Jimmy Fazzino
Education:
PhD, Literature, University of California, Santa Cruz
“Manifestos and Provocations,” William Burroughs in Context, ed. Oliver Harris, Davis Schneiderman, and Alex Wermer-Colan (Cambridge, forthcoming)
“Teaching the Road Novel with Jack Kerouac,” The Beats: A Teaching Companion, ed. Nancy M. Grace (Clemson, 2021)
“Inside the Whale: William Burroughs and the World,” b2o: an online journal (December 2017)
“Amiri Baraka’s Revolutionary Theatre: Black Power Politics, Avant-Garde Poetics,” Beat Drama: Playwrights and Performances of the “Howl” Generation, ed. Deborah Geis (Bloomsbury, 2016)
“The Beat Manifesto: Avant-Garde Poetics and the Worlded Circuits of African American Beat Surrealism,” The Transnational Beat Generation, ed. Nancy M. Grace and Jennie Skerl (Palgrave, 2012)
“A Trap Well-Enough Woven of Words: The Many Worlds of Brion Gysin’s The Process,” Journal of Beat Studies 1 (2012)
Why I Teach in Honors:
First and foremost it’s because of the amazing students, who constantly inspire and challenge me to become the best teacher I can be. Then it’s the wide-ranging curriculum that spans continents and centuries while offering maximum flexibility in the classroom. Finally it’s the opportunity to work with a great group of colleagues from across the disciplines. The Honors program is truly a community of scholars, and I’m honored to be a part of it.