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Caroline Gelmi

faculty

Caroline Gelmi, PhD she/her

Associate Professor

English & Communication

Curriculum Vitae

Contact

508-910-6927

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Balsam Hall 9167

Education

2014Tufts UniversityPhD
2007Tufts UniversityMA
2006Boston CollegeBA

Teaching

  • American Literature, 1865-1945
  • American Poetry and Poetics
  • American Modernism
  • Literary and Critical Theory
  • Speculative Fiction

Teaching

Programs

Teaching

Courses

A survey of literature in the United States from the end of the Civil War to the present. The course examines the diversity of American literature--from genres including poetry, drama, fiction, and non-fiction--paying particular attention to the ways individuals and groups contest and define ¿American¿ through conflicting notions of race, gender, culture, language, religion, sexuality, and class. 

A survey of literature in the United States from the end of the Civil War to the present. The course examines the diversity of American literature--from genres including poetry, drama, fiction, and non-fiction--paying particular attention to the ways individuals and groups contest and define ¿American¿ through conflicting notions of race, gender, culture, language, religion, sexuality, and class. 

Advanced and specialized studies in film (e.g., Shakespeare on Film) or in video production; topic selected by the instructor. May be repeated with change of topic.

Teaching

Online and Continuing Education Courses

A survey of literature in the United States from the end of the Civil War to the present. The course examines the diversity of American literature--from genres including poetry, drama, fiction, and non-fiction--paying particular attention to the ways individuals and groups contest and define ¿American¿ through conflicting notions of race, gender, culture, language, religion, sexuality, and class. 
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Research

Research interests

  • American poetry and poetics
  • Historical poetics
  • Race and poetry/poetics
  • Environmental poetics
  • Fan studies

Select publications

See curriculum vitae for more publications

  • Caroline Gelmi (Fall 2022).
    "Fraught Prospects: California Landscape Poetry During and After the Gold Rush"
    Western American Literature, 57, 223-253.
  • Caroline Gelmi (2022).
    "Vachel Lindsay and the Primitive Singing of the New Poetry"
    Journal of Modern Literature, 45
  • Caroline Gelmi (2021).
    "New Poetry's Dead Folk: Whiteness and Community in Spoon River Anthology"
    The Space Between: Literature and Culture 1914-1945
  • Caroline Gelmi (2020).
    "The Speaker, Photographed: Paul Laurence Dunbar's Poems of Cabin and Field"
    J19: The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists, 8, 67-95.
  • Caroline Gelmi (2014).
    “The Pleasures of Merely Circulating: Sappho and Early American Newspaper Poetry”
    Nineteenth-Century Literature, 69