Graduate Studies in English
M.A. Editorial Studies, Boston University
M.A. Creative Writing, Boston University
B.F.A. Writing, Literature, and Publishing, Emerson College
Dissertation Title:
“Between Pound and Pynchon: WWII and Postmodern Poetics” (working title)
Research Interests:
20th-century American Poetics: Modernism and Postmodernism, Creative Writing, New/Alternative Media Studies.
Select publications:
Poetry:
Full On Jabber. with Jess Mynes, The Martian Press, 2007
The Breaks. Fewer & Further Press, 2006
Claire Obscure. Katalanché Press, 2005
Ph.D. Student Profiles
Christopher RizzoM.A. Editorial Studies, Boston University
M.A. Creative Writing, Boston University
B.F.A. Writing, Literature, and Publishing, Emerson College
Dissertation Title:
“Between Pound and Pynchon: WWII and Postmodern Poetics” (working title)
Research Interests:
20th-century American Poetics: Modernism and Postmodernism, Creative Writing, New/Alternative Media Studies.
Select publications:
Poetry:
Full On Jabber. with Jess Mynes, The Martian Press, 2007
The Breaks. Fewer & Further Press, 2006
Claire Obscure. Katalanché Press, 2005
Select Conference Presentations:
- “‘Was That A Real Poem or Did You Just Make It Up Yourself?’: Countercultural American Poetics and the Post-Literary Condition,” EGSO Albany Conference,
University at Albany, NY, 2007 - “Words of One’s Own: Plagiarism, Citation, Textual Ownership, and Academic
Integrity,” panelist. Conference of the SUNY Council on Writing, SUNY Oswego, 2006
Select Teaching Experience:
- ENG 358: Studies in Poetry: “Literary Situations: Poetics and the Problem of the Authorial Self”
- ENG 261: American Literary Traditions: “New American Writing and the Problem of the Literary”
- ENG 102Z: Introduction to Creative Writing: “Poiesis: Theory, Practice, and the Strange Machines of Modernism”
- ENG 121: Reading Literature: “Innovative Structures: The Radical Poetics of American Modernism”
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