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Humanities and Arts

Jim Cocola

Assistant Professor

Department: Humanities & Arts
Professional Page
Office: Salisbury Laboratories, 026
Phone: +1-508-831-5104
Fax: +1-508-831-5932
jcocola@wpi.edu

Educational Background

• A.B., Harvard College, 1998
• Ph.D, University of Virginia, 2009

Research & Teaching Interests

American literatures and cultures; poetry and poetics; film studies; media studies; visual studies; environmental literature; textual criticism; cultural studies; literary theory; pedagogy

Research

Current projects include: a work-in-progress on the imaginative making of place in modern and contemporary American poetry; a work-in-progress on electronic and digital mediations of modern and contemporary American poetry; a work-in-progress on the cultural and geographical dimensions of Italian American literature and film; and poetry manuscripts including a collection of lyric poems and an epic sequence.

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