About Prof. Todd

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Email: proftod@gmail.com

Todd is a writer, at home and at work. In the past, Todd worked as Director of the Digital Humanities at Wilberforce University; he spent much of his early career at Defiance College where he was a Director of Composition. Having taught and/or published in the areas of the digital humanities, art, music, television, film, experimental fiction, comics, and radical politics, he is best understood as a teacher and scholar of cultural studies.

He is currently writing an essay on disability and Appalachian identity for a collection edited by Kendra Winchester (University Press of Kentucky). Todd has completed two as-of-yet unpublished collections of poetry: A Weekend Rot and Other Poems and Mary and Etta: Appalachian Poems, focused on the region of Appalachia where he was born. His poem, “A Late Night Frittata on Lancaster Street,” was published in the online edition of the Appalachian Journal (Sept. 15, 2025). “While At Eyecare Associates, My Dead Mother Walks In” will be published in Northern Appalachia Review (March 2026).

Todd read from his collection, Mary and Etta, at the Appalachian Literary Arts & Storytelling Festival in 2024. He presented “The Juggler and the Pugilist: Two Marietta Icons Consider Life in the Pandemic” at the NCTE conference (2023). In 2022, Todd presented a paper on disability in Wall-E at the MWPCA’s annual conference. In 2020, Todd, with Dr. Christine Junker, co-edited a double issue for Studies in the Humanities focused on the intersection of disability studies and ecocriticism.