BGSU English Department

Phil Dickinson, Senior Lecturer
Assistant to Chair and Undergraduate Coordinator

pdickin@bgsu.edu

212 East Hall
419-372-7545

Degrees and Institutions: 

Ph.D., (2000) BGSU
M.A., American Culture Studies (1989) BGSU
B.A., American Literature (1985) University of Sussex, Brighton, UK

Courses Regularly Taught: Countering the Counterculture: Methodologies, Practices, Poetics, Teaching Literature, Postmodern Fiction, Senior Thesis Workshop, Nation, Class, and Identity in British Film and Literature From Bond to Blair ,Postmodern Fiction, Writing in a Postmodern Age: Contemporary American Literature 1945-2000, The San Francisco Renaissance and the Birth of Counterculture, 1955-68, Contemporary Multiethnic American Literature, Introduction to Literary and Critical Theory, Literature of the Beat Generation, Terrorism and the Media, The Literatures of Trauma, American Literature Survey 1865-1945, American Literature Survey 1600-1945, Introduction to Literature, Literature of the Iraq War

Area: Postwar American literature and culture, 19thC American realism

Research Interests: Beat studies, Everyday Life studies, critical theory, postwar American literature and culture

Recent Publications:

Review of Erik R. Mortensen, Capturing the Beat Moment: Cultural Politics and the Poetics of Presence. Invited. The Beat Review. 5.1 (April 2011)

Review of Todd F. Tietchen, The Cubalogues: Beat Writers in Revolutionary Havana. Invited. The Beat Review. 4.4 (December 2010).

Review of Adilifu Nama, Black Space: Imagining Race in Science Fiction Film. Invited. Black Camera: An International Film Journal. 1.2 (Summer 2010). 161-164.