Research Interests
American poetry, film and visual culture, theories of spatiality and urban modernity, architecture.
Education
B.A. Davidson College, M.A., Ph.D. Duke University
Additional Campus Affiliations
Professor, English
Highlighted Publications
Newcomb, J. T. (2012). How did poetry survive? The making of modern American verse. University of Illinois Press.
Newcomb, J. T. (2004). Would Poetry Disappear? American Verse and the Crisis of Modernity. Ohio State University Press. https://muse.jhu.edu/book/28377
Newcomb, J. T. (1992). Wallace Stevens and Literary Canons. University Press of Mississippi.
Recent Publications
Newcomb, J. T. (2017). The City: Modern Poetics and Metropolitan Life. In M. W. Van Wienen (Ed.), American Literature in Transition, 1910-1920 (pp. 17-30). (American Literature in Transition). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316534397.003
Newcomb, J. (2016). A Poem and the Times: Teaching “Justice Denied in Massachusetts” in Context. Modernism/modernity Print Plus, 1(1). https://doi.org/10.26597/mod.0013
Newcomb, J. T. (2015). The Emergence of “The New Poetry”. In W. Kalaidjian (Ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Modern American Poetry (pp. 11-22). (Cambridge Companions to Literature). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CCO9781139628907.003
Newcomb, J. T. (2014). Review: M.B. Hickman and J.D. McIntyre's (eds.) Rereading the New Criticism. James Joyce Quarterly, 51(2-3), 529-532. https://doi.org/10.1353/jjq.2014.0023
Newcomb, J. T. (2014). The New Poetry. In D. E. Chinitz, & G. McDonald (Eds.), A Companion to Modernist Poetry (pp. 209-221). (Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture; Vol. 88). Wiley-Blackwell. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118604427.ch17