Career and Editing
York worked as an Associate Professor at the University of Colorado Denver, where he was an editor for "Copper Nickel", a nationally recognized student literary journal he also helped found. In the Spring of 2011, York was the Richard B. Thomas Visiting Professor of Creative Writing at Kenyon College. During the 2011-2012 academic year, he was a Visiting Faculty Scholar at Emory University's James Weldon Johnson Institute for the Study of Race and Difference.
In addition, York served as a founding editor for storySouth and as a contributing editor for Shenandoah. He also founded the online journal Thicket, which focused on Alabama literature.
In 2005, when fiction writer Brad Vice was accused of plagiarism in his short story collection The Bear Bryant Funeral Train, York took the lead in defending the author. Vice was accused of plagiarizing part of one of his stories from the 1934 book Stars Fell on Alabama by Carl Carmer. However, York noted that Vice had allowed the short story and the similar section from Carmer's original book to be published side by side in York's literary journal Thicket. To York, this action by Vice "implicitly acknowledges the relationship (and) allows the evidence to be made public." York added that doing this allowed the readers to enter the "intertextual space in which (Vice) has worked" and that what Vice was doing with his story was allusion, not plagiarism. York also stated that, according to his own analysis of Vice's story and Carmer's source material, Vice did not break copyright law.
York's view was proven correct when Vice's collection was republished two years later. York also wrote one of the introductions to this new edition of The Bear Bryant Funeral Train.
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