Dr. Michael Jaynes
Curriculum Vita
423-425-4238 (work)
michael-jaynes@utc.edu
EDUCATION
2014
EdD, Learning and Leadership
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
4.0 / 4.0 GPA
Dissertation: A CAUSAL COMPARATIVE INVESTIGATION INTO
TRANSACTIONAL VERSUS TRANSFORMATIONAL INSTRUCTIONAL
DELIVERY STYLE IN TWO FRESHMAN-LEVEL HUMANITIES
COURSESAT A SOUTHEASTERN AMERICAN UNIVERSITY
2005
MA, Professional Writing
3.8 / 4.0 GPA
Academic concentrations and interests: Creative Writing and Feminism
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
2002
BA, English Literature and Language
Spanish minor
3.0 / 4.0 GPA
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
EMPLOYMENT
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Lecturer in English
The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Supervisor: Dr. Chris Stuart, Department Head
Past Supervisors:
Dr. Joe Wilferth
Dr. Verbie Prevost
Dr. David Garrison
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2006
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Adjunct Instructor of English
Dalton State College
650 College Drive
Dalton, Georgia 30720
Supervisor: Dr. Mary Neilson, Dean of Humanities and
Department Head
706-272-4407
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Adjunct Instructor of English
Chattanooga State Technical Community College
4501 Amnicola Highway
Chattanooga, TN 37406
Supervisor: Dr. Randy Schulte, Professor and Head
423-697-4440
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2003-2005
Summer, 2005
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423-425-4238
English Instructor
The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga’s University
Bound Program
Supervisor: Chris Stokes, Director
423-227-3096
Summer, 2004 and Fall, 2004
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English Instructor
The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga’s Upward
Bound Program
Supervisor: Booker T. Scruggs, Director
423-425-4251
ACADEMIC SPECIALIZATIONS AND COURSES TAUGHT
Having received formal training in professional and creative writing, feminism,
Spanish, and English and American Literature and Language, I have broadened
my research interests to include Animal Ethics. I have also researched, lectured,
and published on such various subjects as Human Learning Theory, Greek
Mythology, Homer, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Alice Walker, Tom Robbins, the Fox
television drama House M.D.
I have taught the following courses at various institutes of higher learning since
2003:
 Developmental Writing I
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Developmental Writing II
Rhetoric and Composition I
Rhetoric and Composition II
World Literature
Western Humanities I
Western Humanities II
Values in 20th Century American Fiction
Children's Literature
Literature for the Adolescent
Greek Myth and the Hero in the Twentieth century
Ecofeminsim
American Masculinities
Writing Beyond the Academy
Introduction to Women’s Studies
Introduction to Literature
Popular Horror Fiction
Introduction to Animal Rights
The Ethics of Star Trek
SELECTED LECTURES / INTERVIEWS/ MEDIA APPEARENCES/
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
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Invited participant in a recent graduate Ed.D panel by the faculty of
the Learning and Leadership doctoral program at UTC. The panel
was in the summer of 2015.
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Spoke at UTC's 2012 Faculty Research Day regarding my article
"The Response of College Freshmen to the Ethics of Animal Rights:
An Example of Applied Learning Theory." published in Ethical
Human Psychology and Psychiatry, issue 14(3), 2012
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Invited by UTC’s Women’s Studies program to deliver the lecture
“Porn in the USA: A white male feminist perspective” on October
29, 2012.
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Paper “Develop(mental) Games and the Writing Classroom”
accepted for presentation at the Intellect Intellibase Consortium
Academic Conference in Houston, Texas on May 28th, 2010. Could
not attend.
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Invited speaker to the 2010 Summit for the Elephants hosted by the
Performing Animal Welfare Society in San Andreas, California
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Hosted many viewings of documentary films since 2008 in
conjunction with the Awake and Engage(d) documentary film series
(complete list available upon request) which I cofounded and
continue to direct.
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Invited to present my lecture “How the white straight male will save
feminism” at the 2010 conference of the International Journal of
Arts and Sciences on May 31st, 2010, at Harvard University,
Cambridge Massachusetts. Could not attend.
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Invited speaker to the Third International Global Studies Conference
hosted by Pusan National University in Busan, South Korea. My
paper “Eating Meat, Watching Porn: What’s Ecofeminism got to do
with it?” was accepted for presentation. Could not attend.
