Evolution of the Human Umwelt (Routledge 2021).
Curriculum Vitae
Professional Background
Education
Ph.D. in English Literature
Ph.D. in English Literature from Arizona State University, specializing in Early Modern Theater.
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M.A. In English Literature from Saint Louis University
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Master en Estudios Literarios y Culturales from the Universidad Autonomo de Madrid
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BA from Northeastern Illinois University
Teaching Experience
Associate Professor of English Literature
Saint Louis University 2018-Present
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Assistant Professor of English Literature
Saint Louis University 2016-2018
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Instructor of Writing
Saint Louis University 2012-2016
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Senior Lecturer
American University of Paris (Summer 2024)
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Instructor of Writing
Arizona State University 2009-2011
Scottsdale Community College
Instructor
Shantou University 2008-2009
Served as a Professor of Creative Writing at ABC University for over a decade, mentoring aspiring writers and fostering a creative learning environment.
Awards and Projects
Consultant for the company Divertifica on the creation of a video game, “The Seeds ofFate” based on the text of Macbeth (2023-present)
Waiting For Tom. Screenplay. Quarterfinalist in the American Zoetrope ScreenplayContest (2010)
Courses
Recognition & Achievements
Ecocriticism
Introduction to Shakespeare
Alchemists, Cooks, and Witches
Milton
Travel Writing
Nature, Ecology and Literature
Food and Literature
Monsters of Europe
Media, Technology and Literature
Literature and Medicine
Introduction to Poetry
Conflict, Social Justice and Literature
Creative Writing: Fiction
Creative Writing: Memoir
Advanced Writing for Professionals
The Process of Composition
Research
Select Publications
“Trees as Metaphors, Trees as Family: Diffraction in Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life, Ali Smith’s Autumn, and Shakespeare’s Titus Andonricus.” Treelines. Ed. Stephen O’Neill (Forthcoming)
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“The Wildest Stock.” Food and Literature. MLA (In Press) “Immortal Codes: Genetics, Ghosts, and Shakespeare’s Sonnets.” Interdisciplinary Science Research. London: Routledge. (Forthcoming)
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"Everything that Grows." Cultural Representations of Food and Drinks in World Literature. Ed. Monica Monolachi. (Forthcoming).
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“Immortal Codes: Genetics, Ghosts, and Shakespeare’s Sonnets.” Interdisciplinary Science Research. London: Routledge. (2023)
“The Forest for the Trees: Richard Powers’ the Overstory, Macbeth, and the Holobiont.” Ecozon@. Vol. 13 No. 2 (2022)
Day, Timothy. “With Parted Eye: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Richard Powers’, Orfeo, and Biosemiotics” Green Letters. Vol 21. No. 3. London: Routledge. (2018)
Day, Timothy and Andrew Power. “Partiendo el Pan en Shakespeare.” Pan. Artesa Ediciones: Madrid. p. 78. (2016)
Review: Basura: Cultures of Waste in Contemporary Spain. Amago, Samuel. Charlotesville: University of Virginia Press, 2021. Published in Green Letters (2022)
Translation: Garcia, Teresa and Garcia, Alberto. “Breathing with the Other: Ethics and Eco-socialist Perspective in the Poetry of Jorge Riechmann.” Ecozon@. Vol 6. No.
1. (2015)
Conferences
Speaker & Presenter
“Trees as Metaphors, Trees as Family: Microbiomes, AI, and Diffraction in Ali Smith’s Autumn, and Shakespeare’s Titus Andonricus.” Conference of Three Societies on Literature and Science. (Birmingham April 2024).
“Apple to Apple and Bard to Bard: from Shakespeare to AI through the mythology of food.” The International Conference of the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures and the University of Bucharest. (Bucharest 2023).
“Proud Cedars, Mutinous Winds: Coriolanus, the Microbiome, and the Holobiont.” British
Society for Literature and Science Conference. (Edinburgh 2023).
“I See a Damaged Planet: Diffractive Reading, Biosemiotics and Reconstituting the
Human through Shakespeare in HBO’s Station Eleven.” TVSERIES 2022.
(Valencia 2022)
“Shakespearean Family Trees: A Diffractive Memoir of Metaphor, Literature and Genetics.” Tree Lines. (Maynooth 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).
“Seeds: Media, Politics, Virality, and Text in Victor Conde and Amaya Galeote’s
Macbeth.” Macbeth in European Culture. (Murcia 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).
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“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).