Dr. Jason Ney

Biography and Professional Achievements

Dr. Jason Ney grew up in Pennsylvania and has lived in Colorado since 2010, when he began his Ph.D. work at the University of Denver. His dissertation focused on ethical issues within the genre of Creative Nonfiction, with particular attention paid to the intersection of truth and memory. Before joining the CCU faculty in 2013 as both an English professor and the Director of the Writing Center, he taught at the University of Cincinnati and the University of Denver.

Dr. Ney's graduate coursework and teaching experience at CCU covers Composition, the Writing Center, and all eras of American literature. His favorite course to teach is Advanced Creative Nonfiction Writing; students who have taken the course have produced essays published in The 3288 Review, The Baltimore Review, Bloodletters Literary Magazine, HerStory, Midwestern Gothic, and The Mindful Word. Dr. Ney's also works as a film noir scholar and critic and co-runs CCU’s annual film series with Professor Bernie Prokop.

Publications

• “Sinner’s Prayer.” How to Pack for Church Camp. July 2018.
• Film Reviews: “The Big Combo, The Dark Mirror, Force of Evil, Secret Beyond the Door.” Noir City. San Francisco: FNF. Volume 12, No. 1. Spring 2018.
• "Until It Hurts." The Kindness of Strangers: A Wising Up Anthology. Wising Up Press: Decatur, GA. December 2016.
• Film Reviews: "Count the Hours, No Questions Asked, Stakeout on Dope Street." Noir City. San Francisco: FNF. Volume 11, No. 1. Summer 2016.
• Film Reviews: "The Big Sleep, Key Largo." Noir City. San Francisco: FNF. Volume 10, No. 4. Spring 2016.
• Film Reviews: "Beat the Devil, Hollow Triumph." Noir City. San Francisco: FNF. Volume 10, No. 3. Winter 2016.
• Noir City Annual #8: The Best of the Film Noir Foundation's Quarterly Magazine. San Francisco: FNF. January 2016. (An anthology that includes my reviews of "Ride the Pink Horse, Witness to Murder, World for Ransom, The Bride Wore Black, and He Ran All the Way.")
• Film Reviews: "The Clay Pigeon, He Ran All the Way, House of Bamboo, Riff Raff, Storm Fear." Noir City. San Francisco: FNF. Volume 10, No. 2. Fall 2015.
• Film Reviews: "Cover Up, Once a Thief, The Shanghai Story, The Whistler." Noir City. San Francisco: FNF. Volume 10, No. 1. Summer 2015.
• "Recovery." Fiction Attic Press. Summer 2015.
• "The First 'Funny Papers' Film: Dick Tracy at RKO." Noir City. San Francisco: FNF. Volume 9, No. 4. Spring 2015.
• "The Original Tess Trueheart: A Conversation with Anne Jeffreys." Noir City. San Francisco: FNF. Volume 9, No. 4. Spring 2015.
• Film Reviews: "The Bride Wore Black, Ride the Pink Horse, The Weapon, World for Ransom." Noir City. San Francisco: FNF. Volume 9, No. 4. Spring 2015.
• Noir City Annual #7: The Best of the Film Noir Foundation's Quarterly Magazine. San Francisco: FNF. January 2015. (An anthology that includes "Dark City High: The Neo-Noir of Brick and Veronica Mars.")
• Film Reviews: "Bait, The Girl on the Bridge, Possessed, Witness to Murder." Noir City. San Francisco: FNF. Vol. 9, No. 3. Winter 2015.
• "(de)tales: The List." Little Did She Know. Fall 2014.
• Film Reviews: "The Bigamist, Caught, Hollow Triumph, The Hunted, Incident." Noir City. San Francisco: FNF. Volume 9, No. 2. Fall 2014.
• Film Review: "Swerve." Noir City. San Francisco: FNF. Volume 9, No. 1. Summer 2014.
• "Dark City High: The High School Noir of Brick and Veronica Mars." Noir City. San Francisco: FNF. Volume 8, No. 3. Spring 2014.
• "Keith Mars, Revived: A Conversation with Enrico Colantoni." Noir City. San Francisco: FNF. Volume 8, No. 3. Spring 2014.
• Noir City Annual #6: The Bestof the Film Noir Foundation's Quarterly Magazine. San Francisco: FNF. January 2014. (An anthology that includes "The Forgotten Man.")
• "Dark Roots: Christopher Nolan and Noir." Noir City. San Francisco: FNF. Volume 8, No. 1. Summer 2013.
• "Avatar of Future Noir: An Interview with Warren Hammond." Noir City. San Francisco: FNF. Volume 8, No. 1. Summer 2013.
• "The Forgotten Man: Richard Fleischer's RKO Years." Noir City. San Francisco: FNF. Volume 7, No. 4. Spring 2013.

Presentations

• "The Traveling Sign in the American West: A Semiotic Analysis of Robert Coover's Ghost Town." Rocky Mountain MLA Conference, University of Colorado: Boulder (2012).
• "Powerful, Gripping and Relentless: The Rhetorical Impact of Stephen Colbert and The Colbert Report." Composing Ourselves: A Graduate Conference in Literature, Composition and Rhetoric, University of Cincinnati (2010).
• "Out of the Puritan Past: Hawthorne's Use of Biblical Symbolism in 'Roger Malvin's Burial'." The Ohio Festival of the Short Story, Cincinnati, OH (2010).
• Invited Panelist: "How to Survive Graduate School." Topographies of Introspection, Cedarville University (2010).