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“Future Environments” & “Interspecies Friendship” Descriptions and Reading Lists
Categories: Uncategorized – Posted on August 20, 2022

“Future Environments” & “Interspecies Friendship” Descriptions and Reading Lists

Posted August 20, 2022: People have been contacting me lately about my course descriptions and reading lists for two advanced literature courses that I taught in the Fall and Spring … Continue reading >“Future Environments” & “Interspecies Friendship” Descriptions and Reading Lists

AXO Teaching Award for Promoting Social Justice
Categories: Uncategorized – Posted on August 20, 2022

AXO Teaching Award for Promoting Social Justice

Posted August 20, 2022: I was selected to receive an AXO teaching award for my teaching at Fordham University. These awards are “designed to recognize outstanding teaching that combats racism … Continue reading >AXO Teaching Award for Promoting Social Justice

My Contact Info at the University of Konstanz
Categories: Uncategorized – Posted on August 1, 2022

My Contact Info at the University of Konstanz

Posted August 1, 2022: For my contact info at the University of Konstanz, please check out the following link.

I am now a Postdoctoral Researcher with the University of Konstanz
Categories: Uncategorized – Posted on June 15, 2022

I am now a Postdoctoral Researcher with the University of Konstanz

Posted June 1, 2022: Exciting news! I have accepted a Postdoctoral Researcher position at the University of Konstanz in Germany. In my role as a postdoc I will be working with … Continue reading >I am now a Postdoctoral Researcher with the University of Konstanz

My Article “Surfacing Ecological Disaster” Has Been Published
Categories: Uncategorized – Posted on March 28, 2022March 28, 2022

My Article “Surfacing Ecological Disaster” Has Been Published

Posted March 28, 2022: My article “Surfacing Ecological Disaster: Poets for Living Waters and the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill” has been published in a special issue of Zeitschrift für Anglistik und … Continue reading >My Article “Surfacing Ecological Disaster” Has Been Published

What is Ocean Studies?, A Special Event
Categories: Uncategorized – Posted on November 9, 2021January 7, 2022

What is Ocean Studies?, A Special Event

Posted November 8, 2021: On Monday, October 18, 2021 I had the particular pleasure of speaking with Fordham Professor Keri Walsh’s “Modern Irish Literature” course on the topic of “What … Continue reading >What is Ocean Studies?, A Special Event

Reading List for Interspecies Friendship Course
Categories: Uncategorized – Posted on October 12, 2021January 7, 2022

Reading List for Interspecies Friendship Course

Posted October 11, 2021: Some people have expressed interest in my “Interspecies Friendship” class. This is an Advanced Literature Class that I’m teaching this fall (2021) at Fordham University. The … Continue reading >Reading List for Interspecies Friendship Course

My Interview on Unchefed, “Plastics are Anti-archives,” is Available!
Categories: Uncategorized – Posted on October 12, 2021January 7, 2022

My Interview on Unchefed, “Plastics are Anti-archives,” is Available!

Posted September 15, 2021: I am quite pleased that my interview with Brendan and Matt, hosts of the podcast “Unchefed,” is available below and at https://www.unchefed.com/episodes/plastics-are-anti-archives-with-dr-aaron-pinnix. In this interview I … Continue reading >My Interview on Unchefed, “Plastics are Anti-archives,” is Available!

ASLE Presentation: Poisoned Islands in the Poetry of Haunani-Kay Trask and Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner
Categories: Uncategorized – Posted on July 8, 2021January 7, 2022

ASLE Presentation: Poisoned Islands in the Poetry of Haunani-Kay Trask and Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner

Posted July 8, 2021: My presentation “Poisoned Islands in the Poetry of Haunani-Kay Trask and Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner” has been accepted for inclusion in the 2021 Association for the Study of … Continue reading >ASLE Presentation: Poisoned Islands in the Poetry of Haunani-Kay Trask and Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner

ASLE Presentation: Surfacing Ecological Disaster
Categories: Uncategorized – Posted on June 28, 2021January 7, 2022

ASLE Presentation: Surfacing Ecological Disaster

Posted June 23, 2021: My presentation “Surfacing Ecological Disaster: Poets for Living Waters and the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill” has been accepted for inclusion in the 2021 Association for the … Continue reading >ASLE Presentation: Surfacing Ecological Disaster

Interspecies Friendship
Categories: Uncategorized – Posted on March 4, 2021June 27, 2021

Interspecies Friendship

Posted March 4, 2021: I’m excited to be teaching an English elective titled “Interspecies Friendship” in the fall at Fordham University.  I’ve included a course description and brief introduction, below.  … Continue reading >Interspecies Friendship

Guest on the Podcast “Unchefed”
Categories: Uncategorized – Posted on February 1, 2021June 29, 2021

