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Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in Comparative Literature and affiliated member of the Graduate Field of English, Jonathan Monroe is a former Associate Dean of Arts and Sciences, George Reed Professor of Writing and Rhetoric, and Director of the John S. Knight Institute for Writing in the Disciplines. His most recent book, Demosthenes' Legacy, a work of prose poetry and short fiction, is forthcoming in 2008 from Ahadada Press. Author of A Poverty of Objects: The Prose Poem and the Politics of Genre (Cornell UP), and co-author and editor of Poetics of Avant-Garde Poetries (Poetics Today); Poetry Community, Movement (Diacritics); Writing and Revising the Disciplines (Cornell UP); and Local Knowledges, Local Practices: Writing in the Disciplines at Cornell (Pittsburgh UP), he has published widely on modern and contemporary poetry and poetics, innovative poetries of the past two centuries, avant-garde movements and their contemporary legacies, writing and disciplinary practices, and interdisciplinary approaches in literary and cultural studies. His verse and prose poetry, short fiction, and cross-genre writing have appeared as well in numerous journals, including The American Poetry Review, Epoch, Harvard Review, /nor New Ohio Review, Verse, Volt, and Xcp: Cross-Cultural Poetics. A former DAAD and ACLS Fellow, he has served as a steering committee member of Cornell's Institute for German Cultural Studies and as a member of the Fulbright selection committee for creative writing. His current project, following recent work in Argentina, Chile, Mexico, and the Caribbean, focuses on postcoloniality, globalization, and contemporary poetry and poetics of the Americas.
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