Contact

Office: Maes 42
Phone: 409-880-8584
anemmers@lamar.edu

Courses Taught

Literature

• Early American Travel Narratives
• Native American Renaissance (Undergraduate and Graduate)
• African-American Literature
• The Harlem Renaissance (Undergraduate and Graduate)
• Multi-ethnic Modernism
• Modern Critical Theory (Undergraduate and Graduate)
• Children's and Adolescent Literature: Young Adult Dystopian Fiction
• Ethics and Literature
  • Love, Lust, and Literature
  • Making and Spending Money
  • The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence
• Modernism in American Literature (Undergraduate and Graduate)
• American Literature
• Introduction to Literature
• American Literature to 1865
• American Literature after 1945
• The American Dream

Composition

• Honors Composition
• Developmental Writing
• English Composition I and II
• Rhetoric of Written Argument
• Rhetoric of Written Argument in Context
• College Writing 1
  • Exploring Natural Disasters
  • 9/11 Ten Years Later
  • Revolutions
• Writing as Inquiry: The Internet and Us
• Writing as Argument: 
  • The Ideal Human Society
  • Hoaxes, Frauds, and Charlatans
  • Rhetoric of Sports Discourse
  • Political Rhetoric

Creative Writing

• Introduction to Creative Writing
• Reading as a Writer

Women and Gender Studies

• Introduction to Women's and Gender Studies 

Service

• Sophomore Textbook Committee, Department of English and Modern Languages, Lamar University, 2021-present.
• Lamar University Faculty Mentorship Program, 2021-present.
• Recruitment and Retention Committee, Department of English and Modern Languages, Lamar University, 2021-present.
• Examination Committee, Spring Alex Bourquein, 2021.
• Council on Inclusive Excellence, Lamar University, 2020-present.
• Reviewer, Clemson University Press, 2020-present.
• Chair, Faculty Library Committee, Lamar University, 2019-present.
• Graduate Admissions Committee, Department of Department of English and Modern Languages, Lamar University, 2019-present.
• Thesis Director, Lauren Swift, 2019-present.
• Faculty Advisor, Pulse Literary Magazine, Lamar University, 2019-present.
• Thesis Committee, Theresa Duffus, Spring 2020.
• Submission Judge, Short Fiction and Scholarly Essay, Pulse Literary Magazine, 2017-2019.
• Volunteer Mentor, Northeast Modern Language Association (NEMLA) Job Clinic, March 2019.
• Faculty Judge, Annual Humanities, Arts, Social and Behavior Sciences, Education and Business (HASBSEB) Conference, Lamar University, 2018-2019.
• Faculty Sponsor, Study Abroad Directed Pedagogy by Alex Bourquein, Fall 2018.
• Advance Course Committee, Department of English and Modern Languages, 2018-present.
• Hiring Committee, Department of English and Modern Languages, 2018-present.
• Research Supervisor for Lauren Garcia, Summer 2018.
• Faculty Reviewer, Pearson Revel, 2018.
• College Level Entrance Placement committee, Lamar University, 2017-present.
• Open Education Resources Faculty Respondent, 2017.
• Graduate Faculty, Lamar University, 2017-present.
• Digital Course Reviewer, Lamar University, 2017-present.
• Honors College Student Mentor, Lamar University, 2017-present.
• Internal Reader, Sandra Brown Excellence in Literary Fiction Scholarship Competition, 2016-17.
• English Department Graduate Student Diversity Committee, 2016-17.
• Student Representative, WGST Academic Program Review, February 2017.
• Judge, GlobalEX Discovering Global Citizenship Initiative. 2016.
• TCU Women and Gender Studies Symposium Planning Committee, 2016.
• TCU Extended Education, Creative Writing Classes, Summer 2014-2016.
• Research Assistant, Dr. Theresa Gaul, Spring 2016-17.
• Webmaster, Teaching Transatlanticism, 2015-2016.
• Student Representative, English Department Self-Study Review, 2015-2016.
• English Graduate Student Mentoring Program Coordinator, 2015-2017.
• TCU Women and Gender Studies Symposium Program Committee, 2015.
• TCU English Department QEP Self-Study Reviewer and Researcher. Summer 2015.
• External Reviewer, Journey Into Literature, 2^nd Edition, 2014.
• TCU Women’s Studies Recruitment and Promotion Committee, 2013-2014.
• Judge, PIP English Conference, Paschal High School, Fort Worth, TX, 2013-2014.
• Coordinator, Hugh C. Hyde Living Writers Series, San Diego State University, 2009-10.
• Student Representative, Faculty Search Committee, Gustavus Adolphus College, 2007.

Publications

Books

American Modern(ist) Epic: Novels to Refound a Nation. Under contract, Clemson University Press, forthcoming 2021.

Transatlantic Anglophone Literatures 1776-1920. Edited by Sarah Robbins, Linda Hughes, and Andrew Taylor; associate editors Adam Nemmers and Heidi Hakimi-Hood. Under contract, Edinburgh University Press, forthcoming 2021.  

Yours in Filial Regards: The Civil War Letters of a Texan Family. Edited by Kassia Waggoner and Adam Nemmers. TCU Press, 2015. 192 pp. 

Essays and Articles

“‘A Manual or Something’: The Process of African-Americanization in Ibi Zoboi’s YA Fiction.” Africana and American and Female in Young Adult Fiction, edited by Ymitri Mathison, University of Mississippi Press, forthcoming 2022.

