Bob Volpicelli
Robert Volpicelli is an Associate Professor of English at Randolph-Macon College, where he teaches courses on modern poetry and transnational modernisms. His book, Transatlantic Modernism & the U.S. Lecture Tour (Oxford UP, 2021), was awarded the Modernist Studies Association First Book Prize. With Kamran Javadizadeh, he has also edited a special issue of College Literature on "Poetry Networks" (January 2019). His articles are forthcoming, or have appeared in, journals such as PMLA, NOVEL, Textual Practice, and Twentieth-Century Literature, among others. His second book project, tentatively titled "Bad Visions," focuses on how impaired eyesight can trigger radical art, literature, and philosophy. For his teaching at Randolph-Macon, he was awarded the Thomas Branch Award for Excellence in Teaching (2020).
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This course offers the chance to closely examine Dublin, the center of Irish cultural life and one of the world’s most important literary capitals. Our syllabus primarily focuses on modern Irish literature with the aim of putting Irish writers of the early twentieth century into conversation with those of the early twenty-first. In addition to analyzing texts that feature Dublin’s literary scene, students will have the opportunity to engage in their own first-hand exploration of the city through our study-abroad travels. The aim of our travel is twofold: first, to acquire a sense of how Dublin the place filters into the literature we’re reading in class; and, second, to think critically about how the city has developed an international reputation and burgeoning cultural industry around its literary resources.
This course offers the chance to closely examine Dublin, the center of Irish cultural life and one of the world’s most important literary capitals. Our syllabus primarily focuses on modern Irish literature with the aim of putting Irish writers of the early twentieth century into conversation with those of the early twenty-first. In addition to analyzing texts that feature Dublin’s literary scene, students will have the opportunity to engage in their own first-hand exploration of the city through our study-abroad travels. The aim of our travel is twofold: first, to acquire a sense of how Dublin the place filters into the literature we’re reading in class; and, second, to think critically about how the city has developed an international reputation and burgeoning cultural industry around its literary resources.