Eileen A. Joy Explained

Eileen A. Joy (a.k.a. Eileen A Fradenburg Joy) is a specialist in Old English literary studies^[1] and cultural studies^[2] and is the publisher and founding director of Punctum Books: spontaneous acts of scholarly combustion.^[3] She holds a B.A. in English from Virginia Commonwealth University (1984), an M.F.A. in Fiction from Virginia Commonwealth University (1992) and a Ph.D. in Medieval Literature^[4] and Intellectual History from University of Tennessee (2001) with a dissertation Beowulf and the Floating Wreck of History.^[5] She is the founder of the BABEL Working Group and is co-editor of postmedieval: a journal of medieval cultural studies.^{[6] [7]}

Research interests

Joy's research interests^[8] also span poetry and poetics, intellectual history, ethics, affects, embodiment, queer studies, object/thing studies,^[9] the ecological, post-humanisms, and open access scholarly communications.^[10]

Academic positions

• Associate Professor, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (August 2009 - August 2013)
• Assistant Professor, Southern Illinois University (August 2006 - July 2009) and Director of Graduate Studies (May 2007 - August 2009)
• Visiting Assistant Professor, Coastal Carolina University (August 2005 - August 2006)
• Assistant Professor, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (August 2003 - July 2005)
• Visiting Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina-Asheville (July 2002 - July 2003)
• Assistant Professor, Francis Marion University (August 2000 - July 2002)

Publications

• Joy, E.A. 2013, Weird Reading, Speculations IV: pp. 28–34
• Levi Bryant and Eileen A. Joy, Preface: Object/Ecology, O-Zone: A Journal of Object-Oriented Studies Issue 1 :: Object/Ecology :: 2014, ISSN 2326-8344
• Eileen A. Joy, A choir or cacophony? Sample sizes and quality of conveying participants’ voices in phenomenological research, with Theodore T Bartholomew, Ellice Kang and Jill Brown, Methodological Innovations May–August 2021: pp. 1–14
• Eileen A. Joy and Christine M. Neufeld, A Confession of Faith: Notes Toward a New Humanism Journal of Narrative Theory, Volume 37, Number 2, Summer 2007, pp. 161–190, Published by Eastern Michigan University

Notes and References

1. https://glasgowreviewofbooks.com/2013/05/07/in-the-para-academic-playground-an-interview-with-eileen-joy-co-director-of-punctum-books/
2. https://figureground.org/interview-with-eileen-a-joy/
3. https://punctumbooks.com/people/eileen-joy/
4. https://blogs.cofc.edu/babelworkinggroup/2012/10/18/radical-hope-for-medieval-and-early-modern-studies-an-interview-with-eileen-joy/
5. https://hcommons.org/members/eileenajoy/
6. https://medium.com/@skylerdepaoli/eileen-joy-our-fearless-open-access-leader-at-ucsb-55a2fc366fa9
7. https://thefunambulist.net/podcast/the-funambulist-podcast/eileen-joy-publishing-manifesto-the-medieval-archipelago
8. https://hcommons.org/members/eileenajoy/
9. Eileen A. Joy: Notes Toward a Speculative Realist Literary Criticism at Svenska Twitteruniversitetet, July 16, 2012
10. https://www.news.ucsb.edu/2018/018692/pressing-revolution