Faculty

Jason Roush has taught writing, literature, and interdisciplinary courses on cultural studies at Emerson College since 1998-99, and since 2000 he has also served as Faculty Assistant to the Director of the Honors Program. Courses that Jason Roush has taught at Emerson College include the First-Year Honors Seminar (HS101/HS102), the Honors Writing Symposium (HS103), Culture and Identity (IN152), The Evolution of Queer Identity: History, Literature, and Theory (IN404), Topics in American Literature: Gay and Lesbian Authors (LI204), U.S. Multicultural Visions (LI208), and International Women Writers (LI396). While his array of courses widely represents his academic pursuits, his background and foremost interest is in creative writing. His poems, criticism, and other writings have appeared in Best Gay Poetry 2008, Brooklyn Review, Cimarron Review, The Fossil Record, The Gay and Lesbian Review Worldwide, The James White Review, Isle Review, Lambda Book Report, artsMEDIA, Out Magazine, Provincetown Magazine, Verse Daily, the anthology This New Breed: Gents, Bad Boys and Barbarians 2, and Bay Windows, for which he wrote a pop music review column. His first book, After Hours, a collection of nightlife and nostalgia poems, was published by Windstorm Creative in November of 2005, and his second collection, Breezeway, the daylight counterpart to his debut volume, was released in September of 2007. His third and latest book of poetry, Crosstown, was published by Orchard House Press in February of 2009.