George Layng
Professor

Education

  • PhD English, Tufts University, 1999

  • MA English, University of Maine, 1994

  • BS Broadcast Journalism, Boston University, 1985

Courses Taught

  • Journalism 1

  • Sports Writing

  • Feature Writing

  • Creative Non-fiction

  • Modern Poetry

  • English Composition

  • English Internship

Publications

“The Environmental Season: Seasonal and Environmental Discourse in the Work of Hal Borland.” ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment. Summer 2019, p. 615-640.

“Gwendolyn Brooks” and “We Real Cool.” The Facts on File Companion to 20th-Century American Poetry. Ed. Burt Kimmelman. New York: Facts on File, 2005.

“Rephrasing Whitman: William Carlos Williams and the Visual Idiom.” William Carlos Williams and the Language of Poetry. Ed. Burton Hatlen and Demetres Tryphonopoulos. Orono, Maine: National Poetry Foundation, 2002.

"The Great Gatsby." The Explicator 56:2 (Winter 1998): 93-95.

Community Engagement

  • Member of the Friends of Pine Hill Cemetery (Westfield, MA).

Campus Engagement

  • Faculty Advisor, The Westfield Voice student newspaper.

Professional Service

  • Former journalist: The Manchester Herald, the Journal Inquirer, The Vermont Times, The Burlington Free Press, and WPOP Radio.