Jed Rasula has been the Helen S. Lanier Distinguished Professor at UGA since 2001, and is currently serving a term as Head of the English Department. He received his PhD from UC Santa Cruz in the History of Consciousness Program. Before pursuing a doctoral degree, Rasula worked in radio and television in Hollywood, and edited the poetry magazine Wch Way (1976-84). From 1990-2000 he was on the editorial board of the journal Sulfur. His poetry titles include Tabula Rasula (1986) and Hot Wax, or Psyche’s Drip(2007), as well as numerous translations in his anthologies Burning City: Poems of Metropolitan Modernityco-edited with Tim Conley (2012) and Imagining Language co-edited with Steve McCaffery (1998).

Rasula’s scholarly titles include a history of Dada, Destruction Was My Beatrice (Basic Books 2015) and, forthcoming, History of a Shiver: The Sublime Impudence of Modernism (Oxford 2015). Previous publications include The American Poetry Wax Museum (1996), This Compost: Ecological Imperatives in American Poetry (2002), Syncopations: The Stress of Innovation in Contemporary American Poetry (2004), and Modernism and Poetic Inspiration: The Shadow Mouth (2009).