Brandon Rushton
Ph.D.
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- brushton@nd.edu
Areas of Expertise
Poetry and poetics; creative writing; 20th and 21st century American literature and culture; Avant Garde, experimental, and hybrid forms; lyric theory; material, memory, and archival studies; historiography; philosophy of history; ecocriticism
Biography
Brandon Rushton is the author of The Air in the Air Behind It (Tupelo Press, September 2022), which was selected by Bin Ramke for the 2020 Berkshire Prize. He is also the author of the chapbook, Archaeologies (
Publications
Book
The Air in the Air Behind It (Tupelo Press, 2022)
Chapbook
Archaeologies (Aureole Press, 2024)
Poetry (selected)
“Archaeology,” Passages North
“Calisthenics,” Gulf Coast
“Public Works,” World Literature Today
“The Waylayer,” Annulet: A Journal of Poetry & Poetics
“Instructions for Stepping Out of Line at a Theme Park,” Southern Humanities Review
“Imitate Inanimate,” The Journal
“Milankovitch Cycles,” Miracle Monocle
Creative Nonfiction
“The Unincorporated Bridge,” Terrain.org
“Inarguably Au Sable,” Alaska Quarterly Review
Peer Reviewed Book Chapters
“Open House”: Prying and Potential in an Early Poem,” A Field Guide to the Poetry of Theodore Roethke (Ohio University Press, 2020)
Literary Book Reviews
“The Piecewise Way We Remember,” Poetry Northwest
“We didn’t want to be good to each other”: On Philip Schaefer’s Bad Summon,” Kenyon Review
“The Epistolary Ambivalence”: On Balance in Dustin Pearson’s Millennial Roost,” Michigan Quarterly Review
The Air in the Air Behind It (Tupelo Press, 2022)