Scott Yarbrough
Vice President for Student Success and Compliance
About Scott Yarbrough
Scott D. Yarbrough earned his BA and MA in English at Florida State (emphasis on writing) and a PhD in American Literature at Alabama, where he focused on the novel, American Literature, modernism, and southern literature. He has taught in the English Department since 1997 and served as chair from 2003-2017. He is currently the Associate Vice President of Academic Affairs for Compliance, Retention, and Graduate Studies. He is the co-author of A Practical Introduction to Literary Study and co-editor to the two volumes of The Road in the Cormac McCarthy Casebook Series (Carrying the Fire). He has published articles and chapters on McCarthy, Hemingway, Faulkner and Billy Collins, among others, and has published fiction in a variety of venues. He was the 2008 South Carolina Arts Commission Prose Fellow and was the president of South Atlantic Modern Language Association in 2017. He and his wife Leigh live in Mt. Pleasant with their two daughters (Marie and Eleanor) and their two bad dogs.
"Your Purpose. Our mission. That means we do everything we can to enable students to think critically, to read well and abundantly, to engage them in the scientific process, and in doing so we thus empower them to discern for themselves the purpose God has laid out for them."
Awards
Finalist, Excellence in Teaching Award, Charleston Southern University, Spring 2012
South Carolina Arts Commission Prose Fellow, Fall 2006-Spring 2008.
Tennessee Williams Scholar, Sewanee Writers' Conference, July 2004.
Winner, Excellence in Teaching Award, Charleston Southern University, 2002.
Finalist, Excellence in Teaching Award, Charleston Southern University, 2001.
South Carolina Academy of Authors Fellow, 2000.
Faculty Merit Award, Charleston Southern University, 1999.
Strickland Scholar, University of Alabama, 1992-96.
Signature Experiences
Editorial Board, Cormac McCarthy Journal; member, Cormac McCarthy Society; Hemingway Society; South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA)
South Atlantic Modern Language Society (SAMLA) Executive Committee President, 2017
South Atlantic Modern Language Society (SAMLA) Executive Committee 1st Vice President, 2016, and 2nd Vice President, 2015
Editorial Board, Cormac McCarthy Journal, Spring 2014-present
Reader/Reviewer, Cormac McCarthy Journal, Spring 2009-14.
South Atlantic Modern Language Association, Nominating Committee, 2010-2013.
South Atlantic Modern Language Society (SAMLA) Executive Committee, Spring 2007-Spring 2010.
Fiction Editor, storySouth, Fall 2004-Spring 2007.
Recent Scholarly Work & Publications
As Editor: Carrying the Fire: Cormac McCarthy's The Road and the Apocalyptic Tradition Volumes I and II, Ed. Rick Wallach and Scott Yarbrough, Casebook Studies in Cormac McCarthy, Cormac McCarthy Society.
Textbook: A Practical Introduction to Literary Study, with James S. Brown. Prentice Hall. December 2004.
"Suburban South: The Novels of Inman Majors," forthcoming in New South: Region and Class in Recent Southern Literature, ed. Jean W. Cash and Richard Gaughran, U. Press of Mississippi.
"Appropriations of Hemingway in Film," forthcoming in Approaches to Teaching Hemingway and Film, eds. Marc Dudley, Cam Cobb, Modern Language Association Press.
"The Road, Consumerism, and Consumption" forthcoming in Approaches to Teaching Cormac McCarthy's The Road, ed. Stacey Peebles, Modern Language Association Press.
"Cormac McCarthy and the South," chapter, in Cormac McCarthy in Context, ed. Stephen Frye, Cambridge University Press, 2020, pp. 13-23.
"Guilty Pleasures: Faulkner, McCarthy, and Pop Culture," The South Atlantic Review, Fall 2018, pp. 1-16.
The Education of Henry: Politics and Context in Hemingway's Spanish Civil War Stories" in Imagining Spain: 21st Century Essays on Hemingway and Spain, ed. Carl Eby and Mark Cirino, Kent State University Press, 2015.
"The Road, Science Fiction, and the Apocalypse Genre," forthcoming in Carrying the Fire: Cormac McCarthy's The Road and the Apocalyptic Tradition Volume II, Ed. Rick Wallach. Casebook Studies in Cormac McCarthy, McFarland Press.
"Grandad's Old Thumb-Buster: Western Iconography and Weapons in All the Pretty Horses." Beyond Borders: Cormac McCarthy's All the Pretty Horses. Ed. Rick Wallach. Casebook Studies in Cormac McCarthy. 2014.
"A Man who Likes Some Eggs with his Pepper: The Varying Roles of Lacey Rawlins." Beyond Borders: Cormac McCarthy's All the Pretty Horses. Ed. Rick Wallach. Casebook Studies in Cormac McCarthy. 2014.
"Walker Percy and McCarthy: The Intertextual McCarthy." The Southern Literary Journal 45.2 (Spring 2013).
"Tricksters and Lightbringers in McCarthy's Post-Appalachian Novels," in The Cormac McCarthy Journal, Spring 2013.
"Billy Collins' 'The Night House'" in The Explicator, Summer 2010.
"Faulkner and Water Imagery in Barton Fink" in The Faulkner Journal, Spring 2001.
"Temple Drake as Femme Fatale" in The Southern Literary Journal, Summer 1999.