John Edward Martin
Assistant Professor

Contact:
JMartin@latech.edu
318-257-5492
GTM 216

Education:
PhD English     Northwestern University
4 quarters study, Psychology of Religion University of Chicago, School of Divinity
BA English/Religious Studies     Rice University

Research Interests:
Early American literature, American Romanticism, poetry, religious experience, gothic fiction, psychoanalysis

Hobbies/Interests:
Poetry writing, fly-fishing, ethnic cooking, fantasy football, literary road-trips, blues lounges, and coffee shops

Quotes:
"...this world we live in is brimmed with wonders, and I and all mankind, beneath our garbs of common-placeness, conceal enigmas that the stars themselves, and perhaps the highest Seraphim can not resolve"

-- Herman Melville, Pierre

"Like an impossible map the garden of the possible

every moment is
deepened, restored.

Was never born, never,
but could burst into life."

--Federico Garcia Lorca, "The Garden"

Website:
http://www.interfolio.com/portfolio/jmartin/