Professor Jed Rasula

IAS Open Programme: Dada

University of Georgia, USA

Jed Rasula is the Helen S. Lanier Distinguished Professor at the University of Georgia. 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), Hot Wax, or Psyche’s Drip (2007), and Hectic Pigment (2017) as well as numerous translations in his anthologies Burning City: Poems of Metropolitan Modernity co-edited with Tim Conley (2012) and Imagining Language co-edited with Steve McCaffery (1998).

Rasula’s recent scholarly titles are a history of Dada, Destruction Was My Beatrice (Basic Books 2015), History of a Shiver: The Sublime Impudence of Modernism (Oxford U.P. 2016), and Acrobatic Modernism, from the Avant-Garde to Prehistory (forthcoming 2020, Oxford U.P.).