Alex E. Blazer
Alex E. Blazer is Professor of English at Georgia College & State University. After studying literature and photography at Denison University, he earned a Ph.D. in twentieth-century literature and critical theory at The Ohio State University. He has also taught at the University of Louisville and Grand Valley State University.
His poetry scholarship focused on the relationship between critical theory and American poetry in the 1970s and 1980s. His research on the contemporary American novel examines the relationship between postmodern culture and existential madness. Recently, he has published a journal article on the film Donnie Darko and presented conference papers on the graphic novel Fight Club 2 by Chuck Palahniuk, the television show Twin Peaks, and the debut novel A Short Film about Disappointment by Joshua Mattson.
He teaches a variety of courses in twenty- and twenty-first century American literature, critical theory, and popular culture. Last spring, he taught Global Horror Films, and the Postmodern Film. This fall, he is teaching World Literature, and Methods of Research. He is directing BA Internship, BA Thesis, and MA Thesis and serving on MFA Thesis. Next spring, he will teach World Literature, Critical Theory, and Modern Poetry.
His administrative and service roles include Secretary of University Senate, MA Coordinator, and advisor of Sigma Tau Delta and The Film Club.
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Mankind, which in Homer's time was an object of contemplation for the Olympian gods, now is one for itself. Its self-alienation has reached such a degree that it can experience its own destruction as an aesthetic pleasure of the first order.
Walter Benjamin. "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction." Illuminations, edited by Hannah Arendt, translated by Harry Zohn, Schocken, 1969, p. 242. / previous
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United Nations Human Rights Council / previous
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