Joshua Patrick Calandrella (1996- )

Joshua Patrick Calandrella is a PhD candidate in Literature and Criticism where he is also the President of the English Graduate Organization at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. His literary studies weave together the regrowth of twentieth-century Yiddish Poetry after the Holocaust and the layering of Jewish literary history across space and time. He also studies Biblical Hebrew, Chassidic literature, World Mythology, Latin American Literature, and the interweaving of Romanticism and Mysticism in European and American novels. When he is not teaching English Composition at the University of Pittsburgh Johnstown, Joshua writes poetry and leads multilingual reading communities in his surrealist yeshiva.