Faculty Member, School of American Studies
Professor of American Literature and Head of School of American Studies
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Editor, "Comparative American Studies"
RECENT AND UPCOMING PUBLICATIONS:
Chapters in Books:
‘Ecopoetries in America’ in Jennifer Ashton, ed., The Cambridge Companion to American Poetry Post-1945 (Cambridge: CUP, 2011), in press
‘Memory Pieces: collage, memorial and the poetics of intimacy in Joe Brainard, Jasper Johns and Frank O’Hara’ in Robert Hampson and Will Montgomery, eds., Frank O’Hara (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2010), pp. 229-47.
‘“The poem upon the page is as massive as Anne’s thighs”: Textual Promiscuity in Ted Berrigan’s The Sonnets’, in Glennis Byron and Andrew Sneddon, eds., The Body and the Book: Writings on Poetry and Sexuality (Amsterdam & New York: Rodopi, 2008), pp. 83-98. ISBN 978-90-420-2422-9
‘Transatlantic Poetics in H.M.S. Little Fox and Boston – Brighton’, in Robert Sheppard, ed., The Salt Companion to the Works of Lee Harwood (Cambridge: Salt, 2007), pp. 85-103. ISBN: 1-84471-077-5
‘“push … / thing … / other … / work …”: Robert Creeley, William Carlos Williams and the poem as a machine made of words’, in Ian D. Copestake, ed., The Legacy of William Carlos Williams: Points of Contact (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2007), pp. 134-52. ISBN: 1-84718-194-5
‘“A generous time”: Lee Harwood in New York’, in Daniel Kane, ed., Don’t Ever Get Famous: Essays on New York Writing Beyond the ‘New York School’ (New York: Dalkey Archive Press, 2006), pp. 215-41. ISBN: 1-56478-460-6
‘Mythologies of “Ecstatic Immersion”: America, The Poem, and the Ethics of Lyric in Jorie Graham and Lisa Jarnot’, in William Blazek and Michael K. Glenday, eds., American Mythologies: New Essays on Contemporary Literature (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2005), pp. 202-25. ISBN: 0-85323-736-0 / 0-85323-746-8
Essays in Journals:
Invited Essay: ‘Transatlantic Influence’, Negotiations: A Journal of Literary and Cultural Studies (April 2011), in press.
‘Reading England: pastoral, elegy and the politics of place in Ric Caddel and Harriet Tarlo’ Textual Practice, 24-6 (Winter 2010), in press (available on-line from August 2010)
‘Open Ground: American Mythologies and Jorie Graham’s “Pollock and Canvas”’, Word and Image, 22-2 (April-June 2006), pp. 128-45. ISSN 0266-6286
‘“Created space”: mapping America as poem in Gary Snyder’s Mountains and Rivers Without End and Susan Howe’s Secret History of the Dividing Line’, Journal of American Studies, 39-1 (Spring 2005), pp. 41-64. ISSN: 0021-8758
‘Desiring Texts: the erotics of domestic space in the poetry of Lyn Hejinian and Rosmarie Waldrop’, European Journal of American Culture, 23-1 (Spring 2004), pp. 21-29. ISSN: 1466-0407
RECENT LECTURES GIVEN:
March, 2011: ‘American Ecopoetry’, an invited lecture at the David Bruce Centre for American Studies, Keele University
November, 2010: ‘Gifts Outright: Land, Poem and American Ecopoetry’, Keynote lecture at the ‘American Geographies’ Conference (The 2010 British Association for American Studies Postgraduate Conference), held at the Rothermere Institute for American Studies, University of Oxford
March 2010: ‘Transatlantic Influence’, Keynote lecture at the ‘The idea of influence in American literature’ conference, at the Oxford English Faculty, Oxford University.
January 2010: ‘Ecopoetry in America’, an invited lecture to the School of English Research Seminar, University of Kent.
December 2009: ‘“Found full of nomads”: Pound as American Critic in Patria Mia and Cathay’, Keynote lecture at the Ezra Pound and Modern Criticism symposium, University of Westminster, London.
October 2009: Invited seminar leader at the Cantos reading group of the London Modernism Seminar, Senate House, London University.
September 2008: ‘In search of Moby-Dick’, an invited lecture at the In the Heart of the Sea: Leviathan event organised by the BBC and the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London.
March 2008: ‘Ezra Pound and the Geographies of American Modernism: Cathay and The Cantos’, an invited lecture to the London Modernism Seminar, Senate House, London University.
September 2007: ‘American Poetry in 1968: “Sick / of ghost-written … rhetoric”’, an invited lecture at the Europe and the United States in 1968: The Year of Living Dangerously conference of the European American Studies Network, University of East Anglia.
May 2007: ‘Being “in the picture”: remembering and the lyric body in Frank O’Hara’s In Memory of my Feelings’, Keynote lecture to the ‘Authenticity and the Lyric Voice’ colloquium at the Poetry Centre, Oxford Brookes University.
