Justin Russell Greene

Justin Russell Greene is an instructor in the Composition Program in the Department of English at Virginia Tech. He is a graduate of the interdisciplinary Media, Art, and Text PhD program at Virginia Commonwealth University. His dissertation, I Am an Author: Performing Authorship in Literary Culture, analyzes authorship as a social identity performance through an interdisciplinary framework. His work pulls from authorship studies, performance studies, celebrity/persona studies, media and cultural studies, and sociological studies of art to uncover how writers create and disseminate their authorial identities. In his teaching, Justin themes his writing courses around the performance of masculinity across popular culture. He has published articles on Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight, Tao Lin and his Twitter presence, and Roxane Gay’s digital identity, as well as presented papers analyzing authors’ fashions, Twitter, Instagram, and Kanye and Kim Kardashian West.