^The Coen Brothers
& American Roots Music

Biography

Dr. Jesse Gerlach Ulmer teaches writing, literature, and film courses as part of the Liberal Arts & Sciences Program at VCUarts Qatar, where he also directs the university's Honors Program. He earned a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature at Minnesota State University Moorhead, a Master of Arts in English Literature at Virginia Commonwealth University, and a Doctor of Philosophy in English Literature & Criticism at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. His research interests include various topics within American literature, literature into film, American film, film music, honors education, and teaching English abroad.

He has received several faculty leadership awards. Most recently, Jesse was awarded a VCUQatar Distinguished Achievement Faculty Award for Service.

Select Publications

"Same Same, But Different:" Trans-nationalizing Honors in a U.S. Branch Campus." Internationalizing Honors, edited by Mary Kay Mulvaney and Kim Klein, National Collegiate Honors Council Monograph Series, 2020.

"Shane and the Language of Men." Arcadia: International Journal of Literary Culture. vol. 53, no. 1, 2018, pp. 72-88.

"'Just like a Fly in a Pan of Molasses': Farming the Midwest in Hamlin Garland’s Main-Travelled Roads." Midwest Quarterly. vol. 58, no. 3, 2017, pp. 318-32.

The Donkey Lady and Other Tales from the Arabian Gulf, edited by Patty Paine, Jesse Gerlach Ulmer, and Michael Hersrud, Berkshire Academic Press, 2012.

Select Presentations

"‘Same Same, But Different:’ Trans-nationalizing Honors in a U.S. Branch Campus." National Collegiate Honors Council Conference, 8 Nov., 2019, Sheraton New Orleans, New Orleans, LA, USA.

"The Music of Noah Hawley’s Fargo." 2018 Southwest Popular/American Culture Association Conference, 2 Feb. 2018, Hyatt Regency Hotel, Albuquerque, NM, USA.

"'Let us make beautiful music together:’ the music of The Ladykillers." Music and the Moving Image Conference, 27 May 2017, New York University, New York, NY, USA.

"Hell, they ain’t even ol’ timey!:" O Brother, Where Art Thou? and the Politics of Old-Timiness." Society for Cinema & Media Studies Conference, 26 March 2015, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

"No Country for Some Men." Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Conference, 19 April 2014, Chicago, IL, USA.

"Shane and The Language of Men." Southwest Popular/American Culture Association Conference, 21 Feb. 2014, Albuquerque, NM, USA.