portrait of Jeremy Ecke

Interim Dean, College of Humanities, Arts, Social Sciences, and Education
Associate Professor

Office: 201-G Fine Arts
Email: [email protected]

Educational Background

  • Ph.D., English with Linguistic Emphasis, University of California at Berkeley, 2009
  • B.A., Highest Honors, University of California at Davis, 2000

Academic and Administrative Positions

  • Interim Dean, CHASSE, July 2025-Current
  • Interim Associate Dean of College Operations, CHASSE, July 2022-June 2025
  • Director of Undergraduate Research, 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock, August 2019-June 2022
  • Associate Professor, Chair, Department of English, 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock, June 2018-June 2022
  • Director of Signature Experience Research and Creative Works Program, 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock, August 2018-August 2019
  • Student Success Coordinator, Department of English, 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock, August 2016-May 2018
  • Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, August 2012-May 2018
  • Assistant Professor, Department of English, Belmont University, Nashville Tennessee, August 2010-May 2012
  • Holloway Postdoctoral Fellow in Poetry and Poetics, Department of English, University of California at Berkeley, June 2009-July 2010
  • Teaching Associate, Department of English, University of California at Berkeley, Spring 2004-Spring 2009

Areas of Focus

  • Metrics and Poetics: Rhyme, Alliteration, and Phonology
  • Linguistic Approaches to Literature
  • The History and Structure of English & English as a World Language

Selected Publications

  • Ecke, Jeremy. 鈥淐rowdsourcing: Language, Culture, and Student Exchange.鈥� ESL Studies:  Current Issues and Strategies, ed. Elena Polyudova, Cambridge Scholars Press, 2018. Print.
  • Ecke, Jeremy. 鈥淣a Ilka Daie Leid: Poetry and Linguistic Preservation,鈥� T艂umaczenie pezji-negocjowanie wyobra藕ni. Poszukiwaniu formy. Warsaw: UKSW Press, 2017. Print.
  • Ecke, Jeremy. 鈥淟et all your Verse be Literall: Innovation and Identity in Scottish Alliterative Verse.鈥� Medievalia et Humanistica, New Series, Number 41 (Reinhold F. Glei and Maik Goth, eds.), Rowan & Littlefield, 2016. Print.

Selected Presentations

  • 鈥淐oncatenation, Constituency, and the Alliterative Line.鈥� Frontiers in Comparative Metrics III. Estonia, September 2017.
  • 鈥淐rowdsourcing: Language, Culture, and Student Exchange.鈥� English as a Second Language Studies: Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association, November 13, 2016.
  • 鈥淭he Poetics of Translation and Transmission in Synthetic Scots.鈥� T艂umaczenie poezji 鈥搉egocjowanie wyobra藕ni: W poszukiwaniu formy (Poetry Translation 鈥� Negotiating the Imagination: Quest for Form), Uniwersytet Kardyna艂a Stefana Wyszy艅skiego, Warsaw, October 20, 2016.
  • 鈥淓ngaging English: An Active Approach to English Grammar Instruction.鈥� Expo Internacional Lengua y Cultura: La Ling眉铆stica y los Idiomas, Universidad Aut贸noma del Estado de Hidalgo, September 30, 2015.
  • 鈥淵o鈥� Sto鈥�: Community and Language from MLK to Central High.鈥� Arkansas Philological Association Conference, Arkansas State, Oct. 15-17, 2015.
  •  鈥淟inguistic and Cultural Exchange in World Englishes.鈥� Keynote Speech: 2014 International Language and Culture Expo: Interculturality and Languages, Universidad Aut贸noma del Estado de Hidalgo. September 24, 2014.
  •  鈥淟et all your Verse be Literal: Innovation and Identity in Scottish Alliterative Verse.鈥� Writing Identity: 14th International Conference of Medieval and Renaissance Scottish Literature. Ruhr University, Bochum, Germany. July 28-31, 2014.
  • 鈥淢eter, Measure, and Interpretability: A Morphology of Medieval Poetics.鈥� 48th International Congress on Medieval Studies. Kalamazoo, MI. May 9-12, 2013.
  • 鈥淎lliteration and Innovation: Rethinking the Alliterative Line.鈥� Folklore Society, the University of Tartu, and the Warburg Institute. Alliterativa Causa: A Conference about Alliteration and Prose. Warburg Institute, London, UK. 18 January 2013.
  • 鈥淭he Development of Form & Genre in 15th & 16th Century Alliterative Verse.鈥� International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, May 12-15, 2011.
  • 鈥淰oice and Performance in Anglo-Saxon Poetry.鈥� Sewanee Medieval Colloquium: Voice, Gesture, Memory, and Performance in Medieval Texts, Culture, and Art, April 8-9, 2011.
  • 鈥淭he Metrical Imagination.鈥� The Marco Manuscript Workshop: Department of English, University of Tennessee. February 5, 2011.
  • 鈥淭he Riddle of Reading Runes & Intertextuality in the Franks Casket.鈥� God is in the Details: A Reflection on Methodology in the Humanities, Universit脿 degli Studi di Milano, June 10-11, 2010.
  • 鈥淢edieval Measure: A New Alliterative Line.鈥� Modern Language Association Annual Convention, Philadelphia, December 2009.
  • 鈥淢iscellany and Macaronic Meters: Alliterative Appropriation of French Poetic Form.鈥� Rencontres Franco-Am茅ricaines, Linguistique et Litt茅rature, 脡cole Normale Sup茅rieure, Paris, France, June 19, 2008.
  • 鈥淕rammatical Estrangement.鈥� Berkeley Language Center鈥檚 Lecture Series, May 2005. Excerpt published in the Berkeley Language Center Newsletter, Fall 2005.
  • 鈥淩eading 鈥楢lliteratively鈥�: The Middle English Pearl and the Allegory of Artifice.鈥� Poetic Fest: Stanford University, May 14, 2005.