C. Wylie Lenz

Associate Professor
C. Wylie Lenz

Phone 863-874-8565

Location Main Campus

Office IST-2064

Directory Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences

Dr. C. Wylie Lenz joined the faculty of 91Âé¶¹Ó³»­in 2014. He teaches courses in composition, professional and technical writing, literature, and humanities. In addition to general education courses, he has taught popular special topics classes on conspiracy theories and horror fiction and film. From 2018 to 2021, he served as the inaugural chair of the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences Department.

Lenz’s publications include articles, book chapters, and the edited collections Poverty in American Popular Culture: Essays on Representations, Beliefs and Policy and Generation Zombie: Essays on the Living Dead in Modern Culture (co-edited with Stephanie Boluk). He has also delivered dozens of presentations at regional, national, and international conferences.

  • Ph.D. in English, University of 91Âé¶¹Ó³»­, 2013
  • M.F.A in Creative Writing, University of 91Âé¶¹Ó³»­, 2007
  • B.A. in English, University of Houston, 2005
  • B.A. in History, University of Houston, 2003
  • B.A. in Philosophy, University of Houston, 1998
  • Writing
  • American literature
  • Horror fiction and film
  • Popular culture
  • “Undead, with an MFA: The Post-Genre Literary Zombie.†In The Post Zombie: The Current and Future State of the Walking Dead, edited by Lenz, Kyle William Bishop, and Angela Tenga. Forthcoming.
  • Co-editor, The Post Zombie: The Current and Future State of the Walking Dead. Forthcoming. Co-edited with Kyle William Bishop and Angela Tenga.
  • “Introduction: Poverty, Policy, Beliefs, and Popular Culture.†In , edited by Lenz, 1-24. McFarland, 2020.
  • Editor, . McFarland, 2020.
  • “Toward a Genealogy of the American Zombie Novel—From Jack London to Colson Whitehead.†In , edited by Kyle William Bishop and Angela Tenga, 98-119. McFarland, 2017.
  • “.â€Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies 10, no. 2 (Fall/Winter 2011): 127-148. Co-authored with Stephanie Boluk.
  • “Introduction: Generation Z—The Age of Apocalypse.†In Generation Zombie: Essays on the Living Dead in Modern Culture, edited by Stephanie Boluk and Wylie Lenz, 1-17. McFarland, 2011. Co-authored with Stephanie Boluk.
  • Co-editor, . McFarland, 2011. Co-edited with Stephanie Boluk.
  • “What David Knew.†Lumina5 (2006): 91-105.
  • “Nineteen.†In The Zine Yearbook: An Annual Collection of the Best Zines Publishing Today, Volume Six, edited by Jen Angel and Jason Kucsma, 99-101. Become the Media, 2002.

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