Nathan Valle

Biography

A graduate of Liberty University, Dr. Nathan Valle currently serves as Assistant Professor of English and as the Zeta Tau chapter advisor for Sigma Tau Delta. His research and teaching interests include sports literature, Latino Literature, Modernism, sports studies, and cultural studies.

Recent Publications

“Henry W. Shaw – Josh Billings,” American Political Humor: Masters of Satire and Their Impact on U.S. Policy and Culture. Ed. Joey Baumgartner. ABC-CLIO. 2019.

“Baseball and the Gentle People within Irwin Shaw’s Short Fiction.” Baseball and Class: Essays on the Democratic Game That Isn’t. Eds. Ronald Kates and Warren Tormey. McFarland. 2012.

Recent Presentations

“How We Understand the Ballpark: Irwin Shaw’s Short Fiction and the Gentle People as Empathetic Framework.” Baylor University. Conference on Faith and History 32nd Biennial Meeting. Waco, TX. April 2022.

 “Walker Percy’s Confessional Dialectic and Suffering Secularization.” South Atlantic Modern Language Association Conference 93. Virtual Conference. November 2021.

 “The Space between Our Selves: Walker Percy’s Theories of Language and Charles Taylor.” Harvard University. Christianity and Literature International Conference. Boston, MA. March 2019.

Research Interests:

• Sports Literature
• Cultural Studies
• Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century American Literature
• Religion and Literature
• Modernism
• Theory and Criticism

Recent Courses Taught

• Writing as Cultural Engagement
• Modernism
• Children’s Literature
• Latino Literature
• American Literature (to 1865)
• Research Studies
• Composition and Rhetoric
• Cultural Studies
• Research and Theology