Research and teaching areas:
My research areas include
Renaissance French literature,
Modernism (primarily Eliot and
Yeats), classical Hollywood cinema,
Golden Age comic book history,
ancient and postpostmodern
manifestations of the epic, and
rhizomatic representations of the
above.
Chad Parmenter
As a second year Ph.D. student in the creative writing program, I focus on poetry, and am currently concentrating my writing on the subcategories of fixed form, primarily the sonnet; poetry in translation, especially that of Renaissance France; and persona.
Education
MFA, Creative Writing-Poetry, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale, 2005
BA, University of Central MO, 1999
Selected Publications
A Tech's Ode to the Human Genome Computer. Best American Poetry 2007. Selected by editor Heather McHugh. bestamericanpoetry.com
Eliot's Echolocation of Yeats. The Yeats-Eliot Review. The article explores Yeatsian elements of Eliot's work, beginning with his conspicuous absence and ending with "Little Gidding.
3 Edward Weston poems. The Laurel Review. The poems were accepted after "Weston's Unsent Letters to Modotti," was a finalist in the Laurel Review/Greentower chapbook contest. catpages.nwmissouri.edu
Gospel Sonnet for His New Movie. Cortland Review. The sonnet was originally published in 32poems, and later appeared in Tony Barnstone's essay, "A Manifesto on the Contemporary Sonnet," published by Cortland Review. www.cortlandreview.com
Sonnet Painting Batman at Reagan's Grave. Smartish Pace. The sonnet appeared in their 2006 issue, and was considered as nominee for the Best New Poets anthology. www.smartishpace.com
Detour, Missouri. Verse Daily. The poem originally appeared in Cimarron Review. www.versedaily.org
