Jimmie Killingsworth |
Jimmie Killingsworth |
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Title: | Professor |
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| Status: | Faculty | |
| Office: | Blocker 247 | |
| Phone: | (979) 845-3890 | |
| Fax: | (979) 862-2292 | |
| Address: | Texas A&M University Department of English MS 4227 College Station, TX 77843 |
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| Email: | killingsworth@tamu.edu | |
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and Head of the English Department at Texas A&M, M. Jimmie Killingsworth received his PhD from
the University of Tennessee in 1979 and taught writing, technical communication,
rhetoric, and American literature at four universitites before coming to A&M in 1990. His publications
include Whitman's Poetry of the Body: Sexuality,
Politics, and the Text (1989), Ecospeak: Rhetoric and Environmental
Politics in America (1992, co-authored with Jackie Palmer, his
wife, a specialist in scientific and environmental communication and Senior Lecturer in English at A&M), Signs,
Genres, and Communities in Technical Communication (1992, co-authored
with Michael Gilbertson), Walt Whitman and the Earth: A Study in Ecopoetics (University of Iowa Press, 2004), Appeals in Modern Rhetoric: An Ordinary-Language Approach (Southern Illinois University Press, 2005), The Cambridge Introduction to Walt Whitman (Cambridge University Press, 2007), a textbook, Information in Action: A Guide to Technical Communication
(Allyn and Bacon, 1996), the second edition co-authored again with Jackie Palmer
(Allyn and Bacon, 1999), and a book of nature writing Reflections of the Brazos Valley (Texas A&M University Press, 2007), with photographs by D. Gentry Steele. Killingsworth participates in local nature education programs and is a proud member of the Brazos Valley Chapter of Texas Master Naturalists.
A native of South Carolina, Killingsworth lives in College Station with his wife Jackie Palmer. Their daughter Myrth Killingsworth recently graduated with an art degree from Rice University in Houston. A guitar player for over forty years and a 30-year veteran on the mandolin, he frequently plays folk music, bluegrass, gospel, and jazz in local venues. |
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Texas A&M University / College
of Liberal Arts / Department of English
Send comments, suggestions, and problems to killingsworth@tamu.edu. |
