Spring 2026 English UN3300 section 001

Poetry and New Media

Call Number 16663
Day & Time
Location
R 2:10pm-4:00pm
To be announced
Points 4
Grading Mode Standard
Approvals Required None
Instructor Paul Stephens
Type SEMINAR
Method of Instruction In-Person
Course Description

This course examines how poets have engaged with emerging media in the postwar era. We will trace the intersections of poetry with photography, television, video, visual and concrete poetry, and digital environments, and we will consider how shifts in media reshape ideas of authorship, reading, and the materiality of language. Readings to include Marshall McLuhan, John Cage, Frank O’Hara, Charles Olson, Amiri Baraka, Alison Knowles, Hollis Frampton, N.H. Pritchard, Gil Scott-Heron, Jayne Cortez, Bernadette Mayer, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Tan Lin, Glenn Ligon, Jordan Abel, Lillian-Yvonne Bertram, and Nick Montfort.

Web Site Vergil
Department English and Comparative Literature
Enrollment 11 students (18 max) as of 11:12PM Thursday, November 27, 2025
Subject English
Number UN3300
Section 001
Division Interfaculty
Open To Columbia College, Engineering:Undergraduate, Global Programs, General Studies
Note Dist req: 1900-present, poetry, American
Section key 20261ENGL3300W001