About

Charlie Gleek is a Ph.D. candidate (ABD) in the Comparative Studies Program at Florida Atlantic University, under the co-direction of Dr. Taylor Hagood and Dr. Marcella Munson. Overtly interdisciplinary by training, Charlie’s scholarly concentration focuses on the print culture of southern literature during the late-capitalist period. His dissertation project, “Southern Fringes: Literary Magazines, Paratext, and Larry Brown’s Short Fiction,” draws on bibliographic and book history methods and post-critique reading practices to demonstrate the significance varieties of southernness are found beyond literary representation in the paratext and material features of bibliographic documents. Charlie’s recently published work appears in The Chattahoochee Review,  Penumbra: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Critical Inquiry, i.e.: inquiry in education, and on Humanities Commons.

Charlie’s teaching interests intersect across the following areas: American Literature and History, Anglophone World Literature and History, Artists’ Books and Book Arts, History of the Book and Print Culture, Literary and Cultural Studies, Multicultural Literature and History, New Southern Literature, Culture, and History, Postcolonial Literature and History, and Rhetoric and Composition.Charlie’s most recent teaching experience includes undergraduate courses in the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters’ Interdisciplinary Studies program, the Department of English, and the Department of History. Charlie also works as a Program Assistant in the College’s School of Interdisciplinary Studies.

Charlie’s range of interests and experiences fall well outside academia. A musician since childhood, he toured internationally and recorded as a member of the American Boychoir under the direction of James Litton. Charlie’s contemporary musical projects, recordings, and performances in warehouses and homes, bars and pubs, to dedicated concert venues and summer touring festivals, spans more than three decades of work, including his current roles as drummer and bassist in several bands. Before coming to academia, Charlie worked as a landscaper, on loading docks, and in warehouses, on retail floors, and as a line cook: working-class experiences that inform both his scholarship and pedagogy.

Charlie teaches in the Humanities Department at St. Anne’s-Belfield and lives with his wife Kate Schmitt and their dog Maddie in Charlottesville, VA.