New York University

Gregory Erickson received his Ph.D. in English from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York in 2004. His first book, The Absence of God in Modernist Literature, was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2007, and his second book, Religion and Popular Culture: Rescripting the Sacred, coauthored with Richard W. Santana, appeared in 2008, published by McFarland. He has also published in scholarly collections and in journals such as The Henry James Review. Erickson has taught writing at the Gallatin School from 2004 to 2009, specializing in courses on music and literature, including "Writing Twentieth-Century Music and Culture" and "Writing Beyond Language: The Surreal, the Mystical, and the Monstrous." Since 2002, he has also taught writing and world literature at Mannes College, the New School for Music, and directed their Writing Center. For five years, he was the director of the Classical Music Division at the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music. Erickson is a classically trained musician who plays the trombone and is actively performing with orchestras around New York. His training as a literary scholar and classical musician enables him to enrich the curriculum of Gallatin in multiple formats. He will be teaching first-year writing courses on 20th-century music and on popular music and identity, and a first-year seminar on music and literature. Erickson is also planning both an interdisciplinary course and an arts workshop.