Zachary Elijah Showers
- zachary.showers@famu.edu
- PHONE
- 850-599-3737
- OFFICE
- English
Tucker Hall Rm #411
Monday/Wednesday • 8:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.
Tuesday • 8:00-11:00
ENC 1101 Freshman Communicative Skills I • MWF — 9:05 a.m. - 9:55 a.m. | Gore B104
ENC 1101 Freshman Communicative Skills I • MWF — 10:10 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. | Gore A108
ENL 4331 Shakespeare • MW — 12:20 p.m. - 1:35 p.m. | Tucker 116
ENL 3013 English Literature I • MW — 2:30 p.m.-3:45 p.m. | Tucker 201
ENL 3013E English Literature I • ONLINE
I am from the small town of Black in Southeast Alabama, and thus I have an accent thick enough to pour on a waffle. From an early age I have been enamored of literature, that which Wordsworth describes as “the spirit breathed from dead men to their kind,” and I dang sure love running my mouth about it.
This is my dream job.
I wear flipflops to class, except during the week or so every year when the cold or the rain forces me to wear real shoes. Regardless of the weather, I wear the same hat.
If I see a student wearing a t-shirt featuring some heavy metal band or other, I will either recommend songs incessantly or talk about the time I saw them in concert until the student regrets their fashion choice. So far, I have been unable to break myself of this habit.
I am of Generation X, the last of those who grew up before the internet, so my classes are not exactly technologically progressive. Students must not expect Powerpoints, Prezis, or “such-like drolleries,” as Ben Jonson once called The Tempest, but they can expect to learn many things they did not know before.
- Early Modern English Literature
- Twentieth Century British Literature, most especially the works of James Joyce, Evelyn Waugh, Aldous Huxley and George Orwell
- Twentieth-Century American Literature
- Satirical Literature
- Marxist Theory
- University of Alabama • 2010
Ph.D. in English,
Dissertation: “Thou Art Unreal, My Ideal: Nostalgia as Ideology in the Works of Evelyn Waugh, Aldous Huxley, and George Orwell” defended 30 June 2010
Dissertation Chair: Dr. Patti White - University of Florida • 2001
M.A. in English,
Thesis: “No New Thing Under the Sun: Old Testament Prophets and Patriarchs in James Joyce’s Ulysses”
Committee Chair: Dr. R. Brandon Kershner. - University of Alabama • 1999
B.A. in English (cum laude) - University of Wales at Aberystwyth • 1998
Semester Program
- Associate Professor • Present
Florida A&M University, Tallahassee, FL - English Instructor • 2008-2014
Enterprise State Community College
Publications:
“Slaughterhouse-Five,””Herland” “T.S. Eliot,” “Pearl Buck,” “John Kennedy O’Toole” and “A Confederacy of Dunces” Twentieth-Century and Contemporary American Literature in Context, edited by Linda De Roche, ABC-CLIO, 2021.
“Church Burning.” Penumbra, an Interdisciplinary Journal of Critical and Creative Inquiry. 1.6 (2019): 40-45.
“Independent Systems of Ideology: Evelyn Waugh’s Decline and Fall.” Journal of English Literature and Cultural Studies. 2.2 (2019): 131-154.
“Perennial Rule of the Masses: Class, Sex and Decline in Ape and Essence.” Extrapolation. 58.1 (2017): 21-43.
“Crazed by the Moon: The Duality of the Heron in Yeats' Calvary,” Yeats-Eliot Review. 23 (2006): 2-12.
“The Way It Started,” The Rectangle. 76 (2001): 73-75.
“Men of Black, Alabama,” The Rectangle. 72 (1998): 25-28.
“Report Concerning the Dreadful Case of Enoch Threats,” Heath Anthology of American Literature Newsletter. 17 (1998): 4-5.
Performances:
“Gordon MacInnes.” The Waiting Room. Directed by Luther Wells. FAMU Essential Theatre, February 16-20, 2022.
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ENC 1101, Freshman Communication Skills I
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ENC 1102, Freshman Communication Skills II
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ENL 3013, English Literature I
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ENL 3034, English Literature II
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ENL 4240, The Romantic Period
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ENL 4331, Shakespeare I
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ENL 4332, Shakespeare II
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ENC 0015, Developmental Writing I
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LIT 2000, Introduction to Literature
