People / Jed Rasula
Jed Rasula, Helen S. Lanier Distinguished Professor, has taught at UGA since
2001, having previously taught at Queen’s University in Canada and Pomona
College in California. His PhD is from the History of Consciousness Program at
the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is the author of several books of
poetry—Tabula Rasula (1986), Hot Wax, or Psyche’s Drip (2007), and a
completed manuscript, Sophisticated Boom Boom—was editor of the poetry
magazine Wch Way (1976-1983), and served on the editorial board of Sulfur
(1986-1990). Scholarly publications include The American Poetry Wax Museum:
Reality Effects 1940-1990 (1996), This Compost: Ecological Imperatives in
American Poetry (2002), Syncopations: The Stress of Innovation in American
Poetry (2004), and two books in press, The Shadow Mouth: Studies in Poetic
Inspiration, and Lower Frequencies: Genre and Extravagance in the Novel. Rasula
is co-editor, with Steve McCaffery, of Imagining Language: An Anthology (1998),
and is presently co-editing, with Tim Conley, Burning City: Poems of
Metropolitan Modernity. A manuscript on modernism, called Jazzbandism, is
well underway, and is the project for which Rasula will have a residency
fellowship at the American Academy of Berlin in spring 2009.