Student Profile

Jordan Burke

PhD, English

About

Jordan Burke holds a doctorate in English from the University of Virginia, where he studied modern and contemporary literature and culture as a Jefferson Fellow. His current book project, “Profession of the Unseen,” follows a network of postcolonial scholar poets whose work between fields shapes contemporary approaches to form, culture, and the global departmentalization of literature. He received his B.A. in art history and English from the University of South Carolina and, after managing an art gallery in Washington D.C., received his M.A. in religion from Yale University. His writing is published or forthcoming in PMLA, Studies in Romanticism, and Religion and Literature, and it has appeared in anthologies on subjects ranging from Romanticism to modernism.

Works

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The Fire at Paa ya Paa

The Fire at Paa ya Paa

Creating space for performance and innovation in a milieu increasingly defined by assassination, surveillance, and exile

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The Christmas Rebellion: Kamau Brathwaite and the Sound of Black Power

The Christmas Rebellion: Kamau Brathwaite and the Sound of Black Power

The sometimes resistant, sometimes creolized sounds of the struggle for freedom