Dr. John Edward Martin

 

Assistant Professor of English

Louisiana Tech University

 

 

Department of English

Louisiana Tech University

Ruston, LA 71272

E-mail: jmartin@latech.edu

Office: GTM 216

Phone: 318.257.5492

“Renunciation—is a piercing Virtue—

The letting go

A Presence—for an Expectation—”

 

Emily Dickinson (782)

 

 

Curriculum Vitae

 

You can see my c.v. here.

            My department web-page is here.

 

Courses taught at Louisiana Tech                           

 

English 101: Freshman Composition I                            

            English 102: Freshman Composition II                            

English 202: Introduction to American Literature            

            English 401: The American Mind  

            English 408: American Poetry (see the flier)

            English 416: American Literature to 1865

English 418: The American Renaissance

 

 

Coming Soon:  American Gothic: Art & Terror from the 1790s to Present

 

 

 

Course Materials:

“How to do a close-reading”

“How to read poetry”

“Constructing a critical essay”

“Questions to Help Evaluate Your Own Papers”

“Professorly Picky’s ‘A Series of Unfortunate Occurrences’”

 

       

         

Selected Publications and Papers:

 

“Confessional Correspondences: ‘Tamerlane’ and the Paternal Scapegoat” (current article in progress)

“Anne Bradstreet,” “Frances Sargent Osgood,” “Elizabeth Oakes Smith,” and “Sarah Helen Whitman,” in The Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Poets and Poetry. ed. Jeffrey Gray. Westport, CT & London: Greenwood Press, 2006.

“No Safe Words” and “Invocation” in disclosure: a journal of social theory, 14 (2005).

 “’A German Fear, This Fear’: Alfred Hitchcock’s Gothic-Confessional,” The Image of Power Conference, Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Social Imagery, Colorado Springs, CO, 2006.

 “Poetics of the Perverse: Gothic Personae in Poe and the Confessionals,” International Poe Conference, Baltimore, MD, 2002

 

 

 

Research Interests:

 

Early American literature

American Romanticism

            The gothic

            Religious experience                         

            Psychoanalysis

Confessional poetry & poetics

            Edgar Allan Poe

Emily Dickinson

            Literature & film

“My friend, my friend, I was born

doing reference work in sin, and born

confessing it. This is what poems are:

with mercy

for the greedy,

they are the tongue’s wrangle,

the world’s pottage, the rat’s star.”

 

Anne Sexton, “With Mercy for the Greedy”

 

 

Other projects:

 

School of Literature & Languages Film Series

 

A free film series offered on the campus of Louisiana Tech University for students, faculty, and staff who enjoy good movies, stimulating discussions, and a cheap date! Check back for updates and future film schedules.

 

 

Winter Quarter 2008: Arthurian Legend!

 

 

 

 

And all my days are trances,

And all my nightly dreams

Are where thy grey eye glances,

And where thy footstep gleams—

In what ethereal dances,

By what eternal streams.”

 

Edgar Allan Poe, “To One in Paradise”

 

Web Resources:

 

Louisiana Tech Department of English

 

“Best Practices”: e-Resources for Composition

 

The Modern Language Association (MLA)

The Poe Studies Association

The Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore

The Emily Dickinson International Society

 

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