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Featured in the Chattanooga Times Free Press as a “Person to
Watch” on August, 11th, 2009
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Invited panelist/speaker to the 2009 National Animal Rights
Conference in Los Angeles in July, 2009. Could not attend.
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Invited panelist/speaker to the 2009 Minding Animals Conference
held at Australia’s University of Newcastle. Could not attend.
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Invited by UTC’s Women’s Studies Program to give the lecture
“Corporate Pornography: Screwing the World” on November 2nd,
2009
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Invited speaker at the 2009 Summit for Elephants conference hosted
by the Performing Animal Welfare Society in San Andreas,
California
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Presented paper “Irish Animal Liberation” presented at the 2009
Southern Regional American Conference for Irish Studies
Conference Hosted by the University of Tennessee-Chattanooga
March 20-22, 2009
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Presented “For the Animals’ Sake: From Factory Farming to Deep
Vegetariansim” to the Chattanooga Institute of Noetic Sciences on
November 8th, 2008.
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Invited to be interviewed by Toronto’s award-winning radio program
Animal Voices as part of their “elephant month” in 2008. Could not
attend.
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Invited by UTC’s Women’s Studies Program to give the lecture
“Porn and Meat: an Ecofeminist Perspective on Connected Cruelty”
in conjunction with the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga’s
Women’s Studies Month on October 7th, 2008.
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Lectured on the American factory farming system by invitation of
Saving Animals Via Education (S.A.V.E.) during the Walk for Farm
Animals Day activities in Chattanooga, Tennessee on September 27,
2008 presenting lecture “Factory Farmed Animals: What Can We
Do?”
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Gave paper entitled "From Achilles to House: The Social Freedom
of Not Giving a Flying Rip (And Being Good Enough)” at the
Modern Popular Culture Association / American Culture
Association’s annual conference in Cincinnati, Ohio on October 3-5,
2008 and I served as Panel Chair of the Anti-Hero in Popular Culture
panel
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Delivered paper entitled “The Saddest Show on Earth: Elephant
(ab)use in Traveling Circuses” at the Modern Popular Culture
Association / American Culture Association’s annual conference in
Cincinnati, Ohio on October 3-5, 2008 and I also served as Panel
Chair for the Plants and Animals in Pop Culture panel
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Spoke at the National Animal Rights Conference, AR2008, in
Washington D.C. on the subject of performing circus elephants and
the proposed restructuring of the rhetoric of the Animal Rights
movement.
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Fiction reading of short story “Monsters.” The University of
Tennessee at Chattanooga’s Spring, 2008, English Faculty Reading
event.
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Interviewed by James C. Koch of the University of Tennessee at
Knoxville’s Marketing Ph.D. program regarding “Going Green” in
contemporary society. Interview will be included in published
research report and an industry publication. As of 2015, interview is
not yet published.
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Paper entitled, “The Primacy of the Individual: Eighty-Eight Years
of the Female Rogue from E.D.E.N. Southworth’s Capitola Black to
Tom Robbins’s Sissy Hankshaw” was presented at the SEWSA
Spring 2007 multidisciplinary Women’s Studies Conference,
“Talking Back, Moving Forward: Gender, Culture, and Power” as
part of a panel titled, “Subversion of the Patriarchy through Art.”
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“An original short course entitled “The Primacy of the Individual:
Rogues from Achilles to House in an increasingly structured society”
was presented as a two part event at Rock Point Books
(Chattanooga, Tennessee) on April 7, 2007
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The lecture “Creative Approaches to Leadership” was delivered in
conjunction with the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga’s
University Bound’s summer program, 2006
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The pedagogically focused presentation “A New Method of
Teaching Homer’s Odyssey: Increasing Learning and Reducing
Whining regarding the Wine-Dark Sea” was given on August 19,
2006 during the Interdisciplinary Western Humanities Conference
held at the Chattanooga campus of the University of Tennessee.
ACADEMIC AND CREATIVE PUBLICATIONS
SINGLE-AUTHOR BOOKS
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Jaynes, M. (2013). Elephants among us: two performing elephants in
twentieth century America. Earth Books: London (May, 31, 2013).
