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 Jim Elledge is Professor of English and Director of the M.A. in Professional Writing Program. He has published in a variety of genres, from the creative to the scholarly, and his publications reveal his many interests, from innovative poetry to queer studies.
Elledge's most recent volume, A History of My Tattoo (Stonewall, 2006), is a book-length poem that explores that moment in history when gay Vietnam vets began to be struck down by HIV/AIDS. It won both the Lambda Literary Award in gay male poetry as well as the Georgia Author of the Year award in poetry. It was also a finalist in the Thom Gunn Ward in gay male poetry.
His other collections include The Chapters of Coming Forth by Day (Stonewall, 2002), which is a novel in prose poems, and Various Envies (Copper Beech 1989), as well as a number of chapbooks: Nothing Nice (Windfall Prophets1987), Earth as It Is (Ashland Poetry Press, 1994), Into the Arms of the Universe (Stonewall, 1995), Four Chapters of Coming Forth by Day (1999), and A Letter to No One, Who Is Named "The Past," and the Thoughts That Interrupted the Writing of It (Street Lamp Editions, 2001), and The Book of the Heart Taken by Love: 19 Selections. He has recently completed a series of some sixty prose poems that are a fictionalized biography of the Chicago-born outsider artist Henry Darger, entitled H, as well as a collection of poems and prose poems investigating the post-9/11 era, The Season of Mascara. His poems and prose poems have appeared individually in a variety of journals, including Antioch Review, Black Warrior Review, Chicago Review, Crazyhorse, Denver Quarterly, English Journal, Fiction International, Five Fingers Review, Hayden's Ferry Review, Indiana Review, Jubilat, Louisville Review, Margie, North American Review, Paris Review, Quarter After Eight, Texas Review, Verse, Washington Square, and Zone 3.
Although he considers himself first and foremost a poet, Dr. Elledge has a large number of scholarly interests. Several of his books focus on the work of a particular poet, such as Standing "Between the Dead and the Living:" The Elegiac Technique of Wilfred Owen's War Poems (Eastern Illinois University, 1992), Frank O'Hara: To Be True to a City (University of Michigan Press, 1990), Weldon Kees: A Critical Introduction (Scarecrow Press, 1985), and James Dickey: A Bibliography, 1947-1974 (Scarecrow Press, 1979). Others focus on broad topics, for example A Student's Guide to Getting Published, which he co-authored with Susan Swartwout (Longman, 2002), and Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Myths from the Acoma to the Zu?i: An Anthology (Lang, 2002). He has also published a variety of subject anthologies: Masquerade: Queer Poetry in America to the End of World War II (Indiana University Press, 2004), Real Things: An Anthology of Popular Culture in American Poetry, which he co-edited with Susan Swartwout (Indiana University Press, 1999), and Sweet Nothings: An Anthology of Rock and Roll in American Poetry (Indiana University Press, 1994). He was invited to edit Queers in American Popular Culture, to be published by Praeger in 2009-10.
Professor Elledge has taught in a variety of institutions and venues, from the typical academic setting to writing conferences across the U.S., and to the summer study "abroad" program in San Juan, Puerto Rico, that he recently designed specifically for MAPW students. His first tenure-track position was at Illinois State University, which he left in 2001 to become chair of the Department of English and Humanities at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY. He joined the faculty of Kennesaw State University's Department of English as the director of the MAPW Program in July 2006.
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