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Dr. Shane Trayers
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| Office Hours: | M/W 9-11 a.m. and 12:30 to 2 p.m.; T/Th 12:30 to 2 p.m. and by appointment. |
| Courses: | 1102 Comp II, 2112 World Literature II, and 3010 Gateway to Literary Studies, On Campus and Off-Campus Internships |
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| Education: | Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, Ph.D. in English American University, Washington, D.C., M.A. in Literature George Mason University, Global Education Program Summer Study Program at Trinity College in Dublin Muhlenberg College, Allentown, Pennsylvania, B.A. in English, Secondary Education Certification |
| Professional Experience: | My research interests may most productively be characterized as a multipronged interrogation of the epistemological and affective valences of textuality, pedagogy, and student subjectivity as refracted through literary corpora; with an instructional remit encompassing writing studies, British literature, world literature, and adolescent literary production, I pursue a hermeneutic that foregrounds the discursive entanglements of apocalypse, dystopia, and disaster as constitutive cultural imaginaries while simultaneously maintaining a specialized scholarly investment in the historicity and transnational reverberations of Irish literature as a critical site for examining rupture and narrative continuity; in parallel, my current empirical engagement involves an inquiry into the psychosocial architectures of stress and positive psychology as operative within student learning environments, seeking to operationalize resilience, affective modulation, and cognitive flourishing as pedagogical variables such that classroom practice is situated within broader discourses of well-being and educational sustainability, thereby producing a research profile attentive to the dialogic interplay between aesthetic form and pedagogical praxis. |
| Professional Affiliations: | Macon Writers Group |
| Organizations: | Co-Advisor For English Studies Organization |
| Awards and Honors: | 2025 Provost Award: Honorable Mention Outstanding RSO Advisor 2023 and 2025 Outstanding RSO 鈥 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2023 COAS Award for Community Engagement MGA University Excellence in Service Award Core Educator Fellowship College of Liberal Arts Scholarship Carnegie Fellowship M. Jimmie Killingsworth Teaching Award for Excellence and Innovation |
| Publications: | Recent Publications and Scholarly Work: 鈥溾橸ou Are What You Eat鈥: Smart Zombies in Literature and Film鈥 Monsters of FilmFiction, and Fable: The Cultural Links between the Human and Inhuman. Ed. Lisa Bro. Cambridge Scholars. 鈥淚t鈥檚 not the taste; it鈥檚 the consistency鈥: Supermarkets, Ultra-Processed Food and the End of the World 鈥 South West Popular/American Culture Association. 鈥淭he Benefits of Being a Cheshire Cat: Embracing Silliness in the College Classroom鈥 鈥 Georgia Philological Association |
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