Biography
Dr. Jeremy Larance, Professor of English, teaches composition and literature with a focus on British literature and popular culture. His research and publications examine British literature, comics studies, sport literature, copyright, and open educational resources. He serves on the editorial board of “Aethlon: The Journal of Sport Literature” and is Editor-in-Chief of “Brit-Lit OER” (BritLit.org). He consults nationally on student success initiatives, corequisite support, academic planning, and open education. An advocate for open education and textbook affordability, he serves on the Steering Committee of the Open Education Association and is an Open Education Group Fellow. The West Virginia Higher Education Policy Commission recognized his work on statewide initiatives with its OER Support Champion Award. He is, by default, West Virginia’s leading scholar of cricket literature and curator of the state’s largest collection of antiquarian poker books.
Education
Ph.D. in English Literature, University of Tulsa
M.A. in English Literature, Louisiana Tech University
B.A. in English, Sewanee: The University of the South
Professional Experiences
Complete College America Content Expert
Creative Commons Certificate
Faculty Success Administrator Certification
Most Recent Publications and Presentations
Publications
“Opening the Field: Advocating for Creative Commons in Sport Literature Scholarship,” _Medium_
“The Organizations.” _The Routledge Handbook of the Secret Origins of Comics Studies_
“Alan Moore’s Marvelman: Harbinger of the Modern Age of Comics.” _Works and Days_
“The A. J. Raffles Stories Reconsidered: Fall of the Gentleman Ideal.” _English Literature in Transition, 1880–1920_
“What’s ‘Not Cricket’ Ain’t Necessarily Baseball Either: Class and Racial Dichotomies in the Literature of Cricket and Baseball.” _Baseball/Literature/Culture: Essays_
“40-Year Annotated Index: Volumes 1–40.” _James Joyce Quarterly_
Presentations
“1744 and the Dawn of the English Cricketer Ideal.” East-Central American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Annual Meeting.
“Batman and Teaching: Roundtable.” Batman in Popular Culture Conference.
“Beyond the Gutenberg Copy and Paste: Key Considerations for Designing a Scholarly OER Literary Anthology.” All Things Open Week.
“Building Capacity for Research and Teaching with Comics.” Comics, Libraries, and Social Justice Forum.
“Continuous Improvement in Writing Pedagogy and Curriculum.” Montana University System Corequisite Convening: Policy, Equity, and Practice.
“The Creative Commons and the Biggest Billboard Hit of All Time—Yes, ‘Old Town Road.’” Open Learning WV Statewide Convening.
“Cricket, War, and Imperial Heroism in Sir Henry Newbolt’s ‘Vitaï Lampada.’” Sport Literature Association Annual Conference.
“The Doctrine of [W. G.] Grace: The Sporting World’s First International Icon.” Sport Literature Association Annual Conference.
“Engaging Students in the Creation, Curation, and Collaboration of Open Educational Resources.” Open Learning WV Statewide Convening.
“The Frankenstein’s Monster of OER; or, The OER Monster Mash[up]: Remixing Open Educational Resources.” Open Learning WV Statewide Convening.
“From Muggleton to Gad’s Hill: Charles Dickens and the Fictionalization of Nineteenth-Century Cricket.” Sport Literature Association Annual Conference.
“Grip It and Rip It: Committing to Corequisite Composition.” Annual Convening of Complete College America.
“How to Turn an English Professor into a ‘Colonizer’: Creating a Graphic Narrative Degree at West Liberty University.” West Virginia Association of College English Teachers Spring Conference.
“An Irish Eye for an Eye: The Other Eyes of Joyce’s ‘Cyclops.’” North American James Joyce Conference.
“Kids [Not] in America: A ‘Wilde’ Search for Visual Allusions in Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis.” West Virginia Association of College English Teachers Spring Conference.
“Kipling and Co.: The Authorial/Imperial Voice(s) of Rudyard Kipling’s Stalky Stories.” Modernist Studies Association Conference.
“License, Copy, Create, Remix…Repeat: A Creative Commons Case Study That Literally Broke the Charts.” WVROCKS Online Learning Forum.
“A Little Further on Down the Old Town Road: The Creative Commons and the Biggest(s) Billboard Hit(s) of All Time.” WVROCKS Online Learning Forum.
“Muhammad ‘Übermensch’ Ali: Depictions of ‘The Greatest’ as a Black Superhero in ’70s Popular Culture.” Sport Literature Association Annual Conference.
“Raisers and Razors: ‘Darktown’ Poker Stories from Life to Jerry Reed.” Sport Literature Association Annual Conference.
“The Rhetoric and Meaning of Basketball in the Golden Age of Hip Hop.” Sport Literature Association Annual Conference.
“Shticks with Big Sticks: Baseball and Barnstorming Golems in the Graphic Novels of James Sturm.” Sport Literature Association Annual Conference.