Associate Professor
johnstdd@slu.edu
Humanities 122
314.977.3013

Devin Johnston received his Ph.D. in English from the University of Chicago in 1999. His research interests include Contemporary and Modern American literature and Creative Writing in Poetry and Fiction. He has written several works of poetry, and he is currently writing a book of essays on birds, pastoralism, and poverty in modern poetry.

EDUCATION
M.A. Univeristy of Chicago (1994)
Ph.D. University of Chicago (1999)

TEACHING & RESEARCH INTERESTS
American Modernism, Contemporary American, British, and Irish poetry, Creative Writing (Poetry and Fiction)

BOOKS
Precipitations: Contemporary American Poetry as Occult Practice. Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, 2002.

ARTICLES
“Reading Aidan Higgins.” Context 11 (2002).

“Basil Bunting.” British Literature. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2001.

“Nathaniel Mackey and Lost Time: ‘The Phantom Light of All Our Day.’” Callaloo 23.2 (2000).

“Resistance to the Message: James Merrill’s Occult Epic.” Contemporary Literature 41.2 (Spring 2000).

POETRY
Book: Aversions. Richmond, California: Omnidawn Press, 2004.

Broadside: Cat. New York: The Cultural Foundation, 2002.

Book: Telepathy. Sydney: Paper Bark Press, 2001.

Chapbook: Aversion. Orono: Backwoods Broadsides, 2001.

Chapbook: Molloy & Mollose. New York: 811 Books, 1999.

POETRY IN JOURNALS
“The Art of Autobiography.” Boston Review 28:5 (December 2003).

“November” and “Los Angeles.” Notre Dame Review 13 (Winter 2002).

“The Roman World.” Meanjin 61:3 (2002).

“Thinking of Velasquez,” “Dry Star,” “Character,” and “Two Songs.” Chicago Review 47:3 (2001).

“Thunder Road.” Verse (Spring 2001).

“Accidental Species” and “Smoke.” New American Writing 17 (2001).

“Faces.” New American Writing 18 (2000).

“Telepathy.” Fence 2.2 (2000).

“Cat” and “Lost Wallet.” Samizdat 6 (Fall 2000).

“Mechanical.” Facture 1 (2000).

“West.” New American Writing 16 (1998).

“Commentaries on The Witch of Atlas.” Boxkite 2 (1998)

“Vacations,” “Inkling,” “The Ghost,” and “John Eliot's Bible.” apex of the M 5 (1997).

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