Associate Professor English Department  Auburn University

Jeremy M. Downes, Associate Professor of English at Auburn University, received his Ph.D. 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 new chapbook of poems, Dark Village Haiku, which won the John and Miriam Morris Chapbook Prize in 2007, a collection of poems entitled The Lost Atlas of Desire, 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. His current project, rapidly reaching its conclusion, is The Female Homer, a book exploring women's epic poetry. The working title of his next scholarly project is Local Heroes, a study of local, state, and regional epic.

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Current Projects

Service

Academy of American Poets College and University Prize at Auburn University

The National Federation of State Poetry Societies

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Research

Poetry