Chad Weidner, M.A. Theater, Film and Media P.O. Box 94 NL-4330 AB Middelburg Office hours: by appointment Tel. 0118-655500 / fax 0118-655508 E-mail:

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 an MA in English from the University of Nebraska Graduate College.  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

• Association for the Study of Literature and Environment

• Beat Studies Association

Awards

• Honorary Fellow of the Belgian-American Educational Foundation
• Flemish Community Fellow
• Bayreuth University (Germany) Visiting Fellowship

Teaching Areas at RA

• English
• Theatre and Media Studies

Research Interests

• Environmental Criticism
• 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.

Creative Publications

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 Nebraska-RA Exchange Program
  

Courses

• ACC 260 English for Academic Purposes
• A&H 243 Film in Context