Justin Russell Greene
Justin Greene, Advanced Instructor
Department of English
239 Shanks Hall
181 Turner St.
Blacksburg, VA 24061
jrgreene@vt.edu
Justin Russell Greene is an advanced instructor in the Department of English where he teaches classes in film, literature, and writing. He has published and presented on topics ranging from literary authors and fashion, writers’ digital presences, celebrity identities, and Quentin Tarantino.
- Authorship Studies
- Celebrity/Persona Studies
- Cultural Studies
- Media Studies
- Cinema Studies
- U.S. Modernist and Contemporary Literature
- Ph.D., Media, Art, and Text (MATX), Virginia Commonwealth University
- M.A. English with a concentration in Literary Studies, Virginia Commonwealth University
- B.A. English, Virginia Commonwealth University
Journal Articles
- “Dressing Up the Author: Jonathan Franzen and David Foster Wallace Branding Their Masculine Authorial Identities through Fashion,” Fashion, Style & Popular Culture, vol. 7, no. 4 (2020), 421-441.
- “Digitizing the Intersections: Roxane Gay's Online Performance of Authorial Identity,” Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies 15, no. 1 (2019), 1-27.
- “Tweeting the Author: Tao Lin’s Performance of Authorial Identity on Twitter.” Authorship 7, no. 1 (2018), 1-16.
- “Auteurist Socio-Cultural Critique: Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight as Historical Present.” The Projector: A Journal on Film, Media, and Culture 17, no. 2 (Summer 2017), 32-49.
Books
- The Performative Representations of Masculinity in Quentin Tarantino’s Cinema: All the Auteur’s Men. Lexington Books, 2023.
- CINE 2054: Introduction to Cinema
- ENGL 1105: First-Year Writing--Introduction to College Composition
- ENGL 1106: First-Year Writing--Writing from Research
- ENGL 1614: Introduction to Short Fiction
- ENGL 2634: Writing and Social Justice
- ENGL2664: Being Human
- ENGL 3544: Literature and Cinema
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