Jim McCord
Professor (Ph.D. University of California, Santa Barbara)
Nineteenth-Century British Literature
ON LEAVE, Spring, 2011
Contact Information:
Office: Humanities 216D
Phone: 518.388.6035
E-mail: mccordj@union.edu
TEACHING AND INTERESTS
Teaching Interests: Poetry; Chaucer; Shakespeare; Eighteenth-Century English literature; English Romanticism; Modernism; relationships between art, history, and literature.
Areas of Scholarly Interest: William Blake; Modern Poetry; Historical and Contemporary Book Arts.
PUBLICATIONS
Recent and in-progress work includes a book of poems, Bittern Sweet (2008); a catalog/chapbook, Building Relationships (2010), which explores relationships between paintings and pastel drawings by Bruce McColl and poems that accompany them; The Singing Eye, a collection of "photo poems" -- poems that appear in photographs by Carol McCord; and a series of poems on William Blake's life and works.
