Alex E. Blazer

I am an Assistant Professor of English at Georgia College & State University. After studying literature and photography at Denison University, I earned a Ph.D. in twentieth-century literature and critical theory at The Ohio State University. I previously taught at the University of Louisville and Grand Valley State University.

 

My poetry scholarship focused on the relationship between critical theory and American poetry in the 1970s and 1980s. My research on the contemporary American novel examines the relationship between postmodern culture and existential madness.

 

I teach a wide variety of courses in composition, writing about literature, poetry, drama, critical theory (particularly existentialism and psychoanalysis), and twenty- and twenty-first century American literature (particularly the postmodern novel and contemporary poetry).

 

Quote of the Month

Madness is a reality, not a perversion.

Kathy Acker. Great Expectations. New York: Grove, 1982. p119. / previous

 

Link of the Month

The Audacity of Despair: David Simon / previous

 

Pedagogy of the Depressed

Michael Shannon Reads the Insane Delta Gamma Sorority Letter / previous

 

Publications