Leslie Harper Worthington
Dr. Worthington is Division Chair of Language and Humanities and has taught composition,
literature, creative writing, film, and communication courses. She began teaching 30 years ago
at Auburn University. Since then, in addition to teaching at AU, she has taught at Troy
University, Georgia Military College, Georgia Tech, and University of North Georgia.
She is a recipient of a Brittain Fellowship from the Georgia Institute of Technology and a Quarry
Farm Fellowship from the Center for Mark Twain Studies at Elmira College. Her book Cormac
McCarthy and the Ghost of Huck Finn was released in January 2012, and she has also published
scholarly articles and creative writings.
Education:
Ph.D. in English from Auburn University, 2007
Ed.S. from Troy University, 1997
M.A. in English from Auburn University, 1988
B.A. in English from Auburn University at Montgomery, 1984
Certification in New Media Theory, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2005
Certification in Electronic Pedagogy, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2005
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Seeking Home (critical anthology) forthcoming in 2014.
"Paola's World" (short story), Stonepile Anthology 2014, University of North Georgia
Press.
"No Country for Young Men: Intertextual Connections between All the Pretty
Horses and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," in Beyond Borders: Cormac
McCarthy's All the Pretty Horses, June 2014.
“Sissy’s Trees.” (short story). The Woven Word, June 2013.
“Obsolescence,” “My Boy,” “Women Who Write,” “Poet Soup.” (poems). The Woven
Word, June 2013.
"Moma Done Done It" (short story), Sugar Mule, Summer 2013.
“Hunting Huckleberry: Intertextual Connections between Lee Smith and Mark Twain”
(journal article), 49th Parallel: An Interdisciplinary Journal of North American Studies,
Spring 2013.
"Army Issue" (poem), Proud to Be: Writing by American Warriors, November 2012.
“Life is Lovely on a River: Cormac McCarthy’s Suttree and The Huck Finn Tradition"
(casebook chapter), special issue of The Cormac McCarthy Journal: You Would Not
Believe What Watches. Ed. Rick Wallach, September 2012.
“November 22” (poem), Silent Revelations, Spring 2012.
“Georgia Snow” (poem), Kudzu Magazine, Spring 2012.
“The Beach House” (short story), The Fertile Source, January 2012.
Cormac McCarthy and the Ghost of Huck Finn (book), McFarland Publishers, January
2012.
“Home Without You” (poem), CHEST: The Journal of American College Chest
Physicians, August 2011.
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“She’s the One” (poem), CHEST: The Journal of American College Chest Physicians,
July 2011.