I Teaching Interests
I teach courses in twentieth-century/contemporary American and British literature with a special interest in poetry and poetics. Within that broad framework, I'm especially interested in the aspirations of lyricism, evolving notions of authorship, literary responses to violence, and the fate of American writing as it negotiates the internal pressures of American culture. (See my book of lyrical essays, After Paradise: Essays on the Fate of American Writing: Shearsman Books, 2009). The following is a cross-section of twentieth-century writers I'm especially interested in and teach (in random order): T.S. Eliot, James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, William Faulkner, Wallace Stevens, W.E.B. Dubois, Vladimir Nabokov, James Baldwin, Paul Celan, C.D. Wright, Susan Howe, Cormac McCarthy, Don DeLillo, George Oppen, Franz Wright, W.G. Sebald, William Carlos Williams, Gertrude Stein, Anne Carson, Maurice Blanchot, Michael Herr, Yusef Komunyakaa, Roland Barthes, D.H. Lawrence's poetry and criticism, Marianne Moore, Simon Ortiz, Peter Riley, Walter Abish, William H. Gass, Charles Tomlinson, Charles Wright, Harryette Mullen and Susan Sontag.
II Courses I Regularly Teach
ENG 372: Early Twentieth-Century Poetry
ENG 373: Late Twentieth-Century Poetry
ENG/FL 406: Modernism
ENG/407:Postmodernism
ENG 571: Twentieth-Century British Poetry
ENG 576: Twentieth-Century American Poetry
ENG 580: Literary Postmodernism
III Recent Special Topic Courses
The Lyric: Tradition and Experiment
Poetry and the Visual Arts: A Workshop on Ekphrasis
IV Courses I'm Developing
Place as Scene: Landscapes, Cityscapes and the Lyric Voice
I teach courses in twentieth-century/contemporary American and British literature with a special interest in poetry and poetics. Within that broad framework, I'm especially interested in the aspirations of lyricism, evolving notions of authorship, literary responses to violence, and the fate of American writing as it negotiates the internal pressures of American culture. (See my book of lyrical essays, After Paradise: Essays on the Fate of American Writing: Shearsman Books, 2009). The following is a cross-section of twentieth-century writers I'm especially interested in and teach (in random order): T.S. Eliot, James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, William Faulkner, Wallace Stevens, W.E.B. Dubois, Vladimir Nabokov, James Baldwin, Paul Celan, C.D. Wright, Susan Howe, Cormac McCarthy, Don DeLillo, George Oppen, Franz Wright, W.G. Sebald, William Carlos Williams, Gertrude Stein, Anne Carson, Maurice Blanchot, Michael Herr, Yusef Komunyakaa, Roland Barthes, D.H. Lawrence's poetry and criticism, Marianne Moore, Simon Ortiz, Peter Riley, Walter Abish, William H. Gass, Charles Tomlinson, Charles Wright, Harryette Mullen and Susan Sontag.
II Courses I Regularly Teach
ENG 372: Early Twentieth-Century Poetry
ENG 373: Late Twentieth-Century Poetry
ENG/FL 406: Modernism
ENG/407:Postmodernism
ENG 571: Twentieth-Century British Poetry
ENG 576: Twentieth-Century American Poetry
ENG 580: Literary Postmodernism
III Recent Special Topic Courses
The Lyric: Tradition and Experiment
Poetry and the Visual Arts: A Workshop on Ekphrasis
IV Courses I'm Developing
Place as Scene: Landscapes, Cityscapes and the Lyric Voice
Fall 2020 :: Course Materials
ENG 399: Contemporary Literature
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ENG 208: Studies in Fiction
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Handouts on Writing Critical Essays
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