Curriculum Vitae

Geoff Klock
23-75 Crescent Street, First Floor
Astoria, NY 11105
Home Phone: 718.278.4017
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    Education

  • D.Phil. student, department of English literature, Balliol College, Oxford, from the fall term 2004.
    Doctoral thesis: Imaginary Biographies: Misreading the Lives of the Poets (to be submitted fall 2006). Supervisor: Seamus Perry.
  • Ph.D. student, department of English literature, University of Texas at Austin, fall 2001 to spring 2002 (no degree taken).

  • M.A., English and American literature, New York University, May 2000.

  • B.A., English and American literature and philosophy (double major), New York University, May 2000.
    Publications

  • Imaginary Biographies: Misreading the Lives of the Poets. New York: Continuum, 2007 (forthcoming).
    • This work argues that the bizarre portrayal of historical writers (e.g. Dante's Virgil) in English Romantic poetry and its extensions through the twentieth century constitutes a genre. Poems by Blake, Shelley, Swinburne, James Merrill, Paul Muldoon, John Ashbery and Anne Carson are examined.
  • How to Read Superhero Comics and Why. New York: Continuum, 2002.
    • Harold Bloom's poetics of influence are employed in this work to argue that the "golden age" of superhero comic books (e.g., Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman) and the "silver age" (e.g., Spiderman, the X-Men, the Fantastic Four) have now been succeeded by a third, modern age (e.g., the Authority, Wildcats, Planetary).
  • "Story Structure and Veronica Mars" in a collection of other writings on the show, edited by Rob Thomas, BenBella Books (Smart Pop series), forthcoming.

  • "Rousseau's Self, Shelley's Shelf: The Triumph of Life," in an essay collection on the construction of the artist, Cambridge Scholars Press, forthcoming.

  • "Introduction" (co-writer) to Post-hu-man-ous: A Special Edition of Reconstruction.ws (4.3), summer 2004.

  • "X-Men, Emerson, Gnosticism" Post-hu-man-ous: A Special Edition of Reconstruction.ws (4.3), summer 2004.

  • "Harold Bloom's Pal, Donnie Darko," Post Scriptum.org, issue 2: Anachronism and Untimeliness, spring 2003.

    Paper Presentations

  • "William Blake in Jim Jarmusch's Dead Man," delivered at the Wadham Film Society, Wadham College, Oxford University, June 9, 2006.

  • "George Dewey, Melvil Dewey, John Dewey, John Ashbery," delivered at the Graduate Seminar Day, Oxford University, June 9, 2006.

  • "The New Superhero Comics," delivered at Doug's Lunch, Balliol College, Oxford University, May 11, 2006.

  • "Anne Carson's Sappho," delivered at the Twentieth Century Work in Progress Seminar, Oxford University, May 8, 2006.

  • "Swinburne's Sappho," delivered at the Victorian Semniar, Oxford University, March 6, 2006.

  • "Paul Muldoon's Madoc: Coleridge and Southey Colonize America," delivered at Romantic Correspondence(s), Newstead Abbey and Nottingham University, November 4, 2005.

  • "Rousseau's Self, Shelley's Shelf: The Triumph of Life," delivered at From Self to Shelf: The Artist Under Construction, Balliol College, Oxford, July 1, 2005.

  • "Character as Architecture in Blake's Milton," delivered at Romantic Realignments, Oxford University, February 10, 2005.

  • "Dark City, Gnosticism, Post-Humanity," delivered at the National meeting of the Popular Culture and American Culture Association in San Antonio, Texas, April 7-10, 2004.

  • "Dark City, Psychoanalysis, Noir" delivered at the Southwest/Texas Regional Meeting of the Popular Culture and American Culture Association in Albuquerque, New Mexico, February 12-15, 2003.

  • "Sigmund Freud and Sherlock Holmes: The Final Problem and its Seven Per Cent Solution" delivered at the Central New York Conference on Language and Literature in Cortland, New York, October 27-29, 2002.

  • "The WildC.A.Ts/Aliens Crossover: The Origin Story that Never Happened" delivered at the North American Popular Culture and American Culture Association in Toronto, Canada, March 13-16, 2002.

  • "Warren Ellis's Planetary: Superhero as Critic" delivered at the Southwest/Texas Regional Meeting of the Popular Culture and American Culture Association in Albuquerque, New Mexico, February 13-17, 2002.

  • "Horror Tropes in the Revisionary Superhero Narrative," delivered at the Southwest/Texas Regional Meeting of the Popular Culture and American Culture Association in Albuquerque, New Mexico, March 7-10, 2001.
    Teaching Experience and Relevant Work

  • Adjunct Lecturer, department of English literature, LaGuardia Community College. English 102: Writing through Literature. Two courses, fall 2006./li>
  • Assistant Instructor, Department of English, University of Texas at Austin. Rhetoric and Composition. English 306. Substantial Writing Component. fall 2001, spring 2002.

  • Consultant, Undergraduate Writing Center, University of Texas at Austin, Fall 2001 — spring 2002. 7 hours a week.

  • Guest Co-editor (with C. Jason Smith and Ximena Gallardo-C.), Post-hu-man-ous: A Special Edition of Reconstruction.ws (4.3), summer 2004.

  • Oxford University walking lecture for the New York University London study abroad program, Oxford University, July 22, 2006.

  • "Superheroes in School," guest lecture for the Oxford Preparatory Program, Corpus Christie College, Oxford University, July 17, 2006.

  • "Harold Bloom," guest lecture for all first year English majors, Balliol College, Oxford University, May 23, 2006./li>
  • Discussion Leader on James Merrill at Holywell Manor Poetry Group, April 10, 2005.

  • Discussion Leader on John Ashberry at Holywell Manor Poetry Group, February 8, 2005.

  • "Donne's The Good Morrow, Keats's When I have fears that I may cease to be, and Rossetti's The Orchard Pit: An Introduction to Poetry," guest lecture for Jason Smith's Love and Death in Occidental Literature class at LaGuardia Community College, 10 July 2004.

  • On the organizing committee for "Self to Shelf: The Artist Under Construction," July 1, 2005, Balliol College, Oxford.

  • Session Chair: Irish Literature, Graduate Seminar Day, Oxford University, June 9, 2006.

  • Session Chair: Science Fiction and Fantasy 2: Folk and Literary Fairy Tales and Popular Culture at National meeting of the Popular Culture and American Culture Association in San Antonio, Texas, April 7-10, 2004.

  • Session Chair: Science Fiction and Fantasy 2: Folk and Literary Fairy Tales and Popular Culture at Southwest/Texas Regional Meeting of the Popular Culture and American Culture Association in Albuquerque, New Mexico, February 12-15, 2003.

  • Session Chair: Science Fiction and Fantasy: Star Trek at Southwest/Texas Regional Meeting of the Popular Culture and American Culture Association in Albuquerque, New Mexico, February 13-17, 2002.
    Research and Teaching Interests

  • Genre and influence in post-Enlightenment poetry in English; genre and influence in film, television and comic books.
    Honors and Awards

  • Tuition Fellowship, The University of Texas at Austin, 2001.

  • Founder's Day Award for Academic Excellence, New York University, May 2000.

  • Graduated Magna Cum Laude, New York University, May 2000.
    Affiliations

  • The Modern Language Association

  • Popular Culture Association / American Culture Association

  • The Oxford Union
    Recommendations:

  • Recommendations are available upon request.