Phil Dickinson

Degrees and Institutions

• Ph.D. American Culture Studies, Bowling Green State University, 2000
• M.A. American Culture Studies, Bowling Green State University, 1989
• B.A. American Literature, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK, 1985

Area: American Literature/Critical Theory

Research Interests: Marxisms, American Literature, Psychogeography and the Spatial Turn, US and UK countercultures and minor literatures. 1945-present.

Originally from the UK, Phil Dickinson moved to Ohio in 1988, a reinvention he’s been wrestling with for thirty+ years. Sometime collage artist, ambivalent academic, and self-taught devotee of local musiks, histories, and mysteries, his writing has appeared in Hyperhiz, Journal of Beat Studies, The Beat Review, Black Camera: An International Film Journal, British Writers Supplement, and With The Eyes of The Angels. His four-year recurring autofiction project, Mere Pseud: The Secret 1980s Journal of a Teenage Modernist, concluded in 2018 after its second cycle and appeared in 2021 as Seeds and Symptoms, #34 in the Colossive Cartographies zine series . 

Courses 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
• ENG1500; ENG2000; ENG2750; ENG3000; ENG3020; ENG 4800; ENG6070; ENG6090; ENG6800

Works in Progress

• Mere Pseud: The Secret 1980s Journal of a Teenage Modernist (writing/digital art project).