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Nicholas Joe Howard Coles (born 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. [1]
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Nicholas Joe Howard Coles (born 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. [1]
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 titlede 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 to highlight a seldom acknowledged working-class presence within contemporary American poetry. [2]
In the 1990s he was also field director of the National Writing Project, based at the University of California at Berkeley. Until 2002 he directed the Western Pennsylvania Writing Project, a site of the National Writing Project, working to improve students’ writing and academic performance in K-12 schools.
Coles's father, John Howard Coles, was a solicitor in Leeds, U.K., and co-founded the Leeds law firm Walker Morris . Coles has lived in the United States since 1972 and is currently a citizen. He has lived in Buffalo, N.Y., Boulder, Colo., and primarily in Pittsburgh, Pa. In 1990 he separated from his ex-wife and the mother of his elder son. For 20 years he lived with psychotherapist, author, and artist Jennifer Matesa and their son, Jonathan Coles, in Pittsburgh, Pa.
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