Faculty Guide

Title

Professor of English

American Studies
English

Expertise

American literature. Romanticism. Composition. Philosophy of education. Literature of the American South. Poetry. Interested in American poetry, in the way it faces questions of transcendence and value, identity and morality.

Profile

Examining 19th-century political oratory, asking how a political culture founded on dealmaking and compromise comes to terms with conflicts over moral issues where dealmaking and compromise seem to be easily discredited strategies.

Awards and Honors

Twenty Five Years of Service at Brandeis (2007)

Fellowship at the Newhouse Center for Humanities (2006)

Norman Grant (2006)

Ambassador Book Award, English-Speaking Union (1999)

Holman Prize, Society for the Study of Southern Literature, for The Collected Poems of Robert Penn Warren (1999)

Jules and Frances Landry Prize for The Collected Poems of Robert Penn Warren (1998)

American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship (1997)

John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship (1997)

American Philosophical Society Grant (1996)

Mazer Grant (1996)

Louis Dembitz Brandeis Prize for Excellence in Teaching (1994 - 1995)

Marver Bernstein Faculty Fellowship (1987)

Ingram Merrill Foundation Fellowship, to complete The Way Down (1986)

John A. Porter Fellowship (1982)

Mary Cady Tew Prize (1978)

C.B. Tinker Prize (1977)

Herson Scholarship (1977)

E.T. McLaughlin Prize (1976)

Courses Taught

ENG	1a	Introduction to Literary Studies
ENG	6a	American Literature in the Age of Lincoln
ENG	7a	American Literature from 1900 to 2000
ENG	10b	Poetry: A Basic Course
ENG	38b	Race, Region, and Religion in the Twentieth-Century South
ENG	46b	American Gothic Romantic Fiction
ENG	117b	Novels of William Faulkner
ENG	126a	American Realism and Naturalism, 1865-1900
ENG	207b	Fiction of the American South
ENG	236a	American Poetry of the Nineteenth Century
ENG	266a	Slavery and the American Imagination
HUM	10a	The Western Canon

Scholarship

Burt, John. ""The Passing of the Armies" (poem)." Measure (2009). (forthcoming)

Burt, John. "The Nashville Fugitives." Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics. 2009. (forthcoming)

Burt, John. "Purity, Panic, and Pasiphae in Brother to Dragons." Robert Penn Warren Studies (2005). (forthcoming)

Burt, John. "Robert Penn Warren." The Oxford Companion to American Literature., 2005 (forthcoming)

podcast: "A Lincoln for Our Time" New York Times Book Review podcast February 17, 2013. Burt, John. New York Times, 2013.

podcast: What Would Lincoln Do. Burt, John. WBUR's "On Point" with Tom Ashbrook, March 2, 2013, 2013.

Burt, John. "A Moral Evolution." Chicago Tribune, February 16, 2013 (2013): <http://articles.chicagotribune. com/2013-02-16/features/ct-prj-0217-lincoln-tragic-pragmatism-john-burt-2013021 1 emancipation-war-powers-slavery>.

Burt, John. "Edmargin 1.2." 2013 <ctan.tug.org>.

Burt, John. "Endheads 1.51." 2013 <ctan.tug.org>.

Burt, John. "Hypotaxis and Parataxis." The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics. 4th ed. 2013.

Burt, John. "Poemscol (version 2.62." 2013 <ctan.tug.org>.

Burt, John. "The Agrarian Movement." Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics. 4th ed. 2013.

Burt, John. "The Ever Deeper Ideal of Freedom." Harvard University Press blog (2013): <http://harvardpress.typepad.com/hup publicity/ 2013/02/the-ever-deeper-ideal-of-freedom-john-burt.html>.

Burt, John. "The Fugitive Circle." The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics. 4th ed. 2013.

Burt, John. "The Promise of Equality." Harvard University Press blog (2013): <http://harvardpress.typepad.com/hup publicity/2013/ 02/the-promise-of-equality-john-burt.ht>.

