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Joseph O. Aimone
University of Houston Downtown
English Department
One Main
Houston, Texas 77002
713.221.8142
aimonej@uhd.edu
Joseph O. Aimone, assistant professor of English at the University of Houston Downtown, has been nominated for several awards in the areas of humanities, teaching, and scholastic achievement. He is the co-editor of Straight with a Twist: Straight Readings and Queer Theory and the co-translator of Founding Fictions of the Dutch Caribbean: Cola Debrot’s "My Black Sister" and Boeli van Leeuwen's A Stranger on Earth. He has published poems in a number of literary journals.
Presentations
- Besides Hughes: Other Facets of Harlem Renaissance Poetry
- Natural Selection and the Human Love of Poetry
- Robert Frost as a Love Poet
- Talking Poetry: Slam and the Spoken Word Renaissance
- Thoroughly Modern Millay
- What's Love Got to Do with Poetry?