Casey Clabough, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of English
Lynchburg College
Carnegie 224
434.544.8732
clabough@lynchburg.edu
Experience
2001-present, Lynchburg College
Education
Ph.D. and M.A., English
University of South Carolina
B.A., English
The College of William and Mary
Information on Courses Taught
Undergraduate
American Literature (all periods)
African-American Literature
Appalachian Literature
Creative Nonfiction (Intermediate & Advanced)
Introduction to Creative Writing
Literature and Culture
Literary Theory
English Senior Seminar/Capstone Course
Southern Literature
World Literature
Graduate
Creative Nonfiction
Figures in Literature
Literary Theory
Narrative Prose
Principles of Editing
Principles of Literary Scholarship
Seminar in Fiction
Travel Writing
Virginia Writers
Professional/Research Interests
Books
Creative Nonfiction
The Warrior's Path: Reflections Along an Ancient Route
Novel
Confederado: A Novel of the Americas
(Forthcoming)
Scholarly
Inhabiting Contemporary Southern and Appalachian Literature: Region and Place in the 21st Century
(Forthcoming)
Elements: The Novels of James Dickey
Experimentation and Versatility: The Early Novels and Short Fiction of Fred Chappell
The Art of the Magic Striptease: The Literary Layers of George Garrett
Gayl Jones: The Language of Voice and Freedom in Her Writings
Selected Essays in Periodicals and Books
"A Father's Son: George Garrett and the Art of Dying"
(Sewanee Review 120.1 (Winter 2012))
"Willed into Being: The Fiction of Mark Powell"
(Appalachian Heritage (Winter 2012))
"Writing One's Immortality: James Dickey's Reputation as a Southern Writer"
(Chapter in The Way We Read James Dickey (University of South Carolina Press, 2009): 25-34)
"Four Recent Novels of the Past Far and Near "
(Sewanee Review 116.1 (Winter 2008): 132-139)
"Toward Feminine Mythopoetic Visions: The Poetry of Gayl Jones"
(African American Review 41.1 (Spring 2007): 99-114); rpt. in Contemporary Literary Criticism, Volume 270 (Thomson/Gale, 2009)
"The Imagined South"
(Sewanee Review 115.2 (Spring 2007): 301-306)
"The Truths of William Hoffman's Fiction, New and Old"
(Shenandoah 57.1 (Spring 2007): 92-100)
"'Out of Space, Out of Time': The Virginia Novels of Julian Green"
(Hollins Critic 43.5 (December 2006): 1-16)
"'Toward an All-Inclusive Structure': The Early Fiction of Gayl Jones"
(Callaloo 29.2 (Spring 2006): 634-657)
"George Garrett's South: A Literary Image"
(Virginia Quarterly Review 82.2 (Spring 2006): 284-296)
"Speaking the Grotesque: The Short Fiction of Gayl Jones"
(Southern Literary Journal 38.2 (Spring 2006): 74-96)
"Afrocentric Recolonizations: Gayl Jones's 1990s Fiction"
(Contemporary Literature 46.2 (Summer 2005): 243-274)
"Appropriations of History, Gothicism, and Cthulhu: Fred Chappell's Dagon"
(Mosaic: A Journal of the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature 36.3 (September 2003): 37-54)
"Cwmrhydyceirw and the Art of Resistant Otherness: The Everyday Spaces and Consumer Practices of Jim Dixon in Kinglsey Amis's Lucky Jim" (Partial Answers, Special Issue: "Literature and the Ideas of Space" 1.2 (June 2003): 111-123)
Selected Creative Nonfiction in Periodicals and Anthologies
"Satyr," 2011 winner of the Emma Bell Miles Prize in the Essay
(Still 8 (February 2012))
"The Skeleton Woman"
(Creative Nonfiction 42 (Summer 2011): 48-58)
"Witches of Virginia"
(Dark Deeds in History, edited by Dorothy Davies (Pill Hill, 2011))
"The Men Beyond the Fields"
(Yale Journal for Humanities in Medicine (2011))
"Home Court Advantage"
(Stymie: A Journal of Sport and Literature 3.1 (Spring/Summer 2010): 46-63)
"Auswanderung"
(ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 15.2 (Summer 2008): 211-228)
"How Many Leaves Has the River Borne Away?"
(Rhizomes, Special Issue: Drifts and Drifting 13 (Fall 2006)
"Athowominee, The Warrior Path-In Bristol"
(South Atlantic Itineraries)
Selected Fiction in Periodicals and Anthologies
"The Succubus and I: A True Romance of the Twenty-first Century"
(Blackbird 9.2 (Fall 2010))
"Gold Thong"
(Danse Macabre 36 (2010); rpt. in Rooms without a View: Life in the Basement of the Corporate Academy, edited by Mark Epstein and Rita Gagliano (2012))
"The Shadow Over Lynchburg, or The Case of Dr. Harry Felwealth"
(After Dark: A Collection of Haunting Tales (Diversion, 2012))
Editorial Work
Literature Editor, Encyclopedia Virginia, Virginia Foundation for the Humanities (2006-present)
General Editor, James Dickey Review (2010-present)
Interviews
Interviewed by Mimi Ferebee (Red Ochre Lit News (February 2011))
Interviewed by Duotrope's Digest (Duotrope's Digest (25 August 2010))
Fellowships
Institute for Southern Studies, University of South Carolina
Virginia Foundation for the Humanities
Harrison Institute, University of Virginia
Virginia Foundation for Independent Colleges (Mednick)
