Curriculum Vitae
Summary
Jon Thompson, Professor Emeritus
I--Degrees
B.A. University College, Dublin
M.A. University College, Dublin
Ph.D. LSU
II--Books
The Distances (Shearsman Books, 2024)
Notebook of Last Things (Shearsman Books, 2019)
Strange Country (Shearsman Books, 2016)
Landscape with Light (Shearsman Books, 2014)
After Paradise: Essays on the Fate of American Writing (Shearsman, 2009)
Pictures of the Floating World (Expanded edition, Parlor Press, 2007)
Fiction, Crime and Empire (University of Illinois Press 1993)
The Distances (Shearsman Books, 2024)
Notebook of Last Things (Shearsman Books, 2019)
Strange Country (Shearsman Books, 2016)
Landscape with Light (Shearsman Books, 2014)
After Paradise: Essays on the Fate of American Writing (Shearsman, 2009)
Pictures of the Floating World (Expanded edition, Parlor Press, 2007)
Fiction, Crime and Empire (University of Illinois Press 1993)
III--Poetry
Individual poems published in American Literary Review, Blackbox Manifold, The Common,Colorado Review, Conjunctions online, Carolina Quarterly, Conduit, Cue, Cutbank, Drunken Boat, Fascicle, Hayden's Ferry Review,Quarterly West, Third Coast, Horizon Review, Interim, Iowa Review, Jacket 2,Matter, New American Writing, Quiddity, Vallum Magazine, Shearsman Magazine, The White Review, New Ohio Review, 1913: A Journal of Forms and elsewhere.
Individual poems published in American Literary Review, Blackbox Manifold, The Common,Colorado Review, Conjunctions online, Carolina Quarterly, Conduit, Cue, Cutbank, Drunken Boat, Fascicle, Hayden's Ferry Review,Quarterly West, Third Coast, Horizon Review, Interim, Iowa Review, Jacket 2,Matter, New American Writing, Quiddity, Vallum Magazine, Shearsman Magazine, The White Review, New Ohio Review, 1913: A Journal of Forms and elsewhere.
IV-- Essays
Essays in journals such as Identity Theory, Massachusetts Review, Genre, Literature and History and Works and Days
Introduction to D.H. Lawrence's Studies in Classic American Literature (Shearsman, 2011)
Essays in journals such as Identity Theory, Massachusetts Review, Genre, Literature and History and Works and Days
Introduction to D.H. Lawrence's Studies in Classic American Literature (Shearsman, 2011)
V--Editorial Work
Founding editor of the international, online journal, Free Verse: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry & Poetics (launched in 2001, and as of 2021 transferred to the University of Kent)
Founding editor of Free Verse Editions (a single-author poetry series launched in 2005, published by Parlor Press)
Founding editor of Illuminations: A Series on American Poetics (launched in 2018)
Founding editor of the international, online journal, Free Verse: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry & Poetics (launched in 2001, and as of 2021 transferred to the University of Kent)
Founding editor of Free Verse Editions (a single-author poetry series launched in 2005, published by Parlor Press)
Founding editor of Illuminations: A Series on American Poetics (launched in 2018)
VI--Interests
Poetry; the lyric essay; authorship; the fate of American writing; literary writing on violence; poetry and the visual arts.
VII--Teaching
I am now Professor Emeritus at North Carolina State University and only teaching for limited durations by request. When I was teaching full-time, I taught 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
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 Special Topic Courses
The Lyric: Tradition and Experiment
Poetry and the Visual Arts: A Workshop on Ekphrasis
Poetry; the lyric essay; authorship; the fate of American writing; literary writing on violence; poetry and the visual arts.
VII--Teaching
I am now Professor Emeritus at North Carolina State University and only teaching for limited durations by request. When I was teaching full-time, I taught 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
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 Special Topic Courses
The Lyric: Tradition and Experiment
Poetry and the Visual Arts: A Workshop on Ekphrasis