Jed Rasula, Helen S. Lanier Distinguished Professor at the University of Georgia

Jed Rasula's scholarly work has largely been on modern art and literature, with seven books and two anthologies. He has also been involved in literary affairs, with three poetry collections, as editor of a poetry magazine, and serving on the editorial board of another. Before becoming a professor he worked in television and radio, as a graphic designer and bookseller.

"History of Shiver: The Sublime Impudence of Modernism and Acrobatic Modernism from the Avant-Garde to Prehistory are companion volumes carving forking paths from early German Romanticism through Wagnerism to the proliferation of international avant-gardes and the global convulsions of jazz before following the ungrounding of these upheavals back to prehistoric precedents in cave painting, reading modernism as a "renaissance of the archaic." With the prodigious and perhaps unprecedented range and variety of materials these volumes convene across nine hundred pages, Rasula has demonstrated that it is indeed possible to develop a research practice and a prose style adequate to the sheer profusion of modernist precedent." -- Nathan Brown, Boundary 2

"Rasula's knowledge is impressively vast, covering different languages, media, and disciplines. this knowledge allows him to cast his net wide and present wonderfully startling connections." -- Angela Frattarola, Modern Language Review

"Rasula (Univ. of Georgia) provides a fresh and invigorating account of modernism that resists definition or taxonomy and is instead dense with quotations, examples, and information. Rasula spans Europe, North America, Latin America, and East Asia, and traces affinities and influences among music, painting, sculpture, architecture, and literature. ... This book shines new light on a vast topic many have thought already illuminated." -- G. Grieve-Carlson, CHOICE