Robert Zamsky
Assistant Professor of English
Ph.D., University of New York at Buffalo
M.A., University of Nebraska
B.A., Oregon State University
Professor Zamsky teaches poetry, with particular emphasis on interdisciplinary approaches to the literary avant-garde. He offers courses and tutorials that span the history and forms of lyric poetry, as well as courses on American literature.
His research focuses on the relationship between poetry and music in international modernism and postmodernism, with publications on Gertrude Stein’s operas and the role of avant-garde jazz aesthetics in contemporary African-American poetry.
His current work considers how theories of sound and performance construe the social and political work of poetry.
His research focuses on the relationship between poetry and music in international modernism and postmodernism, with publications on Gertrude Stein’s operas and the role of avant-garde jazz aesthetics in contemporary African-American poetry.
His current work considers how theories of sound and performance construe the social and political work of poetry.