Guest on the Podcast “Unchefed”

Posted January 30, 2021: I’m happy to report that I was a guest today on the podcast “Unchefed. ” I spoke with hosts Brendan Costello and Matt Carden on the … Continue reading >Guest on the Podcast “Unchefed”

Surfacing Ecological Disaster: Poets for Living Waters and the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
Categories: Uncategorized – Posted on January 2, 2021June 29, 2021

Surfacing Ecological Disaster: Poets for Living Waters and the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill

Posted January 2, 2021: I have posted below the abstract for an article I am currently working on for an edited collection, hopefully to be published as part of the … Continue reading >Surfacing Ecological Disaster: Poets for Living Waters and the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill

Briny Exchanges: Literature, Commerce, and the Sea
Categories: Uncategorized – Posted on October 22, 2020June 29, 2021

Briny Exchanges: Literature, Commerce, and the Sea

Posted October 22, 2020: In the spring I’ll be teaching two sections of my course “Briny Exchanges.” This course is made especially for advanced students of Fordham’s Gabelli School of … Continue reading >Briny Exchanges: Literature, Commerce, and the Sea

Fall 2020 Courses: “Journeying and Storytelling” and “Food & Food Horror”
Categories: Uncategorized – Posted on August 22, 2020June 29, 2021

Fall 2020 Courses: “Journeying and Storytelling” and “Food & Food Horror”

Posted August 22, 2020: I am very excited to be teaching two new courses at Fordham University this fall — the 3000 level course “Journeying and Storytelling” and the 1000 … Continue reading >Fall 2020 Courses: “Journeying and Storytelling” and “Food & Food Horror”

Caribbean Revolts and Revolutions
Categories: Uncategorized – Posted on July 9, 2020June 29, 2021

Caribbean Revolts and Revolutions

Posted July 9, 2020: I believe that now is a rewarding time to revisit and reconsider historical periods of social change. In addition to my previous post about “The Long … Continue reading >Caribbean Revolts and Revolutions

The Long Hot Summer of 1967
Categories: Uncategorized – Posted on June 24, 2020June 29, 2021

The Long Hot Summer of 1967

Posted June 24, 2020: Though it is often overshadowed by the earlier 1965 Watts riots and the 1968 riots, “The Long Hot Summer of 1967” has many similarities with today’s … Continue reading >The Long Hot Summer of 1967

Ocean Life, Online Summer Course
Categories: Uncategorized – Posted on June 24, 2020June 29, 2021

Ocean Life, Online Summer Course

Posted June 23, 2020: I am excited to be teaching the online course “Ocean Life,” a writing intensive literature course that explores how depictions of ocean life reveal surprising insights … Continue reading >Ocean Life, Online Summer Course

PhD Completed
Categories: Uncategorized – Posted on May 8, 2020June 29, 2021

PhD Completed

Posted May 1, 2020: Having successfully defended my dissertation, “Subaqueous Poetics: Oceanic Depths in Modern and Contemporary Poetry,” on April 22, I am happy to announce that I am now … Continue reading >PhD Completed

My Book Review of “The Mad Scientist’s Guide to Composition” Has Been Published
Categories: Uncategorized – Posted on February 10, 2020June 29, 2021

My Book Review of “The Mad Scientist’s Guide to Composition” Has Been Published

Posted February 10, 2020: My review of Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock’s The Mad Scientist’s Guide to Composition: A Somewhat Cheeky but Exceedingly Useful Introduction to Academic Writing (Broadview Press, 2019) has … Continue reading >My Book Review of “The Mad Scientist’s Guide to Composition” Has Been Published

Come See My Presentation at 2020 Popular Culture Association National Conference
Categories: Uncategorized – Posted on January 27, 2020June 29, 2021

Come See My Presentation at 2020 Popular Culture Association National Conference

Posted January 27, 2020: UPDATE: Unfortunately, this panel, and the conference more broadly, have been cancelled due to COVID.  Join us on Thursday April 16, 2020 from 3 to 4:30 … Continue reading >Come See My Presentation at 2020 Popular Culture Association National Conference

“Sargassum in the Black Atlantic” Selected as 2019 Atlantic Studies Early Career Essay Award
Categories: Uncategorized – Posted on November 26, 2019July 26, 2021

“Sargassum in the Black Atlantic” Selected as 2019 Atlantic Studies Early Career Essay Award

Posted November 26, 2019: My article “Sargassum in the Black Atlantic: Entanglement and the abyss in Bearden, Walcott, and Philip” has been awarded the 2019 Atlantic Studies Early Career Essay … Continue reading >“Sargassum in the Black Atlantic” Selected as 2019 Atlantic Studies Early Career Essay Award

