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Jeremy M. Downes

 

Associate Professor

English Department 

Auburn University

 
 
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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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Contact Information  
Electronic mail address:
downejm@auburn.edu
Web address:
http://www.auburn.edu/~downejm/
Office phone:
(334) 844-9040
Fax:
(334) 844-9027
Address:
English Department
9
030 Haley Center
Auburn University
Auburn, AL 36849

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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

Teaching

Reinventing Civilization, An Evolving Philosophy of Teaching

Web-Enhanced Courses

These are now brought online through courseware systems. As time and circumstances permit, material from these many courses will be brought into the open web. Materials still available online include limited course materials World Literature (Pretty Good Books) and from an undergraduate course on the American Epic

 

Research

The Female Homer, an exploration of women's epic

Baal, a new translation and edition of the Canaanite epic

HyperEpos, the most comprehensive collection of links to epic texts, resources, and materials on the Web

Piping the Epic, a data mashup which draws news and information on epic from around the Internet

Poetry

Dark Village Haiku, winner of the 2007 John and Miriam Morris Chapbook Prize

The Lost Atlas of Desire, Mapping the Old World and the New, containing an historical Gazetteer and Pastiche, Eleven Illustrative Plates, and a Guide to Parts Unknown

The Invisible Child (from a manuscript in progress)

A sample of published work

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Useful Links                        
Auburn University
Auburn University Libraries The Academy of American Poets The National Federation of State Poetry Societies Modern Language Association
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Last Revised: March 31, 2008