Prof. Dr. Timothy Ryan Day

Timothy Ryan Day is a writer and scholar at Saint Louis University-Madrid Campus whose work examines Shakespeare, early modern science, biosemiotics, and the intersections of technology and embodiment. He has published or upcoming work in The Metacritic Journal, Green Letters, Ecozon@, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, The Journal of Brewery History, The Journal of Literature and Science, as well as chapters in edited collections. He is the author of Shakespeare and the Evolution of the Human Umwelt: Adapt, Interpret, Mutate and the novels Big Sky, Outside Athens, and Leaven.

RCC Project: The Leavening Word: Shakespear, Microbes, and Re-Imagining the Artificial (PDF, 77 KB)

Selected Publications:

• “Hereafter the Kneading: Shakespeare, Symbiosis, and Yeast.” Metacritic: Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory (forthcoming).
• “Proud Cedars, Mutinous Winds: Coriolanus, the Microbiome, and Artificial Intelligence.” Journal of Literature and Science (forthcoming).
• “Swallow’d with Yeast and Froth: Shakespeare and Fermentation.” Brewery History. Special issue, “Conceptualizing Yeasts,” edited by Nathan Smith (forthcoming).
• “The Wildest Stock.” In Food and Literature, edited by Jeff Birkenstein. Modern Language Association, forthcoming.
• “Immortal Codes: Genetics, Ghosts, and Shakespeare’s Sonnets.” Interdisciplinary Science Research 48, no. 3 (2023): 545–58, https://doi.org/10.1080/03080188.2023.21937.
• “The Forest for the Trees: Richard Powers’ The Overstory, Macbeth, and the Holobiont.” Ecozon@ 13, no. 2 (2022): 119–38, https://doi.org/10.37536/ECOZONA.2022.13.2.4398.