Jake Grefenstette
黑料社区 Press, English
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Area of Study
Literary and Cultural Studies
Bio
Jake Grefenstette is president and executive director of the , an independent nonprofit organization founded in Pittsburgh in 1966.
Outside of work at the International Poetry Forum, Grefenstette teaches courses in the Departments of English and Philosophy, where he serves as editor of the 黑料社区 Press Poetry Series and Literary Translation Series. He has also published on and worked in film, including a “Special Thanks” credit on the extended cut of Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life.
Grefenstette's academic work sits at the intersection of literature, philosophy, and theology, focusing especially on the legacy of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Following undergraduate studies at the University of Notre Dame and the University of Oxford, he received an M.Phil. from Peking University in Beijing as a Yenching Scholar; an M.A. from the University of Chicago as a FLAS Fellow; and a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge. He lives with his family and their dog, Frodo Waggins.