
Degrees
2022, MA English, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
2016, BA Religious Studies, Wingate University
Bio
A North Carolina native, Joshua Cody Ward joined the program in Fall 2022. His field is Modern and Contemporary American literature broadly (1900-Present), specifically Literature of the American South and African American Literature. His research interests include the archive, textual studies, editorial scholarship, intertextuality, and the Novel.
Publications:
- “From Commas to Cosmos: The Pervading Influence of Thomas Wolfe on Cormac McCarthy.” The Thomas Wolfe Review. Forthcoming.
- “Publishing the Black Arts Movement: Editors, Anthologies, and Canonization.” South Atlantic Review. Forthcoming.
- [album] The Boron Heist. Ridin’ Rough. Mystery School Records, April 6 2019.
- “Light and Darkness, Sight and Blindness: Religious Knowledge in Cormac McCarthy’s Outer Dark.” Wingate Research Review, issue 8, Fall 2016, pp. 87-106.
Awards
- Emerging Scholar Award, Summer 2023, UNC Chapel Hill, Southern Futures program.
- Teaching Fellow, Fall 2022-Spring 2023, UNC Chapel Hill.
- LSP Teaching Fellowship, Spring 2023, UNC Chapel Hill Latina/o Studies Program.
- Graduate Student Transportation Grant, Spring 2023, UNC Chapel Hill, Graduate School, “‘Writing around the edges of things’: On the Lighthouse in American Literature and in Jeff VanderMeer’s Annihilation.”
- 2021 Graduate Student Essay Award, November 12th, 2022, SAMLA 94.
- Travel Grant, Fall 2022, UNC Chapel Hill, English and Comparative Literature Department, “Charles Johnson, Ishmael Reed, and Black Women’s Writing in the 1980s: Perceptions versus Reality” & “Urban Fantasy and the Dickensian in Alex Pheby’s Mordew.”
- The Julian D. Mason Award for Excellence in Graduate Studies, April 29th, 2022, UNC Charlotte English Department.
- Graduate Teaching Assistantship, Fall 2020-Spring 2022, UNC Charlotte.
- Wittliff Collections William Hill Research Award, 2021-2022, Texas State University, For archival research conducted July 2021 in the Cormac McCarthy Papers and Woolmer Collections.
- Anne Newman Graduate Student Travel Grant, Fall 2021, UNC Charlotte, “Is Samuel Butler’s Erewhon A Modernist Novel.”
- Excellence in Philosophy Award, April 24th, 2016, Wingate University Religious Studies Department.
- G. Byrns Coleman Award for Excellence in Religious Studies, April 24th, 2016, Wingate University Religious Studies Department.
- University Honors, April 24th, 2016, Wingate University.