Associate Professor English Department  Auburn University

Jeremy M. Downes, Professor of English at Auburn University, received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and studied at both the University of Warwick and the University of Chicago.  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 The Female Homer: An Exploration of Women's Epic Poetry (University of Delaware); of Recursive Desire: Rereading Epic Tradition (University of Alabama); of a chapbook of poems, Dark Village Haiku (winner of the John and Miriam Morris Chapbook Prize); of a collection of poems entitled The Lost Atlas of Desire; of a few articles, and a good many poems. He also manages HyperEpos, a substantial collection of links to epic texts, resources, and materials on the Web. His research has received support from the University of Warwick, the NEH, and Auburn University. The working title of his next scholarly project is Local Heroes, which promises a study of American local, state, and regional epic.

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Current Projects

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Academy of American Poets College and University Prize at Auburn University

The National Federation of State Poetry Societies

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Current Projects in Poetry