Personnel
Professors
Jennifer Ashton
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601 South Morgan Street (MC 162) |
Associate Professor |
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American literature |
Jennifer Ashton's research interests center on 20th- and 21st-century American poetry and literary theory, including recent efforts to apply developments in cognitive science, neuroscience and evolutionary biology to the study of poetry and visual art. These concerns were in part the subject matter of her first book, From Modernism to Postmodernism: American Poetry and Theory in the Twentieth Century (Cambridge UP, 2010). Professor Ashton is currently at work on a new project that examines the historical formation of the so-called "lyric subject," tentatively titled: Sincerity and the Second Person: Lyric and Anti-Lyric in American Poetry.
PUBLICATIONS
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From Modernism to Postmodernism: American Poetry and Theory in the Twentieth Century |