Jeff Fields McCormack

Graduate Assistant Teacher of Record

Educational Experience

• Ph.D., English, East Texas A&M University, in progress
• M.A., English, East Texas A&M University, 2021
• B.A., English, East Texas Baptist University, 2020

Professional Experience

• August 2024 – present, Graduate Assistant Teacher of Record (GAToR), Department of Literature and Languages, East Texas A&M University (formerly Texas A&M University – Commerce)
• June 2024 – August 2024, Assistant Director (Graduate Assistant Researcher), Writing Center, Texas A&M University – Commerce
• November 2023 – May 2024, Student Support Services Specialist, Student Support Services Center, Texas College
• October 2021 – December 2021, Adjunct Instructor of Developmental English, Kilgore College

Select Publications

• McCormack, Jeff Fields. (Forthcoming). “Transformations Are Not Always Beautiful.” In Legends of Nights Drabbles #5: Shifted. Black Ink Fiction.
• McCormack, Jeff Fields. (Forthcoming). “The Beast Within.” In Legends of Night Drabbles #5: Shifted. Black Ink Fiction.
• McCormack, Jeff Fields. (2024). “The Duality of the Samurai.” In We Were Warriors: Samurai (pp. 140). Black Ink Fiction.
• McCormack, Jeff Fields. (2023). First-Person Fear: Bram Stoker's Mastery of Descriptions in Dracula. The Journal of Popular Culture 56 (1), pp. 191 – 202. https://doi.org/10.1111/jpcu.13189.

Scholarships and Awards

• 2025 Group Conference Attendance Scholarship, South Central Writing Centers Association. Awarded for “Writing Centers are Watching: Surveillance, Colonialism, and Data Tracking.”
• 2022 William E. Brigman Award for Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Presented at the National Conference, Popular Culture Association. Awarded for “First-Person Fear: Bram Stoker's Mastery of Descriptions in Dracula.”
• 2022 Resurrecting Dracula Award, PCA/ACA Vampire Studies Area. Awarded for “FirstPerson Fear: Bram Stoker's Mastery of Descriptions in Dracula.”

Professional Associations

• May 2023 – present, member, Chapter 322, Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society, East Texas A&M University
• November 2021 – December 2024, member, Popular Culture Association / American Culture Association (PCA/ACA)