Benedict Giamo

Associate Professor
Department of American Studies

Degrees

B.A., Baldwin-Wallace College; M.A., New School For Social Research; Ph.D., Emory University

Research Profile

Giamo's interests include literary and cultural studies, poverty and homelessness, and creative nonfiction. His most recent book, Kerouac, the Word and the Way, examines the prose art of Jack Kerouac as an expression of an ever shifting spiritual quest. His other books include The Homeless of Ironweed, a study of William Kennedy's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel; Beyond Homelessness: Frames of Reference (with Jeffrey Grunberg); and On the Bowery: Confronting Homelessness in American Society. He has recently completed a book-length manuscript in the genre of creative nonfiction entitled "Homeless Come Home: An Advocate, the Riverbank, and Murder in Topeka, Kansas."

Contact Information

168 Decio Faculty Hall
631-7142
giamo.1@nd.edu