John Gorton

John Gorton is a creative writer and scholar of late-twentieth-century literature and film. He received his MA from Clemson University where his research explored how Richard Ford’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Frank Bascombe Series represented the spatial transformations of the American suburbs toward the millennium. His scholarship has earned him both Clemson University’s McGee Fellowship and UC Santa Barbara’s Arnhold Distinguished Research Fellowship. As a graduate student he served as the art liaison and assistant literary editor for The South Carolina Review. At USM, he primarily teaches Academic Writing with a contemporary cinema and social issues theme, where he aims to demystify academic writing by showing how pop-cultural productions often animate the concerns of critical and cultural theory. He makes a home in Midcoast Maine where he is currently at work on his debut book of poetry titled Away.