James F. Knapp
Professor of English
412-624-6090
knapp@fcas.pitt.edu
CL 917
James F. Knapp teaches and writes on literary and cultural history, including Anglo-Irish literature, and Modernism in literature and the visual arts.Professor Knapp has integrated multi-media computer technology into his teaching for many years, and is a past chair of the MLA Committee on Information Technology in Teaching and Research.
Research and Publications: He is the author of Literary Modernism and the Transformation of Work, and Ezra Pound, as well as the Norton Poetry Workshop, a multi-media CD-ROM introduction to poetry, published in conjunction with the Norton Anthology of Poetry, and editor of the Norton Poetry Workshop Online. His articles have dealt with such topics as primitivism in modern art, nationalism, modern poetry, and the culture of modernity. He is currently working on the Arts and Crafts Movements in the United States and Ireland.
Teaching
Graduate Courses
- Irish Literary Renaissance
- Seminar in Modernism
- Film and Modernism
- History and Representation
- Modern Poetry
- Advanced Criticism
- Primitivism and the Modern
- The Avant-Garde
- Modern/Postmodern
- Seminar in Teaching Poetry
Undergraduate Courses
- Irish Literature
- The Modernist Tradition
- Introduction to Poetry
- Senior Seminar in Poetry and Digital Media
- The Medieval Imagination
- Imagining the Future (Freshman Studies)
- 20th Century American Literature
- Literature, Tradition and the New
- 20th Century Poetry
Other Duties & Service
- Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs -School of Arts and Sciences
