Notes on Contributors
- Notes on Contributors
nigel alderman is an assistant professor in the English Department at Yale University. He teaches British Romantic and Post-Romantic poetry and has published articles on T. S. Eliot, Larkin, Wordsworth, and Carlyle. He is completing a book, entitled Romantic Ambitions, that charts the emergence of a professional imagination in the first third of the nineteenth century.
peter barry is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. He edited New British Poetries: The Scope of the Possible (with Robert Hampson) in 1993, authored Beginning Theory: An Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory in 1995, and Inner Cities:Writing the City in Contemporary British Poetry in autumn 2000 (all from Manchester University Press/St. Martin’s Press). He is currently working on a book on postmodernism in contemporary British and American poetry (for Longman), and is poetry and reviews editor of English (the journal of the English Association).
c. d. blanton recently completed his Ph.D. work in English at Duke University. He writes on Victorian and modernist poetics and is currently finishing Untimely Histories: Fatal Poetics and the Modernist Past, a study of post-romantic literary historiographies and the emergence of the long poem.
kasia boddy teaches in the Department of English at the University of Dundee. She has published on a variety of Scottish and American topics, and is planning a book on the relationship between twentieth-century Scottish and American literatures.
clive bush is Professor of American Literature and Director of American Studies at King’s College, University of London. His published work includes The Dream of Reason: American Consciousness and Cultural Achievement from Independence to the Civil War (1977), Halfway to Revolution: Investigation and Crisis in the Work of Henry Adams, William James and Gertrude Stein (1991), and Out of Dissent: A Study of Five Contemporary British Poets (1997), which discusses the work of Thomas A. Clark, Allen Fisher, Bill Griffiths, Barry MacSweeney and Eric Mottram.
thomas dilworth is a professor of English at the University of Windsor and is a Killam Fellow. He is the author of The Shape of Meaning in the Poetry of David Jones, which won the British Council Prize in the Humanities, and is writing Jones’s biography for Jonathan Cape.
michael edwards is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Warwick. He is a poet, a translator, and the author of various books on [End Page 207] literature and art, including Towards a Christian Poetics, Poetry and Possibility, Of Making Many Books, Raymond Mason, and Eloge de l’attente: T. S. Eliot et Samuel Beckett. He will be European Chair at the Collège de France in 2000–2001.
burton hatlen is Professor of English at the University of Maine, where he also serves as Director of the National Poetry Foundation. He has published a book of his own poetry, I Wanted To Tell You; and he has published articles on Shakespeare, Renaissance poetry, modernist and postmodernist poetry, and literary theory in such journals as College English, English Literary Renaissance, Contemporary Literature, Twentieth Century Literature, American Poetry Review, and Paideuma.
romana huk is an associate professor of English and European Cultural Studies at the University of New Hampshire. She has edited two collections of essays on contemporary poetry: Contemporary British Poetry: Essays in Theory and Criticism, co-edited with James Acheson (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1996); and Assembling Alternatives: Essays on the Problems of Reading Postmodern Poetry Cross-Culturally (forthcoming from Wesleyan University Press). She is completing a book on Stevie Smith for Macmillan and is beginning a new book on postmodern theology and poetry. She has published numerous essays on contemporary British, Irish, post-colonial and American poetry and performance.
john kerrigan is a Fellow of St John’s College and Reader in English Literature at the University of Cambridge. He is the author of many essays, and of Revenge Tragedy: Aeschylus to Armageddon (Oxford, 1996). With the poet Peter Robinson he recently edited The Thing about Roy Fisher: Critical Studies (Liverpool, 2000). At present he is working on seventeenth-century literature and British state-formation and on a book provisionally entitled Dislocations: Contemporary British and Irish Poetry...
