Published: Oct 16th, 2015
Today is Oscar Wilde’s birthday, and my American tribute marks the occasion by revisiting the high style Wilde brought to the frontiers of the television Western and men’s fashion magazines in… Read More
Published: Sep 1st, 2015
It’s complicated. It’s twisted. In a relationship, but ready to drop it the minute you text me. Engaged to the latest article on spatial relations. No facebook status or emoticon… Read More
Published: May 31st, 2015
I’ve just returned from the inaugural Poetry by the Sea conference–a gathering of contemporary poets as diverse as Rafael Campo, Annie Finch, Marilyn Hacker, Spencer Reece, Patricia Smith, and A. E.… Read More
Published: Apr 4th, 2015
With the passing of Women’s History Month, I find myself reconsidering the recent passing of Madelyn Lockhart–or Dr. Lockhart, as we knew her here at UF. Academic women of my… Read More
Published: Feb 13th, 2015
I teach Modern British Poetry in the Spring, and so W. H. Auden’s early love poems always fall during Valentine’s week. And every year I return to the full humanity of… Read More
Published: Dec 6th, 2014
Here’s my lead-in to a piece on Plath parodies for Plath Profiles #7. It’s a collaboration with students from my 2013 course on ‘Plath and Her Cultural Afterlife at 50’ (timed to… Read More
Published: Dec 4th, 2014
I’m just back from the second academic conference I’ve attended in the last four weeks. It was my first venture into a STEM conference, the Materials Research Society (MRS) Fall… Read More
Published: Nov 22nd, 2014
If you’re a teacher in these times, you hear early and often that STEM is what education is now all about. It’s STEM to the brim–more science, technology, engineering & math–and… Read More
Published: Oct 14th, 2014
Here’s a preview of my new “Epic Encounters” essay on teaching the modernist long poem for Journal of Modern Literature (37.4). This Gladiator-inspired movie poster of Paterson, by Cory Hunter, is reproduced by… Read More
Published: Oct 2nd, 2014
It’s that time of year again when chillier morns and earlier sunsets hearken us back to pubs, pints, and poetry. No Oktoberfest Library is complete without a requisite pull of modern and… Read More