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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.

Faculty + Staff

Office: Science Building, S225
Dr. Paul
Jaussen
Department Chair + Associate Professor

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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Use Your Cell Phone as a Document Camera in Zoom

  • What you will need to have and do
  • Download the mobile Zoom app (either App Store or Google Play)
  • Have your phone plugged in
  • Set up video stand phone holder

From Computer

Log in and start your Zoom session with participants

From Phone

  • Start the Zoom session on your phone app (suggest setting your phone to “Do not disturb” since your phone screen will be seen in Zoom)
  • Type in the Meeting ID and Join
  • Do not use phone audio option to avoid feedback
  • Select “share content” and “screen” to share your cell phone’s screen in your Zoom session
  • Select “start broadcast” from Zoom app. The home screen of your cell phone is now being shared with your participants.

To use your cell phone as a makeshift document camera

  • Open (swipe to switch apps) and select the camera app on your phone
  • Start in photo mode and aim the camera at whatever materials you would like to share
  • This is where you will have to position what you want to share to get the best view – but you will see ‘how you are doing’ in the main Zoom session.