For Thursday 02/06/25, the campus will be closed until 12 noon today due to the severe weather. All classes scheduled after 12 noon will take place as scheduled. Students should check Canvas for details on classes.
Paul Jaussen received his Ph.D. in English with a joint Ph.D. in Theory and Criticism from the University of Washington in 2010. His research focuses on poetry and poetics, literary theory and criticism, modernism, contemporary literature, and the relationship between literature and technology. His first book, Writing in Real Time: Emergent Poetics from Whitman to the Digital (Cambridge UP, 2017), uses systems theory as a model for interpreting long poetry across historical periods, ranging from Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass to contemporary works by Nathaniel Mackey and Rachel Blau DuPlessis. With Mary Balkun and Jeffrey Gray, he edited A Companion to American Poetry (Wiley-Blackwell, 2022).His recent essays have been dedicated to contemporary poetry’s forensic aesthetics, the relationship between systems theory and the theory of literary form, spectrality and the transhistorical literary catalogue, and the use of hypothetical focalization in William Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom! These and other works have appeared or are forthcoming in New Literary History, Criticism, Comparative Literature, Journal of Foreign Languages and Cultures, Chicago Review, and ASAP/J, among others. With Dr. Franco Delogu, he co-directs the Humanity+Technology lecture series at LTU, which has received funding support from the Michigan Humanities Council.
Currently, Dr. Jaussen is working on a second book, tentatively entitled Contemporary Poetry and the Aesthetics of Breaking Worlds.
Dr. Jaussen regularly teaches courses in world literature, modern poetry, literary theory, and literature and technology.
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