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Timothy Ryan Day, Ph.D.


Department of English, Rhetoric and Creative Writing

Education

Ph.D., English Literature, Arizona State University
Máster en Estudios Literarios y Culturales, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
M.A., English, Saint Louis University
B.A., English, Northeastern Illinois University

Practice Areas

  • Ecocriticism
  • Biosemiotics
  • Shakespeare and Early Modern Literature
  • Fermentation History
  • Narrative Scholarship and Creative Writing

Publications and Media Placements

Academic Book

Shakespeare and the Evolution of the Human Umwelt: Adapt, Interpret, and Mutate. London: Routledge, 2021.

Novels and Poetry

Leaven. Madrid: Ybernia Books, 2026.

Outside Athens. New York: Adelaide Books, 2024.

Big Sky. New York: Adelaide Books, 2020.

Green and Grey. Madrid: Lemon Street Press, 2019.

Books in Progress

The Leavening Word. Scholarly monograph on Shakespeare.

Selected Articles and Chapters

"The Wildest Stock." In Teaching Food and Literature. New York: MLA, forthcoming 2026.

"Trees as Metaphors, Trees as Family." In Treelines. Leiden: Brill, edited by Stephen O’Neil, forthcoming 2027.

"Hereafter the Kneading: Shakespeare, Symbiosis, and Yeast." Metacritic Journal, 2026.

"Swallow'd with Yeast and Froth: Shakespeare and Fermentation." Brewery History, 2026.

"Coriolanus, the Microbiome, and Artificial Intelligence." Journal of Literature and Science, 2026.

"Everything That Grows: Photosynthesis, AI, and Shakespeare." In Cultural Representations of Food and Drink in World Literature, edited by Monica Manolachi and Lorena Clara Mihăeș, 2025.

"Immortal Codes: Genetics, Ghosts, and Shakespeare's Sonnets." Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, 2024.

"The Forest for the Trees: Richard Powers's The Overstory, Macbeth, and the Holobiont." Ecozon@ 13, no. 2, 2022. doi:10.37536/ECOZONA.2022.13.2.4398.

"With Parted Eye: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Richard Powers's Orfeo, and Biosemiotics." Green Letters 21, no. 3, 2018. doi:10.1080/14688417.2018.1512418.

Day, Timothy, and Andrew Power. "Partiendo el pan en Shakespeare." Madrid: Artesa Ediciones, 2016.

Essays

"Fermentation, Fiction, and the Cities that Shape Us." Madrid Review, 2026.

"The Sparks and Flint of My Madrid." Madrid Metropolitan, 2026.

"Science and Literature." Writing.ie, 2026.

Reviews and Translations

Review of Shakespeare / Nature: Contemporary Readings in the Human and Non-human, edited by Charlotte Scott (London: The Arden Shakespeare, 2024). Green Letters (2025).

Review of Basura: Cultures of Waste in Contemporary Spain, by Samuel Amago (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2021). Green Letters (2022).

Translation of García, Teresa, and Alberto García. "Breathing with the Other: Ethics and Eco-socialist Perspective in the Poetry of Jorge Riechmann." Ecozon@ 6, no. 1 (2015).

Selected Conferences and Presentations

"Shamespeare in Sci-Fi: Leavening Texts." International Shakespeare Association, Verona, 2026

"AI, Fermentation, and Immortality: From Paracelsus to Bryan Johnson." Coalition for Science and Literature, Ghent, 2026.

"Grafting Kin: Literary and Literal Rootedness in John Fowles's The Tree, James Rebanks's English Pastoral, and Shakespeare." ASLE-UKI, Galway, 2025.

"Swallow'd with Yeast and Froth: Shakespeare and Fermentation." British Society for Literature and Science, Lancaster, 2025.

"Trees as Metaphors, Trees as Family: Diffraction in Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life, Ali Smith's Autumn, and Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus." British Society for Literature and Science, Birmingham, 2024.

"Proud Cedars, Mutinous Winds: Coriolanus, the Microbiome, and the Holobiont." British Society for Literature and Science, Edinburgh, 2023.

"Apple to Apple and Bard to Bard: From Shakespeare to AI through the Mythology of Food." University of Bucharest, 2023.

"Seeds: Media, Politics, Virality, and Text in Víctor Conde and Amaya Galeote's." Universidad de Murcia, 2022.

"Pursued by Gaps: The Winter's Tale, the Holobiont, and Illusions of Autonomy." European Society for the Study of Literature, Mainz, 2022.

"Speaking from Beyond the Grave: Ghosts and Genetics in Shakespeare." Swiss Association of Medieval and Early Modern English Studies, Neuchâtel, 2022.

"Shakespeare's Genesis: Poetry, Emergence, and Biosemiotics." 4th International Conference on Science and Literature, Girona, 2022.

"A Gentler Scion: Katherine May's Wintering, Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale, and Madrid's Uncanny Winter Storm." Nature and Narrative Conference, Madrid, 2022.

"John Milton's Paradise Regained as Response to the Black Legend of Spanish Cruelty." SEDERI Conference, Universidad de La Laguna, Tenerife, 2021.

"Dystopia Now: Richard Powers's The Overstory and Shakespeare's Macbeth." Revisiting Dystopia in Literature and the Visual Arts, UCAM, Murcia, 2020.

"Light and Enlightenment: Milton in Ian McEwan's Solar." Retaking Earth: From Nature Writing to Climate Change Fiction, Nova University, Lisbon, 2020.

"Migrations: Butterflies and Shakespeare in Barbara Kingsolver's Flight Behavior." Midwest Modern Language Association, Chicago, 2019.

"Co-conspirators: Invoking Macbeth in Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake." ASLE-UKI, Plymouth University, 2019.