Jeremy M. Downes, Associate Professor, received his
PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Specializing in a broadly
conceived tradition of epic poetry (beginnings to the present), he
has a similarly eclectic range of research and teaching interests,
both theoretical (gender, orality studies, narrative and genre theory)
and literary (comparative, medieval, twentieth-century, and the writing
of poetry).
He is the author of Recursive Desire: Rereading
Epic Tradition, a few articles, and a good many poems. His research
has received support from the University of Warwick, the NEH, and
Auburn University. His current project, The Female Homer, explores
women's performance as epic poets.
Representative Publications
Recursive Desire: Rereading Epic Tradition, University of
Alabama Press, 1997.
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