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Rai Peterson

Associate Professor
PhD, Ball State University

Office: Robert Bell 254
Phone: (765) 285-8405
E-mail: rai@bsu.edu
Website: http://rai.iweb.bsu.edu/

Dr. Peterson will be in residence at Yale University as the H.D. Fellow in American or British Literature during October 2008.

Areas of Specialization:

Modernism, poetics, pedagogy

Publications:

  • “A Question of Loyalty: The New Yorker and Kay Boyle.” The Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association. 40.1 (Spring 2007) 64-74.
  • Real World Research: Sources and Strategies for Composition. Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 2000.
  • The Writing Teacher's Companion. Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1995.
  • "Meter in Cummings' Free Verse." Spring: The Journal of the E.E. Cummings Society 6.1 (Fall 1997): 153-65.
  • "Readable Silence: Blank Space in E.E. Cummings' Poetry." Spring: The Journal of the E.E. Cummings Society 4.1 (Fall 1995): 45-56.

Courses:

Graduate: pedagogy, poetics, Modernist literature

Undergraduate: American literature, Modernism, queer theory, poetics