Contact: zuern@hawaii.edu
Office hours:MF 12:00–5:00
I am currently the department's Graduate Director.
Publications
My recent publications include “Reading Digital Lives Generously" (co-authored with Laurie McNeill) in Research Methods for Auto/Biography Studies (2019) and “Remedial Materialism: What Can Comparative Literature and Electronic Literature Learn from Each Other?” in Comparative Literature (2018).
Areas of Interest
life writing, fiction, narrative studies, 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
- MA Comparative Literature, University of Texas–Austin
- MA English, University of Texas–Austin
- BA English, Moorhead State University
Courses
Fall Semester 2023
- ENG-320: Introduction to English Studies
Spring Semester 2023
- ENG-321: Backgrounds of Western Literature
Fall Semester 2022
- ENG-464: Studies: Life Writing
Spring Semester 2022
- ENG-326: Literatures of the World
Fall Semester 2021
- ENG-420: Studies in Literature and Culture: Literature and the Public Good