Alex E. Blazer

Alex E. Blazer is Professor of English at Georgia College & State University. After studying literature and photography at Denison University, he earned a Ph.D. in twentieth-century literature and critical theory at The Ohio State University. He has also taught at the University of Louisville and Grand Valley State University.

 

His poetry scholarship focused on the relationship between critical theory and American poetry in the 1970s and 1980s. His research on the contemporary American novel examines the relationship between postmodern culture and existential madness. Recently, he has published published a journal article on the film Donnie Darko and presented conference papers on the graphic novel Fight Club 2 by Chuck Palahniuk, the television show Twin Peaks, and the debut novel A Short Film about Disappointment by Joshua Mattson.

 

He teaches a variety of courses in twenty- and twenty-first century American literature, critical theory, and popular culture. Last spring, he taught Introduction to Film Studies and Global Horror Films. Last fall, he taught teaching Composition, Critical Theory, and Evolution of Film. In the spring, he is teaching American Literature and the Postmodern Novel.

 

His administrative and service roles include Secretary of University Senate and Secretary of Executive Committee of University Senate, member of the Master's Exam and Portfolio Committee, and advisor of Sigma Tau Delta and The Film Club.

 

Quote of the Month

 

To reduce the imagination (the actualizing of dreams) to slavery, even when that slavery goes by the gross name of happiness, is to strip oneself of every remnant of the supreme justice that is in each of us.

Acker, Kathy. My Mother: Demonology. Grove, 1993. p. 203-4. / previous

 

Link of the Month

 

Angry Alien / previous

 

Magazines

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Publications

Donnie Darko The Sublime Today Bret Easton Ellis Reading Chuck Palahniuk American Fiction of the 1990s I Am Otherwise Matrix Trilogy American PsychoProgress