Author Bios

Timothy Ray is an associate professor of English at West Chester University of Pennsylvania, where he teaches a wide variety of undergraduate courses in rhetoric and writing, popular culture, counterculture, and digital culture. He has taught two senior seminars on the Grateful Dead, and he is currently working on developing an undergraduate general-education writing course about the Grateful Dead. He is a frequent presenter at the Grateful Dead Scholars Caucus at SWPACA, focusing particularly on the rhetorical aspects of the Grateful Dead and also on pedagogical approaches to teaching the Dead.

Julie DeLong is an independent scholar who has been both a presenter and an invited speaker at the Grateful Dead Scholars Caucus at SWPACA over the years. Her research interests include thematic analysis of the lyrics of the Grateful Dead, memento mori art, and the English sonnet tradition. She has used this research to develop pedagogy for English literature courses in her former career as a community college professor. Her research on how the Deadhead community has historically used the internet for subcultural recruitment has been featured on the official podcast of the Grateful Dead, the Good Ol’ Grateful Deadcast. She is the creator and host of the So Many Reads Grateful Dead Book Club, hosted on Zoom monthly.

Recommended Reference Citation

APA

Ray, T. & DeLong, J. (2022). “‘Bound to Cover Just a Little More Ground’: Teaching and Learning with the Grateful Dead”. Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy, 9(1 & 2). http://journaldialogue.org/issues/v9-issue-1-and-2/bound-to-cover-just-a-little-more-ground-teaching-and-learning-with-the-grateful-dead/.

MLA

Ray, Timothy and Julie DeLong. “‘Bound to Cover Just a Little More Ground’: Teaching and Learning with the Grateful Dead”. Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy, vol. 9, no. 1 & 2, 2022. http://journaldialogue.org/issues/v9-issue-1-and-2/bound-to-cover-just-a-little-more-ground-teaching-and-learning-with-the-grateful-dead/