Jess Rafalko
Mailroom: 430 Burrowes Building
Mailroom: 430 Burrowes Building
Spring 2023 Office Hours
Not teaching Fall 2022Curriculum Vitae
Education
Professional Bio
I am a first-year PhD student in English. My interests lie broadly in American literature and pop culture, considered through the lenses of narrative/genre theory and aesthetics. I also work in critical university studies and institutional analysis. My current research projects are a study of the postwar campus novel, and a study of the role of fiction-writing manuals in creative writing instruction.
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, the campus novel
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