John Keene

Associate Professor of English and African American Studies

Director of the English Major in Writing

University Hall Room 413
Telephone: (847) 491-5773
Fax: (847) 467-1545
E-mail: j-keene@northwestern.edu

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, New American Writing, and Ploughshares. Recipient of fellowships from the Artists Foundation of Massachusetts, the New York Times Foundation, Yaddo, and the Bread Loaf Writer's Conference, his recent honors include a 2003 Fellowship in Poetry from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and a 2005 Whiting Foundation Award in Fiction and Poetry. 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, African-American and Diasporic literature, aesthetics, 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.

Publications by John Keene

Annotations

Seismosis

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