Fields: Twentieth-Century American Literature, Modernism, Contemporary Poetry, Poetics
Biography:
Joel Bettridge is the author of four books of poetry, Ligatures, The Public Life of Chemistry, Presocratic Blues, and That Abrupt Here, as well as two critical studies, Avant-Garde Pieties: Aesthetics, Race, and the Renewal of Innovative Poetics and Reading as Belief: Language Writing, Poetics, Faith. He co-edited Ronald Johnson: Life and Works. Currently he is an Associate Professor of English at Portland State University.
On the PSU faculty since 2006.
Courses:
- What Are Great Books?
- The Twentieth-Century Avant-Garde
- American Poetry
- Modernism
- The Bible as Literature