Bio

Joshua Kupetz is a poet, a literary-, and cultural-critic. He has taught at the University of Colorado at Boulder, Dickinson College, and PSU-Altoona.

His research interests include the intersection of literature and popular culture, specifically contemporary American literature and disability theory, the history of anatomy, and the allegorical use of biform figures.

Education

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI. Ph.d Program in Language & Literature, 2014 (anticipated).

Columbia University, School of the Arts, New York, NY. M.F.A. in Writing, Poetry, May 1998.

Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA. B.A. in English, Cum Laude, May 1996.


Scholarly Publications

Kerouac, Jack.  On the Road: The Scroll Manuscript. Eds. Howard Cunnell, Joshua Kupetz, George Mouratidis, and Penny Vlagopoulos. New York: Penguin, 2007.

Kupetz, Joshua. “Body Matters: The Politics of Representations of Difference.” Health Studies. Ed.  Jim Hoefler. Dickinson College, 2008.


Recent Creative Publications

“Sing for Us, Gone Orpheus,” Order & Decorum, http://www.personnagesobscurs.com,

“At the Whole-Foods Store,” “Monuments,” Kaleidoscope.

“A Photo of AJ, Three Days Old,” newLeaf.

Courses Taught at CU-Boulder
(2006-2009)

Courses Taught at Dickinson College
(2002-2006)