Christopher Douglas
Assistant Professor
(he/him/his)
203 Stone Center
ccdouglas@jsu.edu
Dr. Douglas, originally from Illinois, came to JSU in the fall of 2019 after working as an Instructor of English at the University of Alabama from 2016-2019. He has a Ph.D. in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century transatlantic literature. Dr. Douglas taught English as a Foreign Language at Wada Jr. High School in Minamiboso City, Chiba Prefecture, Japan before beginning his graduate studies in America. His dissertation work is on the moral agency of it-narratives, stories narrated by non-humans (animals, objects, and the occasional ghost), in eighteenth and nineteenth century literature. He has published on it-narratives in ESQ and JNT and has published a pandemic teaching reflection in Digital Defoe and pandemic-informed reading in the Nathaniel Hawthorne Review. Dr. Douglas also has a forthcoming book chapter on 19th-century children’s it-narratives in Animal Satire (Palgrave MacMillan) and has selections in the forthcoming Cambridge Guide to the Eighteenth-Century Novel, 1660-1820. A co-edited collection of scholarly essays, “I’m Just a Comic Book Boy”: Essays on the Intersection of Comics and Punk, was published by McFarland & Co, in 2019. While he is not teaching, Dr. Douglas enjoys spending time with his rescue dog, and he considers himself an amateur baker and powerlifter.
Courses Taught:
- EH 101 English Composition I
- EH 102 English Composition II
- EH 104 Honors English Composition II
- EH 141 Oral Communication
- EH 203 Survey of English Literature I
- EH 322 Technical Writing
- EH 326 Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature
- EH 406 Shakespeare
- EH 411 Eighteenth-Century Literature
- EH 510 The Eighteenth-Century Novel
- EH 525 Major Authors Seminar: The Gothic Novel
- EH 536 Teaching College Literature: The English Survey
Education
- Ph.D. in English from Southern Illinois University Carbondale in 2016
- M.A. in English from Southern Illinois University Carbondale in 2011
- B.A. in English Secondary Education from Bradley University in 2005
Other Responsibilities
- Jacksonville State University Curriculum Review Committee
- College of Arts and Humanities Curriculum Review Committee
- Chair, English Department Assessment Committee
- Department of English Curriculum Review Committee
- Co-chair, Department of English Reading Series Committee
- Department of English Service Evaluation Committee
- JSU Civic Chorale