Timothy Ryan Day

Ph.D. in English Literature, Arizona State University — Early Modern Theater

M.A. in English Literature, Saint Louis University

Máster en Estudios Culturales y Literarios, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

B.A. in English Literature, Northeastern Illinois University

Associate Professor, Saint Louis University–Madrid (2020–)

Assistant Professor, Saint Louis University–Madrid (2011–2020)

Visiting Scholar, Rachel Carson Center, Munich (2026)

Visiting Senior Lecturer, American University of Paris (2024)

Teaching Assistant, Arizona State University (2009–2011)

Instructor, Scottsdale Community College (2009–2011)

Instructor, Shantou University, China (2008–2009)

Selected Courses

Deep Narratives: From Microbiomes to AI · Ecocriticism · Introduction to Shakespeare · Alchemists, Cooks & Witches · Milton · Travel Writing · Nature, Ecology & Literature · Food and Literature · Monsters of Europe · Creative Writing: Fiction · Creative Writing: Memoir

Book in Progress

The Leavening Word: Shakespeare, the Microbiome, and Re-imagining the Artificial

Public-Facing Writing

• "Fermentation, Fiction, and the Cities That Shape Us." The Madrid Review
• "The Sparks and Flint of My Madrid." Madrid Metropolitan
• "Science and Literature." Writing.ie

Peer-Reviewed Articles & Chapters

• "Hereafter the Kneading: Shakespeare, Symbiosis, and Yeast." Metacritic Journal In Press
• "Proud Cedars, Mutinous Winds: Coriolanus, the microbiome, and AI." Science and Literature In Press
• "Swallow'd with Yeast and Froth: Shakespeare and Fermentation." Brewery History In Press
• "Everything that Grows: Photosynthesis, AI, and Shakespeare." Cultural Representations of Food. Cambridge Scholars (2025)
• "Immortal Codes: Genetics, Ghosts, and Shakespeare's Sonnets." Interdisciplinary Science Research. Routledge (2023)
• "The Forest for the Trees." Ecozon@ Vol. 13 No. 2 (2022)
• "With Parted Eye." Green Letters Vol. 21 No. 3 (2018)
• Day & Power. "Partiendo el Pan en Shakespeare." Pan. Artesa Ediciones (2016)

• "Shakespeare in Sci-Fi: Leavening Text." International Shakespeare Association. (Verona 2026)
• "AI, Fermentation, and Immortality: From Paracelsus to Brian Johnson." Co-Sci Lit. (Ghent 2026)
• "Grafting Kin: Literary and Literal Rootedness in John Fowles' The Tree, James Rebanks' English Pastoral, and Shakespeare." ASLE-UKI. (Galway 2025)
• "Swallow'd with yeast and froth: Shakespeare and fermentation." British Society of Literature and Science. (Lancaster 2025)
• "Trees as Metaphors, Trees as Family: Microbiomes, AI, and Diffraction in Ali Smith's Autumn, and Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus." Conference of Three Societies on Literature and Science. (Birmingham 2024)
• "Apple to Apple and Bard to Bard: from Shakespeare to AI through the mythology of food." International Conference, University of Bucharest. (Bucharest 2023)
• "Proud Cedars, Mutinous Winds: Coriolanus, the Microbiome, and the Holobiont." British Society for Literature and Science. (Edinburgh 2023)
• "I See a Damaged Planet: Diffractive Reading, Biosemiotics and Reconstituting the Human through Shakespeare in HBO's Station Eleven." TVSERIES 2022. (Valencia 2022)
• "Shakespearean Family Trees: A Diffractive Memoir of Metaphor, Literature and Genetics." Tree Lines. (Maynooth 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. (Neuchatel 2022)
• "Shakespeare's Genesis: Poetry, Emergence, and Biosemiotics." 4th International Conference on Science and Literature. (Girona 2022)
• "Seeds: Media, Politics, Virality, and Text in Victor Conde and Amaya Galeote's Macbeth." Macbeth in European Culture. (Murcia 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' 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." Midwestern Modern Language Association. (Chicago 2019)
• "Co-conspirators: Invoking Macbeth in Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake." Association for the Study of Literature and Environment-UKI, Plymouth University. (Plymouth 2019)

Awards

Beaumont Fellowship (2026)

Scholarship Opportunity Fund Grant (2026) — Research travel to Rachel Carson Center, Munich

Research Grant (2025) — Production of Seeds of Fate video game

Student Government Teaching Award (2019, 2021)

Collaborative Inquiry Core Fellow (2023) · Ignite Core Fellow (2021)

Quarterfinalist, American Zoetrope Screenplay Contest (2010)

University Service

Faculty Senate President (2025–) · Faculty Senate VP (2023–2025) · Saint Louis Literary Award Committee (2023–) · Yeast! Conference co-organizer (2025) · Modern? Conference co-organizer (2024)

• Reading from Leaven at Secret Kingdoms, Madrid (2026)
• Interview on Vaughan Radio, Madrid (2026)
• 6th Annual Madrid MM Writer's Week (2025)
• Readings from Leaven at Saint Louis University (2025)
• Readings from Outside Athens, St. Louis Public Library (2024)
• 5th Annual Madrid MM Writer's Week (2024)
• Reading from Outside Athens, Secret Kingdoms, Madrid (2024)
• Porto Book Fair, Porto (2024)
• Interview with The Madrid Review (2024)
• The American University of Paris (2024)
• Interview in Adelaide Literary Magazine (2024)
• Secret Kingdoms Bookstore, Madrid (2023)
• Vaughan Radio, Madrid (2023)
• La Realidad, Madrid (2023)
• Interview with Adelaide Magazine, New York (2021)
• Workshop with Serve the City, Madrid (2020)
• Interview with Madrid Cosmopolitan (2020)
• Interview with Chef Digital, Madrid (2020)
• Interview with Naked Madrid, Madrid (2020)
• Two Harbors Public Library, Two Harbors, MN (2019)
• Two Harbors Public Radio, Two Harbors, MN (2019)
• The Village Tap Room, Madrid (2019)
• Interview with Vaughan Radio, Madrid (2019)
• Creative Writing Workshop at IE University, Madrid (2019)
• Interview on Canal Cocina (2016)
• Regular Contributor, The Nervous Breakdown (2008–2012)
• Regular Contributor, Vaya Madrid online culture magazine (2012–2014)