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Dr. Joseph Lease
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| Office Hours: | By appointment in person or on Teams. Monday and Wednesday-Friday: Macon campus Tuesday: Cochran campus |
| Courses: | ENGL 1102_27 (online), 2nd session |
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| Education: | PhD, English, University of Georgia MAT, Secondary English, Duke University BA, English, University of Arkansas |
| Professional Experience: | Work History: Middle Georgia State University, Chair and Professor of English: 2025 – Present Wesleyan College, Professor of English: 2024 – 2025 Wesleyan College, Associate Professor of English: 2018 – 2024 Wesleyan College, Assistant Professor of English: 2012 – 2018 University of Georgia, Research Fellow and Teaching Assistant: 2006 – 2012 Durham Technical Community College, Adjunct Instructor of Writing: 2005 – 2006 Jordan High School, English Teacher: 2003 – 2005 University of Arkansas, Upward Bound Academic Counselor: 2000 – 2002 Administrative and Leadership Experience: English Department Chair, Middle Georgia State University: 2025 – Present Director of Honors, Wesleyan College: 2023 – 2025 English Department Chair, Wesleyan College: 2019 – 2021 and 2023 – 2025 Georgia Organization for Student Success, Vice President: 2021 – 2023 General Education Committee Chair, Wesleyan College: 2019 – 2021 Promotion and Tenure Committee, Elected Member, Wesleyan College: 2018 – 2021 Findlay Scholarship Coordinator, Wesleyan College: 2018 – 2021 Interim Division Chair for Humanities, Wesleyan College: Spring 2018 Academic Council Vice Chair, Wesleyan College: Spring 2018 Director of Writing, Wesleyan College: 2017 – 18 Sustainability Committee Chair, Wesleyan College: 2017 – 2018 WIS 102 FYE Course Coordinator, Wesleyan College: 2015 – 2016 Faculty Council Representative for Humanities, Wesleyan College: 2013 – 2015 |
| Publications: | Climate Consciousness and Environmental Activism in Composition: Writing to Save the World, editor and contributor, Lexington Books’ Ecocritical Theory and Practice Series, 2020. “Design Thinking and Sustainability Problem Solving: Reconceptualizing a First-Year Writing-Intensive Seminar,” co-authored with Matthew R. Martin and Joanne Chu, in Climate Consciousness, Lexington Books, 2020. “Introduction: Now More than Ever,” In Climate Consciousness, Lexington Books, 2020. “‘Carrying the Fire’: Metaphors of Destruction and Hope in the Apocalyptic Visions of Conrad and McCarthy,” Critical Insights: Heart of Darkness, edited by Robert C. Evans, 2019. Review of Apocalyptic Futures: Marked Bodies and the Violence of the Text in Kafka, Conrad, and Coetzee, Joseph Conrad Today, Spring 2015. Review of SAMLA panel “Conrad and Technology,” Joseph Conrad Today, Fall 2013. |
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