About Prof. Todd

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Email: proftod@gmail.com

Todd is a writer, at home and at work. Todd (Ph.D in American literature and film) in the recent past 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 interdisciplinary scholar of cultural studies.

His essay, “Finding Myself Elsewhere: My Impaired, Appalachian Self,” will be published in 2027 in a collection edited by Kendra Winchester (Appalachian Disability Anthology, UP of Kentucky). Recently (2025-2026) published poems include: “A Late Night Frittata on Lancaster Street” (Appalachian Journal), “While At Eyecare Associates, My Dead Mother Walks In” (Northern Appalachia Review) and, forthcoming, “The Silence of Rockford Chapel” (Friends Journal).

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 and ecocriticism 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. 

Todd has completed two as-of-yet unpublished poetry collections: A Weekend Rot and Other Poems and Mary and Etta: Appalachian Poems.