Brian Mornar
Adjunct Instructor
- E-mail: bmornar@luc.edu
About
Brian Mornar teaches the University Core Writing Seminar (UCWR) at Loyola and first-year writing, literature, and creative writing at Columbia College Chicago and at Northwestern University's Center for Talent Development. In a PhD program at University at Buffalo (SUNY), he focused on nineteenth- and twentieth-century American literature, with an emphasis on poetry and poetics.
Degrees
- BA, Beloit College
- MFA, Saint Mary's College of California
- MA, State University of New York at Buffalo
- PhD (ABD), State University of New York at Buffalo
Research Interests
- Twentieth-Century American Poetry and Poetics
- Nineteenth-Century American Literature
- Composition Pedagogy
- Chicago Literature
- Modernism
- Objectivism (Lorine Niedecker, George Oppen)
- Black Mountain Poetry (Charles Olson, Robert Duncan)
- Black Arts and Literature
- Native American Studies
- Ecopoetics
- Documentary Poetics
- Poetics of Hip-Hop
Publications
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Creative work published in: Omniverse (featured poet, Aug. 2013); American Letters and Commentary; Cannot Exist; Upstairs at Duroc; Columbia Poetry Review; VOLT; With+Stand; P-Queue; Jacket2 (review).
Chapbooks:
- Repatterning (Punch Press)
Collections:
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Three American Letters (Little Red Leaves)
