John Keene
Associate Professor of English & African American Studies
University Hall Room 413
Telephone: (847) 491-5773
Fax: (847) 467-1545
E-mail: j-keene@northwestern.edu
On leave Fall 2009
John Keene (M.F.A. New York University) is the author of the award-winning novel Annotations (New Directions, 1995), and of the poetry collection Seismosis (1913 Press, 2006), with artwork by Christopher Stackhouse. He has published his fiction, poetry, essays and translations in a wide array of journals, including African-American Review, AGNI, Encyclopedia, Gay and Lesbian Review, Hambone, Indiana Review, Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, and Public Space. His honors include an array of fellowships, including a 2005 Whiting Foundation Award in Fiction and Poetry and a 2008 Fellowship for Distinguished First Collection from the inaugural Pan-African Literary Forum.
A longtime member of the Dark Room Writers Collective of Cambridge and Boston, and a Graduate Fellow of Cave Canem, he was Northwestern's inaugural Simon Blattner Visiting Assistant Professor in 2001. He teaches courses in fiction and cross-genre writing; American, African-American and Diasporic literatures and cultures; aesthetics and aesthetic theories; and literary translation.
In 2006, he received the Northwestern University Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences' E. Leroy Hall Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, and has served as Director and Honors Director of the Writing Major Program.
Publications by John Keene
Annotations
Seismosis
Interviews
Gaper's Block Interview with John Hospodka
