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Rick E. Joines

Title: Senior Lecturer

Department: English

College: College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences

Curriculum Vitae

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Education

  • PhD, University of Florida, 2001
    Major: English
    Dissertation: For Those with Ears to Hear: Emerson, Rhetoric, and Political Philosophy
  • MFA, Wichita State University, 1995
    Major: Creative Writing: Poetry Thesis:"Translation: Poems"
  • BA, Western Kentucky University, 1990
    Major: Religion and Philosophy, English minor

Current Scheduled Teaching

ENGL 2326.003American LiteratureSpring 2025
ENGL 1310.003First Year Writing ISpring 2025
ENGL 1310.010First Year Writing ISpring 2025
ENGL 1310.045First Year Writing ISpring 2025
ENGL 2326.002American LiteratureFall 2024 Syllabus
ENGL 1310.006First Year Writing IFall 2024 Syllabus
ENGL 1310.601First Year Writing IFall 2024 Syllabus
ENGL 1311.002Honors First Year Writing IFall 2024 Syllabus

Previous Scheduled Teaching

ENGL 2326.001American LiteratureSpring 2024 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 1310.006First Year Writing ISpring 2024 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 1310.010First Year Writing ISpring 2024 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 1311.001Honors First Year Writing ISpring 2024 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 2326.002American LiteratureFall 2023 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 1310.001First Year Writing IFall 2023 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 1310.006First Year Writing IFall 2023 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 1310.044First Year Writing IFall 2023 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 1310.003First Year Writing ISpring 2023 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 1310.006First Year Writing ISpring 2023 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 1310.023First Year Writing ISpring 2023 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 2341.001Forms of LiteratureSpring 2023 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 3830.001American Literature to 1870Fall 2022 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 1310.006First Year Writing IFall 2022 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 1310.023First Year Writing IFall 2022 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 1311.002Honors First Year Writing IFall 2022 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 1310.003First Year Writing ISpring 2022 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 1310.010First Year Writing ISpring 2022 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 2341.001Forms of LiteratureSpring 2022 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 1310.013First Year Writing IFall 2021 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 1310.022First Year Writing IFall 2021 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 1310.057First Year Writing IFall 2021 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 1310.008College Writing ISpring 2021 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 1310.014College Writing ISpring 2021 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 1310.018College Writing ISpring 2021 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 1310.022College Writing ISpring 2021 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 1310.003College Writing IFall 2020 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 1310.065College Writing IFall 2020 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 1310.073College Writing IFall 2020 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 1310.074College Writing IFall 2020 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 1320.006College Writing IISpring 2020 Syllabus
ENGL 1320.060College Writing IISpring 2020 Syllabus
ENGL 1320.064College Writing IISpring 2020 Syllabus
ENGL 1310.013College Writing IFall 2019 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 1310.019College Writing IFall 2019 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 1310.057College Writing IFall 2019 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 1320.050College Writing IISpring 2019 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 4951.723Honors College Capstone ThesisSpring 2019 Syllabus
