C. D. Blanton, Assistant Professor
Office: 437 Wheeler
Phone: 510-642-2762
Email: cdblanton@berkeley.edu
Areas of Interest
Modernism. Poetry. 19th-and 20th-Century Literature. Aesthetic and Cultural Theory.Current Research
Dan Blanton specializes in the history of modernism and of modern poetry more generally, with a broad interest in the aesthetic and cultural theory of the last two centuries. He is currently working on two books: Epic Negation: The Dialectical Poetics of Late Modernism, and Aftereffects: Late British Style. He is co-editor of Pocket Epics: British Poetry After Modernism and of A Concise Companion to Post-War British and Irish Poetry, with Nigel Alderman.Professional Statement
Ph.D., Duke University; B.A. Rice University. Blanton joined the faculty at Berkeley in 2005, having taught since 2001 in the Department of English at Princeton University.Selected Publications and Papers Delivered
"Medieval Currencies: Nominalism and Art." In The Legitimacy of the Middle Ages: On the Unwritten History of Theory, ed. Andrew Cole and D. Vance Smith (Durham: Duke University Press, 2009), 194-232, forthcoming.
"Transatlantic Crossings." In A Concise Companion to Post-War British and Irish Poetry, ed. Nigel Alderman and C. D. Blanton (Oxford: Blackwell, 2009), 134-154.
"Arnold's Arrhythmia." Studies in English Literature 48:4 (Autumn 2008): 755-767.
"Invisible Times: Modernism as Ruptural Unity." In Modernism and Theory, ed. Stephen Ross (London: Routledge, 2008), 137-152.
“The Politics of Epochality: Antinomies of Original Sin.” In T. E. Hulme and the Question of Modernism, ed. Edward P. Comentale and Andrzej Gasiorek (Aldershot: Ashgate Press, 2006), 187-208.
“Impostures: Robert Browning and the Poetics of Forgery,” Studies in the Literary Imagination 35:2 (Fall 2002): 1-25.
“Nominal Devolutions: Poetic Substance and the Critique of Political Economy,” The Yale Journal of Criticism 13:1 (Spring 2000): 129-152.
Office Hours
Tuesday/Thursday, 3-4:30 p.m., and by appointment
