Trevor Jockims
Part-time Faculty
tlj3@nyu.edu
509 - 1 Wash Pl
Office Hours
Monday 1:45-3:30
Wednesday 1:45-3:30
B.A., English Literature, St. Mary's University, 1999
M.A., Literary Theory, University of Saskatchewan, 2001
M.A., English Literature, University of Massachusetts, 2005
Ph.D., Comparative Literature, CUNY Graduate Center, 2013
Trevor Laurence Jockims’s teaching and research interests center on literature in its interaction with other modes of thought and expression, particularly the visual arts and philosophy. Additionally, he works on the Digital Humanities, experimental and avant-garde cinema, as well as the contemporary American and European novel. Prior to coming to New York University, Jockims taught literature and film at various CUNY campuses, including Hunter College and City College. He has published articles and book chapters on ekphrastic poetry, photography, the documentary film essay, pastoral lyric, and representations of war in Eastern European cinema. His fiction, reviews, and essays have appeared in The Times Literary Supplement, Book Forum, The Believer, Descant, and The Journal of Experimental Fiction. Current projects include editing a volume of essays on the relationship between poetry and philosophy, entitled The Ancient Quarrel Between Literature and Philosophy, and a forthcoming article, “The Uncanny Eye: Intersections of Poetry and Photography.”
Teaching and Research Interests
composition and rhetoric; the relationship between the social sciences and the humanities; globalization urban studies migration; the digital humanities; global Shakespeare; film ethnographies essay films; sociology of the everyday; contemporary avant-garde poetry; hyperrealism and hysterical realism in the contemporary novel
Courses
2023 Spring
First-Year Research Seminar: Money and the Muse: Culture, Creativity, and Capital
Transfer Student Research Seminar: Examining the Mundane: Art and Literature of the Everyday
2023 Fall
Transfer Student Research Seminar: Examining the Mundane: Art and Literature of the Everyday
First-Year Writing Seminar: Abundance: Thinking, Writing, and Creating In The Age of Plenty
2022 Spring
Transfer Student Research Seminar: Examining the Mundane: Art and Literature of the Everyday
2022 Fall
First-Year Writing Seminar: Abundance: Thinking, Writing, and Creating In The Age of Plenty
2021 Spring
Transfer Student Research Seminar: Examining the Mundane: Art and Literature of the Everyday
