Dr. Jason Huddleston

Dr. Jason T. Huddleston

Chair and Associate Professor,
Department of Communications
English, Literature

Office: 306 Lee Roberson Center
Office Phone: 423-493-4157
Email: huddlej@tntemple.edu

  

Education

  • Ph.D., English (Literature), University of Texas at Arlington (2004)
  • M.A., English, Tennessee State University (1997)
  • B.A., English, Southwest Texas State University (1992)
  

Academic Experience

  • Tennessee Temple University -- Chair and Associate Professor, Department of Communications (2006 - Present)
  • Lee University -- Adjunct Professor, Department of English (2012)
  • University of Tennessee, Chattanooga -- Adjunct Professor, Department of English (2007 – 2011)
  • Navarro College -- Assistant Professor, Department of English (1999 – 2006)
  • Tennessee State University -- Assistant Professor, Department of Languages, Literature, and Philosophy (1998 – 1999)
  • Nashville State Tech -- Assistant Professor, Department of English (1997-1998)
  

Teaching Specializations

  • Contemporary American and British media and pop culture (with emphasis on film and television)
  • Masculinities (the American and British novel and film)
  • Modern / contemporary American and British gothic
  • Existentialism (European short story, novel, and film)
  • Nineteenth- / twentieth-century "monster" fiction (short story, novel, and film)
  

Professional Experience

  • Tennessee Temple University -- Chair and Associate Professor, Department of Communications (2006 - Present)
  • Chattanooga State Community College -- Adjunct Professor, Department of English (2011 and 2013)
  • Lee University -- Adjunct Professor, Department of English (2012)
  • University of Tennessee, Chattanooga -- Adjunct Professor, Department of English (2007 – 2011)
  • Navarro College -- Assistant Professor, Department of English (1999 – 2006)
  

Membership in Academic Organizations

  • Tennessee Philological Association (Member)
  • MLA (Member)
  • Sigma Tau Delta (International English Honors Society)(Sponsor)
  

Community Outreach

  • Live monthly performances of original music -- Cadence Coffee Company (Chattanooga, TN)
  

Publications & Presentations

  • Published "Unmasking the Monster: Hiding and Revealing Male Sexuality in John Carpenter's
    Halloween" (article) – JVL: The Journal of Visual Literacy (Autumn 2005)
  • Published "Beauties and Beasts: Victorian Homosexuality in Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde"; linked online through Richard Drury at the University of Bergamo (Italy); Available: http://www.geocities.com/mere_hud/homohyde.html (SP 01)
  • Published "Shedding Skins: N.Scott Momaday's ‘Rings of Bone' and the New Generation of American Indian Writers" (article) – Modern American Poetry: An Online Journal and Multimedia Companion to Anthology of Modern American Poetry; Oxford UP. Available: http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/ (FA 00)
  • Presented at PAC Conference: "‘Trouble in These Waters': Liminal Masculinity and Radical Feminism in Spielberg's Jaws and Szwarc's Jaws 2" (SP 13)
  • Presented at MPCA Conference: "Sketching the Savage: Melville's Queequeg and the Physiognomical Profiling of the Nineteenth-Century American Indian" (FA 12)
  • Presented at Tennessee Philological Association: "Mortgages, Monsters, and Men: Masculine Liberation in Kubrick's The Shining and Rosenberg's The Amityville Horror" (SP 07)
  • Dissertation defense: The Dialectic of Self: an Existential Reading of Identity in Selected Contemporary American Indian Literatures (November 10, 2004; the University of Texas at Arlington)
  • Presented at NANAS Conference, Houston, TX: "The Dialectic of Self: An Existential Reading of Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony" (SP 01)
  • Presented at CHCASW Conference, Sante Fe, NM: "Dark Night at Carmel: An Existential Reading of N. Scott Momaday's ‘Before an Old Painting of the Crucifixion'" (FA 00)
  • Presented at Georgias Conference, Dallas: "Roethke's Dark Night of the Soul" Published article, "Shedding Skins: N.Scott Momaday's ‘Rings of Bone' and the New Generation of American Indian Writers" Available: http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/ (SP 00)