Grant Jenkins 

Biography

Grant Matthew Jenkins teaches Twentieth- and Twenty-First century American literature, with specialties in modern and postmodern experimental poetry and poetics, African American and other ethnic literatures, creative writing, ethical and critical theory, and composition and rhetorical studies. He has written on Modernist poets like Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, William Carlos Williams, Louis Zukofsky, George Oppen, Lorine Niedecker, Melvin B. Tolson, and Charles Reznikoff, as well as post-war writers such as Ed Dorn, Robert Duncan, Charles Olson, Allen Ginsberg, Susan Howe, Lyn Hejinian, and Lorenzo Thomas. 

Research Interest

American Literature since 1900, Modern and Postmodern Poetry and Poetics, Creative Writing (poetry and screenwriting), African American and other Ethnic Literature, Ethical and Critical Theory, Screen Studies, Composition and Rhetorical Studies