JGA

This is a blog about what it’s like to be an English professor and to be a member of the Rockhurst community, which is to say that it's a blog about things that are awesome.

Monday, April 20, 2015

on lists (on Yom HaShoah)

I just walked across the quad to my office. I'm teaching Walt Whitman today. It's Yom HaShoah. A list of names is being read over a...

Friday, April 3, 2015

The Kids of Today Should Prepare Themselves for the Seventies

images courtesy of the EPA's Documerica project (1971-1974) I put up these fliers advertising a course I’m teaching in the fall, ...

Thursday, February 27, 2014

Shameless Plug for an Amtrak Writer's Residency Starts in ¶ 3

“Hobokens and Cuautitláns of the world, unite!” I recently, actually put that tortured allusion in a call for papers for a journal iss...

Sunday, January 19, 2014

East Side, West Side

I’ve been re-watching Ric Burns’s New York documentary . During episode three, which is about the late-nineteenth century (from ...

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Jason Arthur: I'm an Associate Professor of English at Rockhurst University. I teach and write about twentieth- and twenty-first-century American literature.

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