Burt, John. Lincoln's Tragic Pragmatism. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2013.

Burt, John. "Review of The Passage to Cosmos : Alexander von Humboldt and the shaping of America." Rev. of The Passage to Cosmos : Alexander von Humboldt and the shaping of America, by Walls, Laura Dassow. The Wordsworth Circle vol. vol.~42 no.~4 Autumn 2011: pp.~ 281-4..

Burt, John. "Edmargin: A Simple Design for Critical Editions with Multiple Endnote Series." 2009 <http://www.ctan.org>.

Burt, John. "Lincoln's Dred Scott: Contesting the Declaration of Independence." American Literary History special issue: Lincoln and Cultural Value 21. 4 (2009): 730--751.

Burt, John. "review of Selected Letters of Robert Penn Warren Vol.3: Triumph and Transition 1943--1952." Louisiana History 46. SUM-FAL (2008): 478-84.

Burt, John. "Purity, Panic and Pasiphae in Brother to Dragons." rWp: An Annual of Robert Penn Warren Studies 5. 1 (2007): 147--70.

Burt, John. "Robert Penn Warren's The Legacy of the Civil War and the Meaning of Pragmatism." American Literary History vol. 19. (2007): 964--996.

Burt, John. The Passing of the Armies (poem-- revised version) in H.R. Stoneback, ed., Homage to RPW: An Anthology of Poems of Robert Penn Warren. 2007. Roncesvaux Press, New Paltz, NY. (poem).

Burt, John. Victory. Cincinnati: Turning Point Press, 2007.

Burt, John. "Poemscol 2.52 Software for Typesetting Critical Editions of Poetry." 200

Burt, John. "Purity, Panic and Pasiphae in Brother to Dragons." Shawangunk Review xvii. 1 (2006): 4--23.

Burt, John. "Note on Uncertain Season in High Country." Southern Review 41. 2 (2005): 243--9.

Burt, John. "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Kingfish: essay-review of The Kingfish in Fiction by Keith Perry." Mississippi Quarterly 58. 4 (2005): 795--806.

Burt, John. "Using poemscol for Critical Editions of Poetry." The PracTeX Journal 5. (2005): <http://www.tug.org/pracjourn/>.

Burt, John. "Review of "Invisible Fences: Prose Poetry as a Genre in French and American Literature," by Steven Monte." Modern Philology 101. 3 (2004): 493-500.

Burt, John. "The Odyssey of Joel Barlow (Parts III, VI, and VII)." River City 4. 1 (2004): 27-33.

Burt, John. "1938," "Love and Fame," "What Ellen Said": republished in Words Brushed by Music: Selections from John Hopkins' Poetry and Fiction. John Hopkins University Press, 2004.

Burt, John. Selected Poems of Robert Penn Warren. Louisiana State University Press, 2001.

Burt, John. Victory at Sea: what are their names?. Edgewood, KY: R.L. Barth, 2001.

Burt, John. "Liberalism's Hope and Despair: Lincoln's Peoria Speech of 1854." Social Research 66. 2 (1999): 679-707.

Burt, John. After the Southern Renaissance. Cambridge University Press, 1999.

Burt, John. The Collected Poetry of Robert Penn Warren (A Critical Edition). Louisiana State University Press, 1998.

Burt, John. "Lincoln's Address to the Young Men's Lyceum: A Speculative Essay." Western Humanities Review 51. 3 (1997): 304-320.

Burt, John. Work Without Hope. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996.

Burt, John. "Tyranny and Faction." The Federalist XIII. 2 (1993): 56-84.

Burt, John. "Learning to Write: The Narrative of Frederick Douglass." Western Humanities Review XLII. 4 (1988): 330-344.

Burt, John. Robert Penn Warren and American Idealism. Yale University Press, 1988.

Burt, John. The Way Down (Poems). Princeton University Press, 1988.

Burt, John. "Flannery O'Connor and What You Can't Talk About." Flannery O'Connor: Modern Critical Views. New Haven: Chelsea House, 1987. 125-143.