John Boly
Associate Professor

My research interests include modern British poetry and contemporary literary theory. I am the author of a book on W.H. Auden's poetry as well as various articles that deal with Auden's prose, modern poetry and the romantic tradition, Gerard Manly Hopkins, Derrida from a phenomenological perspective, deconstruction, and the application of performative theory to literary texts.  I have recently contributed to the Cambridge Companion to W.H. Auden and am working on a study of Irish poet Seamus Heaney.  

My graduate teaching interests range over modern and contemporary British poetry, the rhetorical models of Kenneth Burke, critical formalism in its Russian, New Critical, and poststructuralist modes, cultural criticism, postMarxism, and semiotics. Besides these and other accomplishments, I regularly throw a tennis ball for a finicky golden retriever.

Teaching Fields

• 20th Century British Literature
• Literary Theory

Office Location & Contact

• Coughlin Hall, 243
• 288-6864
• john.boly@mu.edu

Office Hours

• Fall 2008
• TUTH   9:30-11:00

Teaching Schedule

• Fall 2008
• 044/1001   TUTH   11:00-12:15
• 282/1001   TUTH   12:35-1:50

Research Interests

• W.H. Auden
• Seamus Heaney

Selected Publications

• Reading Auden: The Returns of Caliban. Cornell University Press, 1991.
• "Auden and Modern Theory." The Cambridge Companion to W. H. Auden. Ed. Stan Smith. Cambridge Univeristy Press, 2004. 137-51.

Honors/Awards