David N. Ben-Merre
David N. Ben-Merre
Assistant Professor
(716) 878-5416
Campus Address: Ketchum Hall 326
benmerdn@buffalostate.edu
I am currently an assistant professor in the English Department at Buffalo State College, where I teach classes on twentieth-century literature, literary theory, and poetry. I received my B.A. and M.A. from Johns Hopkins University (2000 and 2001), before heading to Brown University, where I received my doctorate in 2008. My primary research interests include modernism, poetics, intellectual history, and interdisciplinary studies. I have just completed my book manuscript Time Travels and Modernist Poetry, which examines how modernist poets reconfigure cultural notions of temporality, such as what one understands by “revision,” “national culture,” or “lyric subjectivity.” Currently, I am working on two book projects: the first will offer an extended look at poetic apostrophe, and the second is on literary misreadings.
I have published on Lord Byron (Shofar), W.B. Yeats (Journal of Modern Literature), James Joyce (James Joyce Quarterly), World War I poetry (PMLA; with Robert Scholes), Charles Dickens (Novel), and Carly Simon (Metalepsis in Popular Culture; Kukkonen & Klimek, eds.). I have articles forthcoming on Giorgio Agamben (MOSAIC), James Merrill (Arizona Quarterly) and J.L. Borges (edited collection). Articles on Wallace Stevens, Martin Amis, James Joyce, and Kurt Gödel are presently under review. My introduction to the Modernist Journals Project’s archive of Poetry magazine is available online—just Google “modernist journals project.” Finally, my (Wednesday) crossword puzzle will be published in the New York Times at the end of the summer.