Nicholas Coles
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Nicholas Joe Howard Coles (born Nov. 11, 1947 in Leeds, England) is a British-American scholar in working-class literature and composition studies, and is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Pittsburgh.[https://www.english.pitt.edu/people/nicholas-coles]
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 titled The Making of a Monster: The Working Class in the Industrial Novels and Social Investigations of 1830–1855.
He wrote and taught about literacy, pedagogy, contemporary poetry, and teacher-research. His best-known book, Working Classics (1990), co-edited with Peter Oresick, was the first scholarly work to highlight a seldom acknowledged working-class presence within contemporary American poetry.[http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/LiteratureEnglish/AmericanLiterature/~~/dmlldz11c2EmY2k9OTc4MDE5NTE0NDU2Nw== Oxford University Press website for Nicholas Coles]
In the 1990s he was also a field director of the National Writing Project (NWP). From the late 1980s until 2002 he directed the Western Pennsylvania Writing Project, a site of the NWP, working to improve children's writing and academic performance in K-12 schools in the Western Pennsylvania region.
Family
Coles is the eldest of four children. His father, John Howard Coles, was educated at Jesus College, Cambridge, and served as a solicitor in Leeds, England, having co-founded the law firm Walker Morris [https://www.walkermorris.co.uk/]. Coles has lived in the United States since 1972 and is a citizen. He has lived in Buffalo, N.Y.; Boulder, Colo.; and primarily in Pittsburgh, Pa. In 1990 he separated from his ex-wife Annie Kraft, the mother of his elder son, in order to establish a relationship with psychotherapist, author, and artist Jennifer Matesa, whom he married in 1994; they had a son, Jono Coles (now an architect).
Works
- {{cite book| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZDIa10WKf28C&q=nicholas+coles| title=For a Living: The Poetry of Work | editor1= Nicholas Coles |editor2=Peter Oresick | publisher= University of Illinois Press| year= 1995 | isbn= 978-0-252-06410-4 }}
- {{cite book| url=https://archive.org/details/workingclassicsp00ores| url-access=registration| quote=nicholas coles.| title=Working Classics: Poems on Industrial Life | editor1= Peter Oresick |editor2=Nicholas Coles | publisher= University of Illinois Press| year= 1990| isbn= 978-0-252-06133-2 }}
- {{cite book| title=American Working-Class Literature: An Anthology | editor1= Nicholas Coles |editor2=Janet Zandy | publisher= Oxford University Press| year= 2007| isbn= 978-0-19-514456-7 }}
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Category:Writers from Pittsburgh