Jimmie Killingsworth
Title: Professor
Status: Faculty
Office: Blocker 234B
Phone: (979) 847-8550
Fax: (979) 862-2292
Address: Texas A&M University
Department of English
204F Blocker Bldg (MS 4227)
College Station, TX 77843
Email: killingsworth@tamu.edu
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Professor of English and Director of Writing Programs 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 the scholarly books 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 his old roommate and hiking buddy, Michael Gilbertson), and The Growth of Leaves of Grass: The Organic Tradition in Whitman Studies (1993), and 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).  Killingsworth's latest books are Walt Whitman and the Earth: A Study in Ecopoetics (University of Iowa Press, 2004) and Appeals in Modern Rhetoric: An Ordinary-Language Approach (Southern Illinois University Press, 2005). He is continuing critical study on the rhetoric and poetics of place, as well as pursuing new interests in creative nonfiction, with a special interest on nature writing and memoirs.

Killingsworth lives in College Station with his wife Jackie Palmer. Their daughter Myrth Killingsworth now attends Rice University in Houston. A native of South Carolina, Killingsworth has a passion for hillbilly music and country blues. A guitar player for forty years and a 30-year veteran on the mandolin (who ought to be better than he is by now), he plays regularly in local venues, sometimes outside the privacy of his own home. He has been a member of such notorious local ensembles as The Haydukes (folk fusion), The Bee Dreams (blues, rock, and funk), Kat's Kradle (bluegrass), Spittoon (hillbilly punk), and most recently, The Bozarts (folk).

Texas A&M University / College of Liberal Arts / Department of English
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