John Hicks

• Educational Background & Specialties
• Publications
• Courses

Educational Background & Specialties

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Educational Background

• PhD: English, Cornell University
• MA: English, Cornell University
• BA: English, Religious Studies, French, University of Virginia

Specialties

• poetry and poetics
• aesthetic theory
• comparative literature
• performance scores
• literature and visual arts
• interdisciplinary avant-garde movements
• prosody
• structuralism
• queer aesthetics
• Walt Whitman
• genre theory
• digital humanities

Publications

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Publications

• The Scores Project: Experimental Notation in Music, Art, Poetry, and Dance, 1950–1975, ed. Michael Gallope, Natilee Harren, and John Hicks (Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2025), https://www.getty.edu/publications/scores/. [Also available in paperback (essays only) ISBN 978-1-60606-933-2]

• John Hicks, “Whitman’s Lyrics?,” in Ryan Dobran and Jonathan Culler, eds., “Essays on Lyric Address,” special issue of Thinking Verse 4, no. 1 (2014): 79–109.

• John Hicks, “Sensus Communis: On the Possibility of Dissent in Kant’s ‘Universal Assent,’” Diacritics 40, no. 4 (2012): 106-29.

• John Hicks, “An Aesthetics of the Given in Rei Terada’s Looking Away,” Journal of Philosophy: A Cross-Disciplinary Inquiry 6, no. 14 (2011): 66-67.

Courses

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Courses

• CSCL 3352W Queer Aesthetics and Critique
• CSCL 3122 Movements and Manifestos
• CSCL 1501W Reading History: Theory and Practice
• CSCL 1401W Reading Literature: Theory and Practice
• CSCL 1301W Reading Culture: Theory and Practice