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Burt Kimmelman is a poet and professor of English as well as chair of the department of humanities at NJIT.  Talisman House, Publishers will publish this year his sixth volume of poetry: As If Free.

Kimmelman’s research interests include modern and postmodern literature, especially poetry; interdisciplinary medieval studies; technology and culture, especially aesthetics; textual scholarship; communications technology and epistemology.

Kimmelman is the editor of The Facts on File Companion to 20th-Century American Poetry (Facts on File, Inc., 2005), for which he wrote the introduction, appendices including a general bibliography and a glossary of poetic terms.  He is the co-editor of The Facts on File Companion to American Poetry (Facts on File, Inc., 2007).

Earlier in his career, he wrote a book about William Bronk, a major figure in twentieth-century American poetry, who is known for his deeply philosophical writings in a succinct style.  Kimmelman also authored a book about the emergence of individuality in the poetry of the later Middle Ages in Western Europe and England.  He accounted for this development by examining the philosophy and theology of the era poetry and authors of the late Middle Ages.

Kimmelman received his doctorate in English Literature from City University of New York Graduate Center  (CUNY); his MA in English Literature from Hunter College of CUNY, and his BA in English Literature from the State University of New York, College at Cortland.

Last update: 2/20/09