Roiland, Josh

Assistant Professor

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Assistant Professor, English , College of Humanities, Social Sciences, and the Arts

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roilandj@uncw.edu

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Academic Article
- Teaching the 1898 Wilmington Massacre: Literary, Historical, and Archival Approaches. North Carolina Literary Review. 2023-10-01
- “Jonathan Richman Lays Low in the Midcoast”. DownEast Magazine. 85-86. 2018-06-01
- “Annotation Tuesday! (Back-to-School Edition) Josh Roiland and His ‘Literary Journalism in America’ Syllabus”. Nieman Storyboard. 2015-08-01
- “By Any Other Name: The Case for ‘Literary Journalism.’”. Literary Journalism Studies. 7:60-89. 2015-01-01
- “The Fine Print: Uncovering the True Story of David Foster Wallace and the ‘Reality Boundary’”. Literary Journalism Studies. 5:148-161. 2014-02-01
- “Why’s This So Good? No. 87: Hunter S. Thompson and the Kentucky Derby”. Nieman Storyboard. 2013-11-01
- “‘Just People’ are Just People: Langston Hughes and the Populist Power of African American Literary Journalism”. Literary Journalism Studies. 5:15-35. 2013-01-01
- Getting Away From It All: The Literary Journalism of David Foster Wallace and Nietzsche’s Concept of Oblivion”. Literary Journalism Studies. 1:89-105. 2009-01-01
Article
- “The Speaking Length”. Longreads. 2019-11-01
- “Something Like Springtime”. Popula. 2018-11-01
- “Derivative Sport: An Oral History of the Journalistic Legacy of David Foster Wallace”. Longreads. 10:175-197. 2017-12-01
- “Spiritually Midwestern: What Middle America Meant to David Foster Wallace”. A25 Films. 2017-08-01
- “A Shot in the Arm”. Longreads. 2017-02-01
Chapter
- “It Was Like Nothing Else in My Life Up to Now”. The Digital Press @ the University of North Dakota. 167-182. 2017-05-01
- “Getting Away From It All: The Literary Journalism of David Foster Wallace and Nietzsche’s Concept of Oblivion”. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press. 25-52. 2012-01-01
Document
- “Joan Didion’s Journey Through New Journalism and Personal Heartache; A Review of The Last Love Song: A Biography of Joan Didion”. Washington Post. 2015-08-01

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