ESSAYS IN PEER REVIEWED JOURNALS
 Article: "The Response of College Freshmen to the Ethics of
Animal Rights: An Example of Applied Learning Theory."
Ethical Human Psychology and Psychiatry, issue 14(3). 2013
 Article “The Ethical Disconnect of the Circus: Humanity's
acceptance of Performing Elephants" Published in California
Polytechnic University’s Between the Species: an On-line
Journal for the Study of Philosophy and Animals volume VIII,
2008
 Article “From War Elephants to Circus Elephants: Humanity’s
Abuse of Elephants” published in the December issue of the
Journal of Critical Animal Studies Volume VII, issue I, 2009
pps. 74-106.
 “Moving Toward an Understanding of ‘Evil’: ‘Young Goodman
Brown,’ University Freshmen, and Semiotics.” Published in
Volume 7, number 1 of Eureka Studies in Teaching Short Fiction
(Fall 2006)
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 “Teaching Alice Walker’s ‘Everyday Use’: Employing Race,
Class, and Gender, with An Annotated Bibliography. “
Coauthored with Marcia Noe. Published in Volume 5, number 1
of Eureka Studies in Teaching Short Fiction (Fall, 2004)
ESSAYS IN BOOKS
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First published in Journal for Critical Animal Studies, the article
“From War Elephants to Circus Elephants Humanity's Abuse of
Elephants” has been selected for inclusion in the forthcoming
anthology The War on Africa’s Elephants: Money, Markets, and the
Myth of “Sustainable Use” to be published by Animal Rights Africa.
As of 2015, book is still not published.
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“Teaching Alice Walker’s ‘Everyday Use’: Employing Race, Class,
and Gender, with An Annotated Bibliography” with Marcia Noe.
Alice Walker New Edition Bloom’s Modern Critical Views Infobase
Publishing: New York, 2007
NATIONALLY CIRCULATED MAGAZINE ARTICLES
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“An Intro to Animal Rights” Four Corners Magazine
February/March, 2009
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“Shark Fin Sadness” Four Corners Magazine April 2009
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“The Logos of Abduction: A Logical Defense of Abductees” UFO
Magazine Spring, 2008.
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“The Suffering of Animals: The Public’s Hatred of Animal Rights
Activists” Selected as Cover Story for Summer, 2008, issue of The
Animals Voice Magazine.
ESSAYS PUBLISHED ON MEDIA WEBSITES, PRINT AND ONLINE
JOURNALS AND NEWSPAPERS
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I Believe Elephants are Worthwhile. Published in National Public
Radio’s (NPR) This I Believe Essay Series, July 20, 2008
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Review of Mike Hudak’s “Western Turf Wars” in Paragon Music
Magazine July 2009, Issue 43, pg.4.
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EDITORIALS
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The Hanging of Big Mary: Someone worth Remembering. Published
on the website of the Captive Animals Protection Society. February,
2009
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Animal Defense, Earth Defense: Compassionate Bedfellows. Earth
First! Journal March-April 2009. pgs. 20-21
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University Student Apathy Toward Dog Fighting: Some Brief Facts
virtually published by S.A.V.E. (Saving Animals Via Education). I
was also chosen as S.A.V.E’s featured writer for 2009
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“Aggressive Posturing does not Create Vegetarians.” The
Vegetarian Site.com August 14, 2008
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“Cultural Traditions Engendering Abuse: Elephant Crushing and
Street Elephants in Thailand.” Animal Writings.Com August 7, 2008
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“Humanity’s Enslavement of Nonhuman Animals: Why Human
Nature is not Inherently Flawed” About.com August, 2008
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“The Rhetoric of Hunting and Whaling: Sustainable Abuse”
Abolitionist Online Issue VII
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“Whale Sharks and Callous Anthropocentrism.” Animal’s Voice,
June 2008
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“A Case for Shelter Adoption: Sir Brutus Maximus, Eater of the
Treats, King of all Romp.” The Animal Rescue Site
www.theanimalrescuesite.com March, 2008
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Excerpt from “No ‘Green’ Eggs and Ham: How to Not Destroy the
Earth and Save Animals.” The University Echo: Student Newspaper
of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga April 17th, 2008
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NPR’s This I Believe
About.Com
Animal Rights Community.com
Animal Suffering.com
Animal Concerns.org
All Creatures.org
The University Echo
Animal Writings.Com
The Animal Rescue Site
The University Echo
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CREATIVE PUBLICATIONS
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Creative Non Fiction essay Confessions of a Recovering Reckless
Hypochondriac. Published in Wordriver Literary Review. Vol. 1,
2009
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Short Story Gasoline Christmas awarded first prize in the 2010 Long
Short Stories Competition.
