Jon Hoel

Jon Hoel is a PhD student in literature. His focus is on 20th century modernist poetry and political philosophy. He earned his BA in English at the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, an MFA in creative writing from Sarah Lawrence College, and an MA in literary and cultural studies from Carnegie Mellon University. He is the author of a monograph on Andrei Tarkovsky’s film Stalker, with Liverpool University Press, and has published essays and poems with Joyzine, Lumina, Black Lawrence Press, and elsewhere.

Specializations: 19th century poetry, 20th century poetry, cultural studies, Marxist theory, poetic cinema.