Nicholas Coles

For other people named Nicholas Coles, see Nicholas Coles (disambiguation).

Nicholas J. H. Coles (born 1947 Leeds, England) is a British-American scholar in working-class literature and composition studies, and is Associate Professor of English and Director of Composition at the University of Pittsburgh. ^[1]

Life

He holds BA and MA degrees from Oxford University (Coles was educated at Balliol College, where he was awarded a first-class undergraduate degree), and he holds MA and PhD degrees from the State University of New York at Buffalo. His 1981 PhD dissertation was The Making of a Monster: The Working Class in the Industrial Novels and Social Investigations of 1830–1855.

He writes and teaches about literacy, pedagogy, contemporary poetry, and teacher-research. His best-known book, Working Classics (1990), co-edited with Peter Oresick, was the first to highlight a seldom acknowledged working-class presence within contemporary American poetry.^[2]

He is also Field Director of the National Writing Project, based at the University of California at Berkeley. He directed until 2002 the Western Pennsylvania Writing Project, a site of the National Writing Project, working to improve students’ writing and academic performance in K-12 schools.

Family

He has lived in the United States since the 1970s, primarily in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He currently lives with author and painter Jennifer Matesa and their 12-year-old son Jonathan in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Works

• Nicholas Coles, Peter Oresick, ed (1995). For a living: the poetry of work. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 9780252064104. http://books.google.com/books?id=ZDIa10WKf28C&printsec=frontcover&dq=nicholas+coles&hl=en&ei=sCA3TfzkNYSBlAftyY3eAg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCcQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false. 
• Peter Oresick, Nicholas Coles, ed (1990). Working classics: poems on industrial life. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 9780252061332. http://books.google.com/books?id=1s9g0O9mKxgC&printsec=frontcover&dq=nicholas+coles&hl=en&ei=-CA3TaexAcHflge6zfitAw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CC0Q6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q&f=false. 
• Nicholas Coles, Janet Zandy, ed (2007). American working-class literature: an anthology. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780195144567. 

References

1. ^ Nicholas Coles webpage at the University of Pittsburgh
2. ^ Oxford University Press website for Nicholas Coles

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