Richard A Nanian

Richard A Nanian

Richard A Nanian

Professor

Literature: Poetics, Romanticism, Postmodernism.

Richard Nanian received an M.A. in English with both Literature and Creative Writing (playwriting) concentrations from Salem State College, and a Ph.D. in English with a Literary Studies concentration from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He has taught both literature and writing courses at George Mason since 2000. His interests include poetics, the effects of language on cognition, and English and American Romanticism. His book Plerosis/Kenosis: Poetic Language and its Energies (Lang, 2012) has been called "an original and bold attempt to conceptualize both the anatomy and history of modern poetry that has the philosophical sweep, critical sophistication, and elegant clarity of a Northrop Frye or a Kenneth Burke." He is assistant editor of the Journal of Romanticism