Scott Koski

Adjunst Professor
Bachelor of Arts Degree in English, University of Minnesota Duluth, 2013
Master of Arts Degree in English, University of Minnesota Duluth, 2015
Ph.D. in English, St. John’s University, Queens, NY, 2020
Research Interests: Early modern literature, Romanticism, literary & cultural theory
scott.koski@stonybrook.edu
- Biography
biography
Scott Koski is an Adjunct Professor in the English department at Stony Brook University.
His primary field of study is early modern British literature—specifically late sixteenth-century
semi-canonical pamphlets—though his other areas of interest include Romanticism, literary
and cultural theory, & pop culture. He has been teaching literature and writing courses
since 2013, first in Minnesota and now in New York. Before coming to Stony Brook,
he served as the Digital Scholarship Manager at The City College of New York where
he worked on the Open Educational Resource Initiative and assisted faculty on numerous
digital projects from across campus and disciplines. Prior to academia, Scott had
a career as a chef in the Minneapolis metro area for over a decade.
Dissertation:
Hidden in Detail: Triangulating Shakespeare through Sixteenth-Century Prose Pamphlets
Publications:
“Remixing Homer on the Postcolonial Frontier of Serenity.” Journal of Contemporary Rhetoric, vol. 7, no. 2/3, 2017, pp. 149-157.
“Academia in the Pandemic: The Limits of Empathy and Compassion.” Survive and Thrive: A Journal for Medical Humanities and Narrative as Medicine, vol. 6, iss. 1, Article 22.
- Courses Taught at Stony Brook
EGL 130: Literature, Science, and Technology
EGL 204: Literary Analysis & Argumentation
EGL 301: Comedies and Romances of the Early Modern Period
EGL 311: Metaphysics, Ideology, and the “Post…”
EGL 311: Capital, Material, and Culture
EGL 380: Pamphlets of Elizabethan London: The Forgotten Genre
WRT 102: Intermediate Writing Workshop