Faculty Profile

Name: Chris Green
Title: Associate Professor
Office: English/COLA
Phone: 304-696-6269
Email: greenc@marshall.edu
Expert: Appalachia, West Virginia, Kentucky, Appalachian Literature, Multicultural Poetry
 

Achievements
Creative Works:
	*Coal: A Poetry Anthology*. Ashland, KY: Blair Mountain Press, 2006.
	*Rushlight: Poems*. Huron, OH: Bottom Dog Press, 2010.
Research Based:
	Book, Co-Editor: Radicalism in the South Since Reconstruction. New York: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2006.
	Monograph: *Social Life of Poetry: Appalachia, Race, and Radical Modernism*. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. Winner of the 2009 Weatherford Award for best non-fiction book about Appalachia.
Professional/Community Based Service:
	Board Member of Jesse Stuart Foundation: Board member for Jesse Stuart Foundation.
	Co-Director: Center for the Study of Gender and Ethnicity in Appalachia
	Program Chair: Appalachain Studies Conference for 2008.
Awards:
	Weatherford Award for Best Nonfiction Book on Appalachia Awarded for *The Social Life of Poetry*. "Berea College and the Appalachian Studies Association annually present the Weatherford Award to the authors of one non-fiction work and one fiction work which in its year best illuminates the challenges, personalities, and unique qualities of the Appalachian South."

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