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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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Liberal Arts 337

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 foundation course for all English majors, examining traditions and innovations in literature and in the study of literature in English. Students develop writing and research skills in the discipline and improve their knowledge of literary terms and forms, literary history and conventions, literary influence, and new and emerging forms and approaches. Genres studied include poetry, drama, fiction, and literary (creative) non-fiction. The course also examines key issues in the profession of literary studies, such as the development of departments of literature, canon formation, and the relationship of literary theory to literary practice.

Intensive and critical reading of a major author with attention to cultural contexts. Selected author will vary and be identified each time the course is scheduled. Course may be repeated with change of author.

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