ENGL 3000.004Introduction to Literary Analysis and Interpretation SkillsSpring 2019 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 3000.005Introduction to Literary Analysis and Interpretation SkillsSpring 2019 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 3000.006Introduction to Literary Analysis and Interpretation SkillsSpring 2019 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 4900.753Special ProblemsSpring 2019 Syllabus
ENGL 3000.004Introduction to Literary Analysis and Interpretation SkillsFall 2018 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 3000.007Introduction to Literary Analysis and Interpretation SkillsFall 2018 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 2210.006Survey of World Literatures from Antiquity to 1700Fall 2018 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 2210.009Survey of World Literatures from Antiquity to 1700Fall 2018 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 3840.003American Literature 1870 to the PresentSpring 2018 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 3000.004Introduction to Literary Analysis and Interpretation SkillsSpring 2018 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 3000.005Introduction to Literary Analysis and Interpretation SkillsSpring 2018 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 2210.009Survey of World Literatures from Antiquity to 1700Spring 2018 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 3840.002American Literature 1870 to the PresentFall 2017 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 3000.004Introduction to Literary Analysis and Interpretation SkillsFall 2017 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 3000.007Introduction to Literary Analysis and Interpretation SkillsFall 2017 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 2210.009Survey of World Literatures from Antiquity to 1700Fall 2017 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 1320.048College Writing IISpring 2017 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 1321.002Honors Composition IISpring 2017 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 2210.007Survey of World Literatures from Antiquity to 1700Spring 2017 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 2210.009Survey of World Literatures from Antiquity to 1700Spring 2017 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 3360.001Survey of Classical LiteratureFall 2016 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 2210.006Survey of World Literatures from Antiquity to 1700Fall 2016 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 2210.010Survey of World Literatures from Antiquity to 1700Fall 2016 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 2210.013Survey of World Literatures from Antiquity to 1700Fall 2016 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 3923.001American Jewish WritersSpring 2016 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 1320.047College Writing IISpring 2016 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 2210.005Survey of World Literatures from Antiquity to 1700Spring 2016 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 2210.007Survey of World Literatures from Antiquity to 1700Spring 2016 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 1310.019College Writing IFall 2015 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 1310.035College Writing IFall 2015 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 2220.004Survey of World Literatures from 1700 to the PresentFall 2015 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 2220.009Survey of World Literatures from 1700 to the PresentFall 2015 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 4160.001Advanced Expository WritingSummer 5W1 2015 Syllabus SPOT
ENGL 1310.005College Writing ISpring 2015 Syllabus
ENGL 1320.002College Writing IISpring 2015 Syllabus
ENGL 1320.024College Writing IISpring 2015 Syllabus
ENGL 2220.005Survey of World Literatures from 1700 to the PresentSpring 2015 Syllabus
