Andy Meyer

Adjunct Instructor

ameyer@cornish.edu

Andy Meyer comes originally from Iowa. He earned a B.A. in English (with a minor in music) from Luther College in Decorah, where he was also a member of the internationally recognized Nordic Choir. He received his Ph.D. in English from the University of Washington in 2010. Andy’s research and scholarship focus on nineteenth- and twentieth-century American literature, poetry and poetics, and “ecocriticism,” exploring the relationship between humans and environment in literature. He has been teaching at the University of Washington for six years, both in the English Department and UW’s interdisciplinary Program on the Environment. His courses have ranged from first-year composition to interdisciplinary environmental writing, from introductory fiction and poetry courses to advanced literature surveys and literary theory and criticism. In his teaching, Andy agrees with Ralph Waldo Emerson who insists that “the use of literature is to afford us a platform whence we may command a view of our present life, a purchase by which we may move it.” This, indeed, could be said of all the arts, and Andy is thrilled to engage in literary thinking with students at Cornish.