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JOSEPH CAMPANA

Campana Ph.D. Cornell University
Assistant Professor

Office: Herring Hall 315
Phone: 713-348-4316
Email: jac4@rice.edu


 
 

Professor Campana is a poet and scholar with essays on Spenser, Shakespeare, early modern poetics, and the history of sexuality in or forthcoming in PMLA, Modern Philology, Shakespeare, and elsewhere. He is the author of a collection of poems, The Book of Faces (Graywolf, 2005) and his poems appear in Colorado Review, Hotel Amerika, New England Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Prairie Schooner, Poetry, and Triquarterly and areforthcoming in Conjunctions, Kenyon Review, Field, and The Cincinnati Review and elsewhere. He is the recipient of a 2007 Creative Writing Fellowship from the NEA. Current projects include Suffering Romance: Edmund Spenser and the Poetics of Experience, which treats pain and lived experience in poetry written in the wake of the Reformation, and The Child’s Two Bodies, a study of sovereignty and sexuality in child roles of the Shakespearean stage.