Jimmie Killingsworth

Photo by Myrth Killingsworth

Title: Professor
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
Email: killingsworth@tamu.edu
Professor 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.

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