Graduate Student, English and American Literature
Ph.D. Candidate (ABD), Teaching Fellow
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Thesis Title: “The Immaculate Disclosure of the Secret”: Performance, Esoteric Thought, and the Gothic in Modernist Negotiations of the Real
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John Burt
David Sherman |
About
To condense the list of research interests a bit, I'll say my work falls at the intersection of the following:
Modernism; poetry and poetics; Gothic and irreal fiction; the supernatural and the paranormal; performance theory; divination; esoteric studies; consciousness studies; queer theory; philosophy and literature; dialogues between the modern and the pre-modern.
My dissertation is as much a work of theory as it is of literary criticism; the phrase "speculative poetics" is, I think, a useful way of viewing what I'm doing in it. Think Allen Grossman meets queer theory and divination in the middle of a haunted house, and these collide with Harold Bloom in a Kabbalistic mood. It is much less like Abbott and Costello than it sounds.
Contact Information
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| Address: | Cambridge, MA |
| IM: | Skype: daniel.donatacci; Yahoo! Messenger: penpiano; AIM: Penpiano1 |
