Biography
Educational Background
PhD, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
MA, Baylor University
Interests and Specializations
Southern Literature, American Literature, British Romanticism, American Transcendentalism, Contemporary Poetry, Appalachian Literature, The Personal Essay, Gender Studies, Psychoanalytic Theory, Narratology, Post-Colonial Theory, Poststructuralism and Discourse Theory.
About
Joel Peckham is a poet, essayist, and scholar. He has published eleven collections of poetry and nonfiction, most recently Any Moonwalker Can Tell You: New and Selected Poems, (SFAU), Gone The Sun (UnCollected Press), Body Memory (New Rivers), and the spoken word LP, Still Running: Words and Music by Joel Peckham (EAT poems). His new and selected poems, Any Moonwalker Can Tell You is forthcoming from SFAU in the late spring of 2024. With Robert Vivian, he also co-edited the anthology, Wild Gods: The Ecstatic in Contemporary Poetry and Prose. His scholarly work on Eudora Welty, Ralph Ellison, James Dickey, Minnie Bruce Pratt, and Jean Toomer, has appeared in Texas Studies in Literature and Language, American Literature, The Midwest Quarterly, The Southern Literary Journal, and others. His monograph, Outraged and Amazed: Transgressing the South in Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom!, appeared from Cambridge Scholars in 2018.