ENGL 1310.014College Writing IFall 2014 Syllabus
ENGL 1310.038College Writing IFall 2014 Syllabus
ENGL 2210.007Survey of World Literatures from Antiquity to 1700Fall 2014 Syllabus
ENGL 2210.009Survey of World Literatures from Antiquity to 1700Fall 2014 Syllabus
ENGL 4160.001Advanced Expository WritingSummer 5W1 2014 Syllabus
ENGL 1320.012College Writing IISpring 2014 Syllabus
ENGL 1320.041College Writing IISpring 2014 Syllabus
ENGL 1320.058College Writing IISpring 2014 Syllabus
ENGL 3150.001Intermediate Creative Writing: PoetrySpring 2014 Syllabus
ENGL 2500.002Introduction to Literary Analysis and Interpretation SkillsFall 2013 Syllabus
ENGL 2500.005Introduction to Literary Analysis and Interpretation SkillsFall 2013 Syllabus
ENGL 2210.006Masterpieces of world literature from the Ancients Through the Early RenaissanceFall 2013 Syllabus
ENGL 2210.012Masterpieces of world literature from the Ancients Through the Early RenaissanceFall 2013 Syllabus
ENGL 4160.001Advanced Expository WritingSummer 5W1 2013 Syllabus
ENGL 1320.029College Writing IISpring 2013
ENGL 1320.061College Writing IISpring 2013
ENGL 4951.723Honors College Capstone ThesisSpring 2013
ENGL 3150.002Intermediate Creative Writing: PoetrySpring 2013
ENGL 2220.006Masterpieces of world literature since the RenaissanceSpring 2013
ENGL 1310.015College Writing IFall 2012
ENGL 1310.063College Writing IFall 2012
ENGL 2500.002Introduction to Literary Analysis and Interpretation SkillsFall 2012
ENGL 2500.005Introduction to Literary Analysis and Interpretation SkillsFall 2012
ENGL 3360.001Survey of Classical LiteratureSummer 5W1 2012
ENGL 4951.719Honors College Capstone ThesisSpring 2012
ENGL 3150.001Intermediate Creative Writing: PoetrySpring 2012
ENGL 2210.001Masterpieces of world literature from the Ancients Through the Early RenaissanceSpring 2012
ENGL 2210.004Masterpieces of world literature from the Ancients Through the Early RenaissanceSpring 2012
ENGL 2210.009Masterpieces of world literature from the Ancients Through the Early RenaissanceSpring 2012
ENGL 2210.002Masterpieces of world literature from the Ancients Through the Early RenaissanceFall 2011
ENGL 2210.003Masterpieces of world literature from the Ancients Through the Early RenaissanceFall 2011
ENGL 2211.001Masterpieces of world literature from the Ancients Through the Early RenaissanceFall 2011
ENGL 3360.002Survey of Classical LiteratureFall 2011
ENGL 3360.001Survey of Classical LiteratureSummer 5W1 2011
ENGL 4160.002Advanced Expository WritingSpring 2011
ENGL 4160.003Advanced Expository WritingSpring 2011
ENGL 3150.003Intermediate Creative Writing: PoetrySpring 2011
ENGL 3360.001Survey of Classical LiteratureSpring 2011
ENGL 1310.007College Writing IFall 2010
ENGL 1310.070College Writing IFall 2010
ENGL 3830.002Studies in American Literature to 1870Fall 2010
ENGL 3360.001Survey of Classical LiteratureFall 2010
ENGL 3360.001Survey of Classical LiteratureSummer 5W1 2010
ENGL 1320.040College Writing IISpring 2010
ENGL 1320.044College Writing IISpring 2010
ENGL 3150.002Intermediate Creative Writing: PoetrySpring 2010
ENGL 3360.001Survey of Classical LiteratureSpring 2010
ENGL 1310.022College Writing IFall 2009
ENGL 1310.049College Writing IFall 2009
ENGL 2211.001Masterpieces of world literature from the Ancients Through the Early RenaissanceFall 2009
ENGL 3360.002Survey of Classical LiteratureFall 2009
ENGL 4160.001Advanced Expository WritingSummer 5W1 2009
ENGL 4160.002Advanced Expository WritingSpring 2009
ENGL 1320.014College Writing IISpring 2009
ENGL 1320.024College Writing IISpring 2009
ENGL 3360.001Survey of Classical LiteratureSpring 2009
ENGL 1310.014College Writing IFall 2008
ENGL 1310.043College Writing IFall 2008
ENGL 3150.004Intermediate Creative Writing: PoetryFall 2008
ENGL 3360.001Survey of Classical LiteratureFall 2008
ENGL 4430.001ShakespeareSummer 5W1 2008
ENGL 1320.001College Writing IISpring 2008
ENGL 1320.024College Writing IISpring 2008
ENGL 1320.053College Writing IISpring 2008
ENGL 3360.001Survey of Classical LiteratureSpring 2008
ENGL 1310.002College Writing IFall 2007
ENGL 1310.006College Writing IFall 2007
ENGL 1310.036College Writing IFall 2007
ENGL 2211.001Masterpieces of world literature from the Ancients Through the Early RenaissanceFall 2007

