Cameron Wilson, Ph.D.
  • Associate Professor

  • School of the Humanities & the Arts

  • Rocklin, CA

Biography:

Education:

  • Ph.D. English: Literature of the Americas, Trinity College, Dublin

  • M.A. English: Literary Studies, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga

  • B.A. English, Covenant College

Publications/Work:

Academic Publications:

  • “Third-person Ventriloquism”: Microdialogues and Polyphony in George Saunders’s ‘Victory Lap,’" George Saunders: Critical Essays, American Literature Readings in the 21st Century (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017)

  • “The Other in the Self: A Hermeneutics of Otherness in Ray Bradbury’s ‘The Traveller,'' Exploring the Horror of Supernatural Fiction: Ray Bradbury’s Elliott Family (Routledge, 2020)

  • “Doppelgangers and Sentient Prosthesis: Visualizing the Horrors of Brian Evenson,” Cosmic Horror Monthly, July 2024.

Conference Papers and Presentations:

  • "Monstrous Bodies: Contemporary Body Horror, Metaphor and Otherness," Pacific Ancient and Modern Languages, Portland, Oregon. October 2023.

  • "Unlocking the Power of Natural Language Processing (NLP) in the Humanities," Jessup Faculty Research Colloquium, Rocklin, CA. November 2023.

  • “The Ethical Demands of the Grotesque Body in Carmen Maria Machado’s Her Body and Other Parties,” North East MLA, Niagara Falls, New York. March 2023.

  • “Ultimate Concerns and Passionate Convictions: Walker Percy’s Religious Atheists,” Sacred Literature, Secular Religion, Le Moyne University, Syracuse, New York. October 2015

  • “Directives and Dialogism: A Bakhtinian Reading of George Saunders’s ‘Victory Lap,''' International Conference on the Short Story in English, Vienna, Austria. July 2014

  • “The Search and the Postsecular in the Novels of Walker Percy,” Western Regional Conference on Christianity and Literature, Westmont College, Santa Barbara, CA. May 2014

  • “The Dialectic of Belief: Participation and Uncertainty in Walker Percy’s Lost in the Cosmos,” Walker Percy Conference, Loyola University, New Orleans, LA. October 2013

Miscellaneous Publications: