Joshua Cody Ward

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 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, and intertextuality.

Publications:

• “From Commas to Cosmos: The Pervading Influence of Thomas Wolfe on Cormac McCarthy.” The Thomas Wolfe Review. Accepted
• “Publishing the Black Arts Movement: Editors, Anthologies, and Canonization.” South Atlantic Review. Accepted
• [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.
• Graduate Student Essay Award, November 12^th, 2022, SAMLA 94.
• The Julian D. Mason Award for Excellence in Graduate Studies, April 29^th, 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 24^th, 2016, Wingate University Religious Studies Department.
• Byrns Coleman Award for Excellence in Religious Studies, April 24^th, 2016, Wingate University Religious Studies Department.
• University Honors, April 24^th, 2016, Wingate University.

Curriculum Vitae / Resume