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Short story Midsummer published in Farmhouse Magazine.
January/February issue 2008
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Short story Monsters published in Farmhouse Magazine. May/June
issue 2007
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Short story Animal Man published under the pseudonym R.B. Trout
in Riverwalk Journal. September/October issue 2007
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Poetry published in
-Aalst Magazine (England, out of print)
-Contemporary Southern Poets of 1998 (DLS books)
-The Central California Poetry Journal
-Raunchland
AWARDS, GRANTS, AND HONORS
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Awarded the EDO designation of "Exceeds Expectations" in 2012,
2010, and 2008. Recommended for Exceeds Expectations by
Department Head in 2013.
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Presented the English Department Head's Special Award for
Teaching in 2011
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Presented the English Department Head’s Special Award for Service
in 2010
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Presented the English Department Head’s Special Award for
Scholarship in 2009
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Selected as a 2010 British Literature AP Reader by Educational
Testing Services. Attended reading session in Louisville, Kentucky
from June 11th to June 17th, 2010.
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Selected as a 2009 British Literature AP Reader by Educational
Testing Services. Attended reading session in Louisville, Kentucky
from June 4th to June 11th, 2009.
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Awarded a Creative Writing Fellowship Grant from Predator Press
and Inkwell Literary Services for an excerpt of a novel in progress,
The Runaway Sun, to attend the San Juan Writers’ Workshop in
July of 2005. Could not attend.
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE ACTIVITIES
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Member of the UTC Women’s Studies Advisory Council
Committee member of English Department’s general education
committee for the 2015/16 academic year
English Department Faculty Secretary for the 2013/14 and 2014/15
academic years
Served on the Department Head's Ad Hoc Committee to address
online teaching initiatives in 2015.
Successfully gained General Education Certification for ENGL
2510r: Popular Fiction
Selected as a 2010 and 2009 AP reader by Educational Testing
Services in the Literature subject category. Chosen as a reader in
2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, and 2015 as well (could not attend).
Organizer of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga’s English
Department’s 10th,11th, 12th,13th, and 14th annual Works in Progress
lecture series
Organizer and Co-founder of the Awake and Engage(d)
Documentary Film Series sponsored by UTC Humanities and UTC
English. The series is ongoing, and was founded in 2008. Served as
primary organizer and director of the series for all seasons so far.
The series starts its eighth season in the fall of 2015.
THE AWAKE AND ENGAGE(D) DOCUMENTARY FILM SERIES
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Co-founded the Lewis-Jaynes first annual Awake and Engage(d)
Documentary Film Series in 2008. After Mr. Lewis left UTC, I
continued the series as the “Awake and Engage(d) Documentary
Film Series” with Andrew Najberg. I have directed the series for
the 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, and 2016
seasons.
37 campus film screenings as of October, 2015
Secured Speaker and Special Events grants of 800 dollars and 400
dollars awarded in 2011 and 2012
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Secured a sponsorship from UTC Humanities for 1000 dollars
annually for the fourth, fifth, and sixth seasons.
Secured a sponsorship from UTC English for 200 dollars annually.
This is a renewing sponsorship through the 2015-16 year.
Secured an 850 dollar library enhancement grant to purchase DVDs
for the library's virtual Awake and Engage(d) Documentary Film
Series Collection in 2012.
In 2012, UTC's Think / Achieve program added the film series as
one of its official events.
REFERENCES
Dr. Marcia Noe
Professor and Coordinator of Women’s Studies
The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
338E Holt Hall, Department 2703
423-425-4692
Dr. Verbie Prevost
Connor Professor of American Literature
The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
203 Holt Hall, Department 2703
423-425-4238
Earl Braggs, MFA
UC Foundation Professor of English
The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
338C Holt Hall, Department 2703
423-425-4793
LETTERS OF RECCOMENDATION: Available upon request
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