Jess Rafalko
CALS Graduate Research Assistant (2023-2024)
EGO Internal Liaison (2023-2024)
106 Burrowes Building
Mailroom: 430 Burrowes Building
Mailroom: 430 Burrowes Building
Mailroom: 430 Burrowes Building
Spring 2023 Office Hours
Not teaching Spring 2023Curriculum Vitae
Education
MA, English, Penn State University (2022)
MFA, Creative Writing (Fiction), The Ohio State University (2018)
BA, English, King's College (2014)
Professional Bio
I am a second-year PhD student in English. My research focuses on the limits of realism in Post-45 American literature.
I'm also a fiction writer. My work has appeared most recently in One Story and The Apple Valley Review.
Areas of Specialization
American Literature After 1900
Post45 writers
Contemporary Literature
Contemporary realism
Creative Writing
The teaching (and institutionalization) of creative writing, the craft manual as a genre
Theory and Cultural Studies
Aesthetics, critical university studies and institutional analysis, disability studies, narrative/genre theory
Visual Culture
Film adaptation, comic strips and serial storytelling