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John Burt
 
Professor; Department Chair
Ph.D., Yale University

 
Rabb 206
office hours:
burt @ brandeis.edu
781-736-2158

 
• see also: John Burt's web page
 

Research Interests
19th-Century American Literature, 20th-Century American Literature (especially poetry), Southern Gothic Fiction, American Romantic Fiction, composition, rhetoric

Selected Publications
Victory
Turning Point Press, 2007

Selected Poems of Robert Penn Warren, editor.
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Press, 2002

 
The Collected Poems of Robert Penn Warren, editor.
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Press, 1998.

 
Work Without Hope. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996.
 
Robert Penn Warren and American Idealism. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1988.
 
The Way Down. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1988.

Articles and poetry in ELH, Yale Review, Poetry Miscellany, Chicago Review, Shenandoah, and other journals.


Selected Awards

Fellowship from the Newhouse Humanities Center at Wellesley College, 2006-07


Selected Courses Taught
American Gothic & American Romance (ENG 177a)
Fiction of the American South (ENG 207b)
American Realism & Naturalism (ENG 126a)
Romanticism II: Byron, Shelley & Keats (ENG 125b)


this page updated June 17, 2008