Professor
Phone: (239)590-7171
E-Mail: jbrock@fgcu.edu
Office: RH - 227

B.A., The College of Idaho, 1981
M.F.A., Indiana University, 1984
Ph.D., Indiana University, 1992

Teaching and research interests: 20th-Century Literature, Creative Writing, Composition

Professor Brock has been teaching at FGCU since 1998, after having been something of an academic Kelly Girl, teaching at universities in Indiana, Tennessee, Idaho, Pennsylvania, and Miami, before landing in Fort Myers. In Southwest Florida, he participates in various environmental and cultural organizations, treasuring such places as the FGCU Theater Lab, Arts for ACT Gallery, the Alliance for the Arts, Bunch Beach, Ding Darling Refuge, and Six Mile Cypress Slough. His current poetry project includes finishing separate sequences on Hannah Nixon, the mother of Richard M. Nixon, and on dance. A native of Idaho, he is a big fan of Matthew Barney, Boise State football, and Picabo Street.

Publications

• Gods & Money (WordTech Editions, 2010)
• Pictures That Got Small (WordTech Editions, 2005)
• nearly Florida (Anhinga, 2000)
• The Sunshine Mine Disaster (U. of Idaho, 1995)

Awards

• National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship
• Alex Haley Fellowship