John Timberman Newcomb

Associate Professor

Office: 263 English Building
Office Phone: 244-7726
Home Phone: 352-4947

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Courses

ENGLISH 273: INTERMEDIATE FILM STUDIES

ENGLISH 451: AMERICAN LITERATURE 1914-1945

Teaching Interests

Modern American Poetry; Modernism and the Machine Age; The Urban 19th-Century; The Great Depression.

Specializations

Modern American Literature; American Poetry; Film Studies; Critical Theory.

Publications

Would Poetry Disappear?: American Verse and the Crisis of Modernity (2004); Wallace Stevens and Literary Canons (1992); articles on modern cityscape poetry, the modernist little magazine, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Archibald MacLeish, and World War II poetry.

Work in Progress

A book on early 20th -century American poetry and the modern urban subject, tentatively entitled The Poetry of Modern Life: American Verse on the Urban Boulevard, 1910-1925.