“Stirring the Melting Pot: The Midwestern Farm Town as Transnational Nexus.” Transnational American Spaces, edited by Tina Powell and Patricia Sagasti Suppes. Vernon Press, forthcoming 2022.

“The Prairie’s Ever-present Heartaches: Ecogothic and the American Midwest.” Revisions of Eden: The Idea of the Midwestern Gothic, edited by Brandi Homan and Julia Madsen, forthcoming 2022.

“A Conspiracy of Silence: The Suppressed Protest of The Jungle and The Grapes of Wrath.” Transatlantica: Revue d’Études Américaines: An American Studies Journal, forthcoming 2021.

“Between Two Families: The Mammy as Matriarch.” Through Mama’s Eyes: Unique Perspectives on Southern Matriarchy, edited by Cheylon Woods and Kiwana McClung, University of Louisiana at Lafayette Press, 2021, pp. 1-15.

 “‘One Had to Have Castes’: Class, Culture, and Ideology in American Tragedy.” The Working Class in American Literature: Essays on Blue Collar Identity, edited by John Lavelle and Debbie Lelekis, McFarland Press, 2021, pp. 121-40.

“A Stand Abandoned: The Southern Agrarians and the Second Lost Cause.” The Southern Quarterly, vol. 57, no. 2/3, pp. 40-57.

“The Pawn’s Gambit: Black Writers, White Patrons, and the Harlem Renaissance.” Editing the Harlem Renaissance, edited by Ross Tangedal and Joshua Murray, Clemson University Press, 2021, pp. 45-62.

“‘With all your Book Learning’: Ignorance and Literacy in Go Set a Watchman.” Mockingbird Grows Up: Re-Reading Harper Lee Since Watchman, edited by Cheli Reutter and Jonathan S. Cullick. University of Tennessee Press, 2020, pp. 127-46.

“Against the Genteel: The Last Puritan as Modern Epic.” Studies in American Culture, vol. 42, no. 1, 2019, pp 28-46.

“Digital Double Consciousness: Teaching Passing in the Twenty-first Century.” Nella Larsen’s Passing at Ninety; South Atlantic Review, vol. 84, no. 2/3, 2019, pp. 261-80.

“Richard Wright and the Black Supernatural.” Conjure, Hoodoo and Voodoo in African-American Literature, edited by James Mellis, McFarland Press, 2019, pp. 131-48.

“‘Gone Country’: Literary Depictions of the New Woman in Rurality.” Representing Rural Women, edited by Whitney Womack Smith and Margaret Thomas Evans, Rowman and Littlefield, 2019, pp. 13-27.

 “Colony at the Crossroads: The ‘Translated’ Settlement of Texas under Stephen F. Austin.” The Vernaculars of Occupation: Settler Colonial Texts across Borders, edited by Yu-Ting Huang and Rebecca Weaver-Hightower, Routledge, 2018, pp. 69-83.

“Benjy as ‘Black’: The Embodiment of Eugenic Stereotypes in The Sound and the Fury.” South Atlantic Review, vol 83, no. 2, 2018, pp. 89-108.

“Fine Art on the Airwaves: Radio Drama and Modern(ist) Mass Culture.” Popular Modernisms: Then and Now, edited by Scott Ortolano, Bloomsbury Academic, 2017, pp. 63-78.

Reviews and Entries

“Claude McKay,” “Djuna Barnes,” and “Edna St. Vincent Millay.” The Encyclopedia of the Lost Generation: Life and Times of the Jazz Age. Rowman & Littlefield. Forthcoming.

“Transatlanticism.” Victorian Literature and Culture 46. 3/4 (2018): pp. 917-924.

Rev. of A Bloody and Barbarous God; The Metaphysics of Cormac McCarthy. South Central Review 35.2 (2018): pp. 142-145.

Rev. of These Are Our Demands. Review of Texas Books. Spring 2018.

Rev. of Imagining Sovereignty: Self-Determination in American Indian Law and Literature. American Indian Quarterly, vol. 41, no. 2, Spring 2017, pp. 195-98.

Rev. of The Intimacies of Four Continents. Women’s Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, vol. 45, no. 7, 2016, pp. 706-7.

“Stranger in a Strange Land.” Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, vol. 337, 2016, pp. 223-321.

Rev. of Writing Reconstruction. Arkansas Review vol. 47 no. 1, 2016, pp. 67-9.

“The Big Bear of Arkansas,” “The Kind Hawk,” and “The Star Maiden.” American Myths, Legends, and Tall Tales: An Encyclopedia of American Folklore. ABC-CLIO. May 2016. pp. 109-11; 573; 894.

Awards and Honors

2021 Summer Faculty Research Award, Lamar University, $3,000.
2019 Summer Faculty Research Award, Lamar University, $8,000.
Honorable Mention, TCU Graduate Student Fiction Award – “Eudora.”
Global Outlooks Institute Ambassador, 2016-17.
Doctoral Teaching Fellowship. TCU, 2016-2017.
Travel Grant. English Department and Graduate Studies TCU, 2012-2016.
Outstanding Service Award, Tri-Iota, 2015-16.
Graduate Student Travel Grant Award. Graduate Student Senate, TCU 2014-2016.
Instructional Development Grant. “Transatlantic Teaching, Scholarship, and Professional Networking.” TCU, $3600, co-writer.
Sherley Research Grant, $500. TCU English Department, 2015.
Lorraine Sherley Research Fellowship. TCU 2015-2016.
Tri-Iota National Honors Society, Women and Gender Studies.
1^st Place, Lawrence Owen Prize in Fiction Writing, 2005 & 2007.