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Present	Assistant Professor, Iowa State University ‐ Department of English
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English Language and Literature

Alumni Association Faculty Inspiration Award, Iowa State University (SP 20)
Faculty Professional Development Award, Iowa State University (AU 19)

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Futuristic Cars and Space Bicycles: Contesting the Road in American ...

English Books (2020)

Jeremy Withers

Given the extensive influence of the 'transport revolution' on the past two centuries (a time when trains, trams, omnibuses, bicycles, ...

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The War of the Wheels: H.G. Wells and the ...

English Books (2017)

Jeremy Withers

Amid apocalyptic invasions and time travel, one common machine continually appears in H. G. Wells’s works: the bicycle. From his ...

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Culture on Two Wheels: The Bicycle in Literature and Film

English Books (2016)

Jeremy Withers and Daniel P. Shea

Bicycles have more cultural identities than many realize, functioning not only as literal vehicles in a text but also as ...

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Peer-Reviewed Articles (9)

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Better to Move by Foot or Slidewalk: Post-Automobile Environments in ...

Extrapolation (2021)

Jeremy Withers

This essay focuses on Asimov’s The Caves of Steel and Clarke’s The City and the Stars, two works published during ...

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Introduction: The Ecologies of Mobility

ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment (2017)

Jeremy Withers

Environmentalism has almost always privileged what geographer Tim Cresswell refers to as a “sedentarist metaphysics.” Cresswell defines this perspective as ...

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Bicycles Across the Galaxy: Attacking Automobility in 1950s Science Fiction

Science Fiction Studies (2017)

Jeremy Withers

This essay focuses on several works of science fiction from the 1950s that function as counter-narratives to the hegemony of ...

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Medieval and Futuristic Hells: The Influence of Dante on Ellison ...

Studies in Medievalism XXVI (2017)

Jeremy Withers

Even though some scholars have identified important precursors to science fiction (hereafter abbreviated as sf) in premodern genres such as ...

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Bicycles, Tricycles, and Tripods: Late Victorian Cycling and Wells’s ...

The Wellsian (2013)

Jeremy Withers

As evident from several of H. G. Wells’s writings from the 1890s, most notably his novel The Wheels of Chance ...

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"A beest may al his lust fulfille”: Naturalizing Chivalric Violence ...

Rethinking Chaucerian Beasts (2012)

Jeremy Withers

From Nazi attempts at “naturalizing” the state of warfare to modern marketers’ penchant for associating products with the “purity” and ...

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The Social Construction of Nature and Oliver Stone's Natural ...

The Journal of Popular Culture (2012)

Jeremy Withers

Oliver Stone’s 1994 film Natural Born Killers was, upon its release, immediately revered and reviled by critics. This story of ...

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Keeping Pets and (Not) Eating Animals in Jonathan Safran Foer ...

Journal of Ecocriticism (2012)

Jeremy Withers

This article examines the role of animals, as well as of veganism, in Jonathan Safran Foer’s Extremely Loud and Incredibly ...

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Forests, Animals, and Ambushes in the Alliterative Morte Arthure

Journal of the Australian & New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2010)

Jeremy Withers

In the Alliterative Morte Arthure, the forest is often depicted as an ideal place for ambushing one's enemy. Such persistent ...

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