John N. Serio

Professor of Humanities
276 Bertrand H. Snell Hall
E-mail: serio@clarkson.edu
Phone: 315-268-3987

Education
B.S., State University College at Buffalo
M.A., Northwestern University
Ph.D., University of Notre Dame

Courses Taught
  • American Literature I and II
  • Modern American Poetry
  • Studies in Short Fiction

Scholarly Interests

A specialist in poetry, Professor Serio edits The Wallace Stevens Journal and has recently completed two volumes in Sterling Publishing's Poetry for Young People series, one on Wallace Stevens and another on Seasons. He is currently editing a Cambridge Companion to Wallace Stevens.

Publications
Editor, The Wallace Stevens

Poetry for Young People: Wallace Stevens. Ed. and intro. John N. Serio. New York: Sterling Publishing Co., Inc., 2004.

Online Concordance to Wallace Stevens' Poetry. With Greg Foster. (http://www.wallacestevens.com), 2004.

"Prologues of Stevens Criticism in Fifty Years." Wallace Stevens Journal 28.2 (Fall 2004): 226–230.

General editor and publisher, The Poetry of Delmore Schwartz, by Robert H. Deutsch, Potsdam, NY: The Wallace Stevens Society Press, 2003;

Edited and wrote the Introduction to a special issue on "The Poetics of Place in the Poetry of Wallace Stevens," The Wallace Stevens Journal 27.1 (Spring 2003).

Presentations
"Prologues of Stevens Criticism in Fifty Years." Celebrating Wallace Stevens: The Poet of Poets in Connecticut. University of Connecticut, Storrs (April 9, 2004).