Jimmy Fazzino

he/him
Lecturer II
English

Courses Taught

ENG 131: The Nature of Story 

ENG 315: Research Writing in the Disciplines HON 101: Foundations of Inquiry

HON 102: Connect: Evidence and Argument

CMJ 201: Rhetorical Theory

Books 

World Beats: Beat Generation Writing and the Worlding of U.S. Literature (Dartmouth, 2016) 

Chapters in Edited Volumes

“Tracking the Serpent: Beat Women Travel Writing On and Off the Road,” in Cambridge History of Beat Women Writing, ed. Steven Belletto and Mary Paniccia Carden (Cambridge, forthcoming)

“Guerrilla War: Manifestos and Provocations,” in William Burroughs in Context, ed. Oliver Harris, Davis Schneiderman, and Alex Wermer-Colan (Cambridge, forthcoming 2026)

“Teaching the Road Novel with Jack Kerouac,” in The Beats: A Teaching Companion, ed. Nancy M. Grace (Clemson, 2021) 

“Amiri Baraka’s Revolutionary Theatre: Black Power Politics, Avant-Garde Poetics,” in 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,” in The Transnational Beat Generation, ed. Nancy M. Grace and Jennie Skerl (Palgrave, 2012) 

Peer-Reviewed Articles

“Inside the Whale: William Burroughs and the World,” boundary 2 online (December 2017) 

“A Trap Well-Enough Woven of Words: The Many Worlds of Brion Gysin’s The Process,” Journal of Beat Studies 1 (2012) 

Book Reviews

Review of Rethinking Kerouac: Afterlives, Continuities, Reappraisals, ed. Erik Mortenson and Tomaz Sawczuk, European Journal of American Studies (forthcoming)
Review of Beat Atlas: A State by State Guide to the Beat Generation in America, by Bill Morgan, The Beat Review 5.2 (June 2011)

Areas of Expertise

20th-21st-century American Literature
Beat Generation
Bob Dylan
Critical Theory
Modernism and the Avant-Garde
Poetry and Poetics
Transnational Literatures

Education

PhD, Literature, University of California, Santa Cruz, 2012
BA, English, French, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, 2003, with honors
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