Profile:
Christopher Nealon teaches American literature, aesthetic theory (especially the history and theory of poetry), and the history of sexuality. He received his PhD from Cornell University in 1997, and taught at UC Berkeley from 1996 to 2008. He is the author of Foundlings: Lesbian and Gay Historical Emotion before Stonewall (Duke, 2001), and a book of poems, The Joyous Age (Black Square Editions, 2004). He recently completed a second book of poems, Plummet, and is finishing a book called The Matter of Capital: Poetry and Textuality in The American Century. In 2007-08 he was a Fellow at the Society for The Humanities at Cornell, where he taught a seminar called "Poetry and Totality." Areas of interest: American literature, aesthetic theory, poetry and poetics, the history of sexuality.
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