Gleason, Dr. Daniel

• Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania
• M.A. English Literary Study, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga
• B.A. English, Bryan College

• "The Service Went On": Natasha Trethewey's Liturgical Poetics, conference paper at the Conference on Christianity and Literature, 2020
• “Time, Trauma, and Redemption in the Works of Tobias Wolff.”  Conference paper at the Conference on Christianity and Literature, 2019.
• "Traumatized Masculinity: Men and Boys in the Works of Tobias Wolff." Indiana University of Pennsylvania, 2018. Proquest.
• “’Not Gone or Vanished Either’: Memory and Imagination in the Novels of William Faulkner.” The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, 2010. Proquest.

Poems

• "Elegy for my Eighth Grade Typing Teaching" Monologging
• "Toast at a Wake" The Healing Muse
• "Patron Saint," "Faith," and "Suspended" Dappled Things
• "Sky-Punch" The Cresset
• "Conjuring Prayer" Slant: A Journal of Poetry
• "Bless the Farm Leagues" Dual Coast Magazine
• "When He Dies" Word Fountain
• "For Chistopher;" Common Ground Review
•  “Funeral Fan, a Lament” The Windhover
• “Shadowboxing Late at Night” Rattle Poetry
• “Through the Kitchen Window” Red Flag Poetry
• “Sleepwalking” Tipton Poetry Review
• “kings and toys” Sharkpack Poetry
• “On the Weather Channel” Rosebud

Essays

• "My Year with Emily Dickinson (on Twitter)" Monologging

• The Conference on Christianity and Literature, member
• Tennessee Philological Association
• Sigma Tau Delta English Honors Society

• Scholar of the Year, 2018-2019 (academic year)
• The Golden Acorn: Departmental Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2012.
• The William Jennings Bryan Philological Award for Excellence in the English Major, 2005.

Topics of Expertise

• 20th Century American Fiction
• Contemporary Poetry
• Masculinity Theory
• Trauma Theory