Published Intellectual Contributions

    Book

  • Joines, R.E. (2011). Paradeisos: A Poetry Chapbook. Anaphora Press.
  • Book Chapter

  • Joines, R.E. (2017). "Turner Cassity,". Mississippi Encyclopedia. University of Mississippi Press.
  • Joines, R.E. (2017). Yvor Winters. Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism.
  • Joines, R.E., Boyes, M., Scheckner, P. (2008). "Seniors' Last Hour (ALCOA Aluminum, North Plant, Alcoa, TN),". The Way We Work: Contemporary Writings from the American Workplace.. Vanderbilt University Press.
  • Burt Kimmelman, ed.. (2005). "Thom Gunn," in A Companion to 20th Century American Poetry.
  • Burt Kimmelman, ed.. (2005). "Timothy Steele" in A Companion to 20th Century American Poetry.
  • Joines, R.E., Kimmelman, B. (2005). J. V. Cunningham. A Companion to 20th Century American Poetry. NY, Facts on File, Inc.
  • Book Review

  • Joines, R.E. (2023). Margaret H. Freeman, The Poem as Icon: A Study in Aesthetic Meaning. The Wallace Stevens Journal. 47 (2) 2.
  • Joines, R.E. (2018). Mr. Stevens' Secretary. The Wallace Stevens Journal.
  • Joines, R.E. (2015). Of Man and Beast: on Mark Wunderlich’s The Earth Avails. Contemporary Poetry Review. Contemporary Poetry Review. http://www.cprw.com/of-man-beast-rick-joines-reviews-mark-wunderlich
  • Joines, R.E. (2014). Review of Rose McLarney, Its Day Being Gone [poetry]. The Rumpus. http://therumpus.net/2014/07/its-day-being-gone-by-rose-mclarney/
  • Joines, R.E. (2014). The Glam and the Gloom: On Cynthia Cruz's Wunderkammer. The Critical Flame.
  • Joines, R.E. (2013). Review of Frederick Seidel, Nice Weather [poetry]. American Literary Review. http://joinesreviews.wordpress.com/2013/02/05/frederick-seidels-nice-weather/
  • Joines, R.E. (2012). Review of Charles Wright's Bye-and-Bye: Selected Late Poems. American Literary Review. http://joinesreviews.wordpress.com/2012/10/22/charles-wright/
  • Joines, R.E. (2011). Poetry Review: Ada Limon's Sharks in the River and Jennifer Boyden's The Mouths of Grazing Things. American Literary Review. http://joinesreviews.wordpress.com/2011/02/04/limon-and-boyden/
  • RJ. (2011). Review of Montaigne after Theory/Theory after Montaigne.. http://joinesreviews.wordpress.com/2011/07/19/montaigne-after-theorytheory-after-montaigne/
  • Rick Joines. (2011). The Gravity and Levity of Kay Ryan Contemporary Poetry Review Related Links: http://www.cprw.com/rick-joines-the-gravity-and-levity-of-kay-ryan. http://http://www.cprw.com/rick-joines-the-gravity-and-levity-of-kay-ryan
  • Joines, R.E. (2011). Review of Close Calls with Nonsense, literary criticism by Stephen Burt. Southern Humanities Review. http://joinesreviews.wordpress.com/2011/05/01/close-calls-with-nonsense/
  • Joines, R.E. (2010). Poetry Review of The Hayflick Limit, poems by Matthew Tierney. 189-195. American Literary Review. http://joinesreviews.wordpress.com/2010/03/10/the-hayflick-limit/
  • Joines, R.E. (2009). Review of Dear Apocalypse, poems by K. A. Hays. 122-130. American Literary Review. http://joinesreviews.wordpress.com/2010/01/27/dear-apocalypse/
  • Joines, R.E. (2006). Review of Collected Works of Erasmus, Vol. 35: Adages III iv 1 to IV ii 100,. Bryn Mawr Classical Review. http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2006/2006-06-06.html
  • Joines, R.E. (2006). Review of Lichtenberg and the Little Flower Girl. Southern Humanities Review. http://joinesreviews.wordpress.com/2010/01/17/gert-hofmanns-lichtenberg/
  • Joines, R.E. (2006). Review of Minsk, by Lavinia Greenlaw, Ashes for Breakfast: Selected Poems, by Durs Grünbein, Full Speed Through the Morning Dark, by Matthew Tierney, and The Displaced of Capital, by Anne Winters. 195-206. Southern Humanities Review. http://joinesreviews.wordpress.com/2010/01/25/tierney-winters-greenlaw-grunbein/
  • Joines, R.E. (2005). Review of A Journey into Platonic Politics: Plato's Laws. Bryn Mawr Classical Review. http://joinesreviews.wordpress.com/2005/07/11/a-journey-into-platonic-politics/
  • Joines, R.E. (2005). Review of Horace (Ancients in Action Series). Bryn Mawr Classical Review. http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2005/2005-07-82.html
  • Joines, R.E. (2001). Review of Nietzsche's Corps/e: Aesthetics, Politics, Prophecy, or, the Spectacular Technoculture of Everyday Life, by Geoff Waite. 13 (1) 111-15. Rethinking Marxism. http://joinesreviews.wordpress.com/2005/07/11/a-journey-into-platonic-politics/
  • Critical Review