Lodge 49 and the Pleasures of Profitless Expenditure
Categories: Uncategorized – Posted on October 23, 2019June 29, 2021

Lodge 49 and the Pleasures of Profitless Expenditure

Posted October 23, 2019: UPDATE: This panel, and the conference more broadly, have been cancelled due to COVID. I am excited to announce that my presentation has been accepted for … Continue reading >Lodge 49 and the Pleasures of Profitless Expenditure

Websites Live for Fordham’s Two Journals of First-Year Writing
Categories: Uncategorized – Posted on October 8, 2019June 29, 2021

Websites Live for Fordham’s Two Journals of First-Year Writing

Posted October 7, 2019: As co-editor of EP and Rhētorikós, I’m happy to announce that EP joins Rhētorikós in having a digital home!  EP and Rhētorikós publish the strongest examples of first-year … Continue reading >Websites Live for Fordham’s Two Journals of First-Year Writing

My Article “Night of the Living Dead Dissects the News” Accepted for Publication
Categories: Uncategorized – Posted on September 30, 2019June 29, 2021

My Article “Night of the Living Dead Dissects the News” Accepted for Publication

Posted August 15, 2019: “We interrupt to bring this to you…” My article “Night of the Living Dead Dissects the News: Race, the 1967 Riots, and ‘Dead Neighbors’” has been … Continue reading >My Article “Night of the Living Dead Dissects the News” Accepted for Publication

Learning to Breathe Underwater – The Tidalectics of Rukeyser’s “Anemone”
Categories: Uncategorized – Posted on September 30, 2019June 29, 2021

Learning to Breathe Underwater – The Tidalectics of Rukeyser’s “Anemone”

Posted June 15, 2019: My discussion of Muriel Rukeyser’s poem “Anemone” has been posted to the excellent website Muriel Rukeyser: A Living Archive. I discuss Rukeyser’s poem in relation to the … Continue reading >Learning to Breathe Underwater – The Tidalectics of Rukeyser’s “Anemone”

“Migrant: A Triptych” Publication
Categories: Uncategorized – Posted on September 30, 2019June 29, 2021

“Migrant: A Triptych” Publication

Posted June 12, 2019: My poem “Migrant: A Triptych,” which received the Suzanna Cohen Legacy Foundation Prize  has been published in vol. 1 of (un)common sense, with a special focus … Continue reading >“Migrant: A Triptych” Publication

Alumni Dissertation Fellowship
Categories: Uncategorized – Posted on September 30, 2019June 29, 2021

Alumni Dissertation Fellowship

Posted May 15, 2019: It is my great pleasure to announce that I have been selected as a Fordham Alumni Dissertation Fellow!  This prestigious fellowship means I will have a … Continue reading >Alumni Dissertation Fellowship

Fordham Graduate Seminar in Jesuit Pedagogy
Categories: Aaron Pinnix – Posted on May 6, 2019October 12, 2021

Fordham Graduate Seminar in Jesuit Pedagogy

Posted May 3, 2019: “Envision Your Way to Success: Using Composition of Place to Encourage Forethought in the Classroom” I’ll be discussing the benefits of adapting Saint Ignatius of Loyola’s … Continue reading >Fordham Graduate Seminar in Jesuit Pedagogy

Water Logics Conference: “Liquid Materiality and Language”
Categories: Aaron Pinnix – Posted on April 10, 2019June 29, 2021

Water Logics Conference: “Liquid Materiality and Language”

Posted March 29, 2019: “Liquid Materiality and Language” Friday, April 12, 2019 10:00-12:00 (excerpt from Sea and Spar Between) I will be presenting material from my dissertation at the Water Logics Conference, … Continue reading >Water Logics Conference: “Liquid Materiality and Language”

Second Annual Supernatural Studies Conference
Categories: Aaron Pinnix – Posted on March 29, 2019June 29, 2021

Second Annual Supernatural Studies Conference

Posted March 29, 2019: Bugs and Blood: Alien 3 and The Bel Dame Apocrypha and Social Outrage I am very excited to be attending the second Supernatural Studies Conference. The … Continue reading >Second Annual Supernatural Studies Conference

Suzanna Cohen Legacy Foundation Prize for “Migrant: A Triptych”
Categories: Aaron Pinnix – Posted on March 26, 2019June 29, 2021

Suzanna Cohen Legacy Foundation Prize for “Migrant: A Triptych”

Posted March 26, 2019: My poem “Migrant: A Triptych” received the Suzanna Cohen Legacy Foundation (SCLF) Prize, and will be published online. I’ll link the poem once it’s up. The … Continue reading >Suzanna Cohen Legacy Foundation Prize for “Migrant: A Triptych”

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