Contact: zuern@hawaii.edu
Office hours:W 12:00–3:00
Department Chair
Co-Editor, Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly.
Series Co-Editor, New Directions in Life Narrative, Bloomsbury Publishing
Publications
Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals
“Life Writing at the Terminus: Glacier Memoirs and Planetary Relationality.” European Journal of Life Writing, vol. 13, 2024, pp. 1-27.
“A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to This Issue: Comedy and Life Narrative.” Comic Lives, special issue of a/b: Auto/Biography Studies, vol. 37, no. 2, 2022, pp. 225-42. Coauthored with Laurie McNeill (50%),
“Remedial Materialism: What Can Comparative Literature and Electronic Literature Learn from Each Other?” Comparative Literature, vol. 70, no. 3, 2018, pp. 295-316.
Chapters in Books
“Collection, Connection, Translation, Comparison: The Provocations of Life Writing as World Literature.” Life Writing as World Literature, edited by Helga Lenart-Cheng and Ioana Luca, Bloomsbury (forthcoming 2024).
“Reading Digital Lives Generously.” Co-authored with Laurie McNeill, Research Methods for Auto/Biography Studies, edited by Kate Douglas and Ashley Barnwell, Routledge, 2019, pp. 132-39.
Exhibited Work
Ask Me for the Moon: Working Nights in Waikīkī. Selected for “After Flash” exhibition at the Electronic Literature Organization Annual Conference, March–May 2021, https://the-next.eliterature.org/exhibition/afterflash/. Accessed 1 Sept. 2024.
Areas of Interest
life writing, fiction, literary theory, comparative literature, digital literature
Awards
- Board of Regents' Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2012
- Presidential/Chancellor's Citation for Meritorious Teaching, 2005
Education
- PhD Comparative Literature, University of Texas–Austin, 1995
- MA Comparative Literature, University of Texas–Austin, 1993
- MA English, University of Texas–Austin, 1991
- BA English, Minnesota State University–Moorhead, 1986
Courses
Spring Semester 2025
- ENG-321: Backgrounds of Western Literature
Fall Semester 2025
- ENG-365: Fiction
Fall Semester 2024
- ENG-625B/E: Theories and Methods of Literary Studies / Theories in Cultural Studies
Spring Semester 2024
- ENG-320: Introduction to English Studies
Fall Semester 2023
- ENG-320: Introduction to English Studies