Ph.D. Student Profiles

Christopher Rizzo
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

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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