Al Filreis's guest appearances

Al Filreis

MIT Comparative Media Studies/Writing

PennSound Podcasts

Close Listening

Engaging Students Through Technology 2012 Symposium

John Tranter

P. Inman

Cameron Esposito

Jane McGonigal

Lynn Nottage

Toni Morrison

Norman Fischer

John Jennings

Walt Whitman

Chris Claremont

Scott McCloud

John Hodgman

Scott Nicholson

Eric Weinstein

Denis Dyack

OwlTail

William J. Harris

Al Filreis interviews William J. Harris in Brooklyn, NY.

Episode 49 - Al Filreis interviews William J. Harris

Al Filreis has taught his “ModPo” course at Penn for years; in Fall 2012 he offered a 10-week version of the course online, via Coursera, to more than 36,000 students. The course, as in its previous versions, does not include lectures, being based instead on discussion – the collaborative close readings of poems. The course grows out of Filreis’s work at the Kelly Writers House; he has been Faculty Director of this literary freespace since its founding in 1995. Filreis is also co-founder of PennSound, the Web’s main free archive of poetry readings, publisher of Jacket2 magazine, and producer and host of “PoemTalk,” a podcast/radio series of close readings of poems. In conversation with Nick Montfort, Filreis will discuss ModPo and his perspective on writing, teaching, and digital media.Filreis is Kelly Professor of English and Director of the Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Wallace Stevens and the Actual World, Modernism from Right to Left, Counter-Revolution of the Word: The Conservative Attack on Modernism, 1945-60, and other works. He was chosen as Pennsylvania Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation in 2000.Part of the Purple Blurb series, and co-sponsored by the SHASS Dean’s Office and the Literature Section.

Al Filreis has taught his “ModPo” course at Penn for years; in Fall 2012 he offered a 10-week version of the course online, via Coursera, to more than 36,000 students. The course, as in its previous versions, does not include lectures, being based instead on discussion – the collaborative close readings of poems. The course grows out of Filreis’s work at the Kelly Writers House; he has been Faculty Director of this literary freespace since its founding in 1995. Filreis is also co-founder of PennSound, the Web’s main free archive of poetry readings, publisher of Jacket2 magazine, and producer and host of “PoemTalk,” a podcast/radio series of close readings of poems. In conversation with Nick Montfort, Filreis will discuss ModPo and his perspective on writing, teaching, and digital media.<br><br>Filreis is Kelly Professor of English and Director of the Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Wallace Stevens and the Actual World, Modernism from Right to Left, Counter-Revolution of the Word: The Conservative Attack on Modernism, 1945-60, and other works. He was chosen as Pennsylvania Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation in 2000.<br><br>Part of the Purple Blurb series, and co-sponsored by the SHASS Dean’s Office and the Literature Section.

Al Filreis, "Teaching Modern & Contemporary American Poetry to 36k"

Al Filreis - Social Media Relationships

Close Listening: In Conversation with Al Filreis, 2008