Blake Leland
Associate Professor
Member Of:
- School of Literature, Media, and Communication
Office Phone: 4048942737
Office Location: Skiles 322
Office Hours: variable by semester
Related Links:
Email Address: blake.leland@lmc.gatech.edu
Overview
Blake Leland received the Ph.D. in 1988 from Cornell University, and has taught in Georgia Tech's School of Literature, Media, and Communication since then. He teaches primarily in the degree program in Science Technology and Culture.
His scholarly work on the psychology of literary production, especially of poetry, has appeared in journals such as Diacritics, English Literary History, Genre, and Twentieth Century Literature. He is as well a practicing poet with poems published in The New Yorker, Epoch, Commonweal, Indiana Review, Atlanta Review, and a number of more ephemeral venues. His poetry has also been incorporated in a number of digital artworks both in the U.S. and abroad.
Interests
Teaching Interests:
Research Interests:
Research Fields:
- Literary and Cultural Studies
- Science and Technology Studies
Geographic
Focuses:
Focuses:
- Europe
- United States
Issues:
- Aesthetics
- Creativity in Context
- Literary Theory
- Literature
- Poetry
- Psychoanalysis
- Science and Technology
Courses
- ENGL-1102: English Composition II
- LCC-2100: Intro-Sci,Tech & Culture
- LCC-3110: Sci, Tech & Romanticism
- LCC-3114: Sci, Tech & Modernism
- LCC-3226: Major Authors
- LMC-2050: Lit, Media, Comm Seminar
- LMC-2060: Intro to Lit Studies
- LMC-2100: Intro to STAC
- LMC-3110: Sci, Tech & Romanticism
- LMC-3114: Sci, Tech & Modernism
- LMC-3116: Sci Tech & Postmodernisms
- LMC-3204: Poetry and Poetics
- LMC-3226: Major Authors
- LMC-3512: Brit/Cont Romanticism
- LMC-3516: Lit & Cultural Modernism
- LMC-4200: Seminar Lit/Cult Theory
- LMC-6367: Literary & Cultural Theory
Publications
Recent Publications
Books
- “Annunciation”
In: Mother Mary Comes to Me: A Popculture Poetry Anthology [Peer Reviewed]
Date: 2021
Journal Articles
- “An Abode Of Bliss: Plumtree’s Potted Meat and The Allegory of the Theologians”
In: The James Joyce Quarterly [Peer Reviewed]
Date: 2016
Creative Artifacts
- “Still Life”
In: The Thomas Hardy Review [Peer Reviewed]
Date: 2017
Internet Publications
- The Pauline Poems: “The North Shore I,” “Hawaii or Metastasizing Melanoma,” “The Summer of Love,” “Blue Christmas,” “The North Shore II”
In: Ginosko Literary Journal Summer 2024 [Peer Reviewed]
Date: 2024
- “Grimm,” “Poem” ”Forsythia” “The Theologians” “The Cicadas”
In: Poetry International [Peer Reviewed]
Date: 2018
All Publications
Books
- “Annunciation”
In: Mother Mary Comes to Me: A Popculture Poetry Anthology [Peer Reviewed]
Date: 2021
- On Occasion: Four Poets, One Year
Date: 2014
- “The Big Fish” (poem)
In: Fish Tales [Peer Reviewed]
Date: 1993
Journal Articles
- “An Abode Of Bliss: Plumtree’s Potted Meat and The Allegory of the Theologians”
In: The James Joyce Quarterly [Peer Reviewed]
Date: 2016
- "Singing The Alphabet: Symbolic Ambivalence and Epic Origin"
In: Genre, Vol. 26, No. 2-3, pp. 133-154, Summer/Fall, 1993. [Peer Reviewed]
Date: 1993
- "'Siete voi qui, Ser Brunetto?' Dante's Inferno XV as a Modernist Topic Place,"
In: English Literary History, Vol. 59, No. 4 [Peer Reviewed]
Date: 1992
- "Psychotic Apotheosis: Visionary Iconicity and Poet's Fear in Ezra Pound's 'The Return,'"
In: Twentieth Century Literature, Vol. 38, No. 2 [Peer Reviewed]
Date: 1992
- "Voodoo Economics: Sticking Pins in Eros,"
In: Diacritics, Vol. 18, No. 2, [Peer Reviewed]
Date: 1988
Creative Artifacts
- “Still Life”
In: The Thomas Hardy Review [Peer Reviewed]
Date: 2017
- “The Cicadas” a suite of three poems
In: Indiana Review, [Peer Reviewed]
Date: 2007
- “The Theologians”
In: Atlanta Review [Peer Reviewed]
Date: 2004
- "Terrorist," and "Another Poem About Birds"
In: Maryland Poetry Review [Peer Reviewed]
Date: 1996
Internet Publications
- The Pauline Poems: “The North Shore I,” “Hawaii or Metastasizing Melanoma,” “The Summer of Love,” “Blue Christmas,” “The North Shore II”
In: Ginosko Literary Journal Summer 2024 [Peer Reviewed]
Date: 2024
- “Grimm,” “Poem” ”Forsythia” “The Theologians” “The Cicadas”
In: Poetry International [Peer Reviewed]
Date: 2018
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