English Faculty Profiles, MTSU

Member, Graduate Faculty

B.A., 1979, Southeastern Louisiana University; M.A., 1982, University of Mississippi; Ph.D., 1996, Georgia State University. (1996)

Office: PH 365; Phone/Voice Mail: 898-2074

Dr. Cain teaches courses in composition, war and literature, European literature, and Victorian literature. His book on Bram Stoker is forthcoming from McFarland.

See Publications

Conference Presentations

“Pietas in Green: the Iconic Representation of Combat Medics in the Films of Kubrick, Spielberg, and Malick,” 26th Annual Conference on Film and Literature, Tallahassee, FL.
10/5/00, “Terrence Malick’s The Thin Red Line and James Jones’s Theory of the Evolution of a Soldier,” Popular Culture Association in the South, Nashville, TN.
6/1/00,“`Writing in his musical key’: Terrence Malick’s Vision of James Jones’s The Thin Red Line,” World War II after 60 Years, 15th Annual Multidisciplinary Conference on World War II, Siena College, Loudonville, NY.
1/27/00, “Where Novels Conjoin,” 25th Annual Conference on Literature and Film, Tallahassee, FL.
1/29/99, “The Influence of the Crimean War on Bram Stoker’s novel Dracula,” 24th Annual Conference on Film and Literature, Tallahassee, FL.
1/31/00, “Racism and the Vampire: the Anti-Slavic Premise of Bram Stoker’s Dracula,” 23rd Annual Conference on Film and Literature, Tallahassee, FL.
5/11/98, “The Lady of the Shroud: Projecting Britain’s Balkan Desires,” 68th Annual South Atlantic Modern Language Association Convention, Atlanta, GA.
15/11/97, “With the Unspeakables: Tourism, Racism, and Imperialism in Bram Stoker’s Dracula,” Snapshots from Abroad: A Conference on American and British Travel Writers and Writing, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN.
8/16/97, “Dracula and Russophobia,” Dracula 97: A Centennial Celebration of the publication of Bram Stoker’s novel, Los Angeles, CA.
3/21/97, “Comus: the Measure of Plato’s Ideal of Love,” 1997 South Central Renaissance Conference, Austin, TX.
3/22/96, “Woman as Redeemer in Paradise Lost, Samson Agonistes, and Paradise Regained,” 1996 Regional Central and South Central Renaissance Conferences, St. Louis, MO.
10/11/96, “No Place for Literature in Freshman Composition,” 66th Annual South Atlantic Modern Language Association Convention, Savannah, GA.