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Profile
Chad Weidner comes from the grasslands of Nebraska in the United States. A Flemish Community Fellow, he is a Ph.D. candidate in literature at Ghent University. He holds a Master of Arts in English from the University of Nebraska at Kearney. He got his B.A. in English from the University of Nebraska. Chad previously taught in the graduate English program at Bremen University, Germany, and in the English Department at the University of Nebraska Kearney. He enjoys reading and thinking about the connections between humans and the environment, and camping in the mountains of North America.
Professional Memberships
Awards
- Honorary Fellow of the Belgian-American Educational Foundation
- Flemish Community Fellow
Teaching Tracks at RA
- English
- Cultural Studies
- Ecocritical Theory
- American Literature
- The Beat Generation
Publications
- "Does Ecocriticism Really Matter? Exploring the Relevance of Green Cultural Studies." BAS British and American Studies Journal XV (2009): 189-199. Print.
- "'The Great God Pan is Dead!' The Ecological Elegy of William Burroughs' Ghost of Chance" BAS British and American Studies Journal XIV (2008): 195-205. Print.
- "Did Thomas Jefferson Own a Gun? William Burroughs and the American Agrarian Link" The International Journal of the Humanities 5.2 (2007): 77-82. Print.
- with Karolien Walravens. "Native Dyes: Race and Politics in the Jacobean Masque." Ben Jonson: A Critical Study. Ed. T. Joseph. New Delhi: Anmol, 2002. 219-234. Print.
Chad has had poems and short stories published in journals and magazines across the United States and Canada by the Camel Press, the Chaffin Journal, Enigma, Green’s Magazine, Illya’s Honey, the Plains Song Review, Poetry Motel, San Diego Writers’ Monthly, the Salt Fork Review, and Wavelength.
Service
- Board of Directors, Middelburg Center for Transatlantic Studies
- Faculty sponsor of UNK-RA Exchange Program
- ACC 260 English for Academic Purposes
- A&H 243 Film in Context
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