A native of the San Francisco Bay Area, Geoffrey Minter began teaching at Brooklyn College in Fall 2003. To view his courses at Brooklyn College, visit http://www.sutropark.com/courses.
Degree focus on early American literature (dissertation subject: Boyhood in 19th-Century American Literature and Culture), but broadly interested in American literature from the Puritan era to the current century. Other interests: the Enlightenment and related literary modes (Romanticism, the Gothic, etc.); the traditions of English lyric poetry, chiefly from Spenser to Eliot; aestheticism and decadence; queer representation and theory; literature, history and new historicism; opera and film.