  • Joines, R.E. (2017). The Free Jazz Collective -- Reviews of 14 free jazz albums and 1 book. freejazzblog.org
  • Joines, R.E. (2017). Dickey / Maneri / Shipp. Free Jazz Collective. http://www.freejazzblog.org/
  • Joines, R.E. The Wilderness, by Midday Veil. The Rumpus. The Rumpus -- Sound Takes. http://therumpus.net/
  • Journal Article

  • Joines, R. (2023). The Opposable Thumb at the End of the Imagination. Erraticus: A Pragmatic Approach to Ideas. https://erraticus.co/2023/08/17/the-opposable-thumb-at-the-end-of-the-imagination/
  • Joines, R. (2023). On the Something There Is. Erraticus: A Pragmatic Approach to Ideas. maybe. https://erraticus.co/2023/04/17/on-the-something-there-is/
  • Joines, R.E. (2000). "Emerson's Proleptic Eloquence,". Nineteenth-Century Prose. http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Emerson%27s+proleptic+eloquence.-a0188997942
  • Joines, R.E. (1999). Contretemps: Derrida’s Ante & the Call of Marxist Political Philosophy. Cultural Logic. http://clogic.eserver.org/3-1&2/joines.html
  • Personal Essay

  • Joines, R.E. (2022). Snow Day. Ohio, https://www.riverteethjournal.com/blog/2022/12/26/snow-day
  • Joines, R. (2020). A Figure Like Your Father's. 3Elements Literary Review. (26) http://3elementsreview.com/
  • Poem

  • Joines, R.E. (2023). Regards to Mrs. Church. The Wallace Stevens Journal. (47, 2) 1. https://wallacestevens.com/
  • Joines, R.E. (2023). Remember Me to Mrs. Church. The Wallace Stevens Journal. 47 (2) 1. https://wallacestevens.com/
  • Joines, R.E. (2017). Against Self-Expression. The Southern Poetry Anthology: Volume VIII, Texas.
  • Joines, R.E. (2017). Once More from the Hymnal. The Southern Poetry Anthology: Volume VIII, Texas.
  • Joines, R.E. (2017). Pragmatic. The Southern Poetry Anthology: Volume VIII, Texas.
  • Joines, R.E. (2016). No Feast Without a Slaughter. The New South. New South. (43) http://www.uab.edu/cas/englishpublications/birmingham-poetry-review
  • Joines, R.E. Against Self-Expression. The Southern Poetry Anthology. VIII Texas, Texas A&M University Press. http://www.southern-poetry-anthology.com/
  • Joines, R.E. Once More from the Hymnal. The Southern Poetry Anthology. VIII Texas, Texas A&M University Press. http://www.southern-poetry-anthology.com/
  • Joines, R.E. Pragmatic. The Southern Poetry Anthology. VIII Texas, Texas A&M University Press. http://www.southern-poetry-anthology.com/
  • Joines, R.E. The Incorrupt Hand of the Saint. Birmingham Poetry Review. Dappled Things. http://dappledthings.org/
  • Joines, R.E. (2015). Alcoa. Still: the Journal.
  • Joines, R.E. (2015). Before the Grave of Niketas the Goth. Dappled Things. (17) Still: The Journal. http://www.stilljournal.net/rick-joines-poetry.php
  • Joines, R.E. (2014). "South". Appalachian Heritage. Appalachian Heritage. http://pub.berea.edu/appalachian-heritage/
  • Rick Joines. (2006). Seniors'Last Hour,".
  • Joines, R.E. (2003). Poems: "Boxed Idiot Sun" and "Like Language,". Animus.
  • Joines, R.E. (1995). "Translation,". Quarterly West.
  • Joines, R.E. (1989). Two haiku in the Mainichi Daily News. http://mainichi.jp/english/english/features/haiku/
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    • The course as a whole was
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    • Do you expect your grade in this course to be
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