BROWN UNIVERSITY - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Adele Kellenberg Seaver Professor Emeritus of Literary Arts & Comparative Literature
Job Titles:
- Adele Seaver Kellenberg Professor
Biography
Aishah Rahman, Professor Emerita of Literary Arts, died on December 29, 2014. She was born in Harlem on November 4, 1936 and was living in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, at the time of her death. An accomplished playwright and author, Aishah Rahman was a Professor of Literary Arts; she taught at Brown from 1992-2011. A graduate of Howard University and Goddard College, Rahman, along with Amiri Baraka, Larry Neal, Sonia Sanchez and others was active in the 1960's Black Arts Movement. She described her writing as adhering to a "jazz aesthetic," and was the author of numerous plays, including the dramas "Unfinished Women Cry In No Man's Land While a Bird Dies in Gilded Cage," "The Mojo And The Sayso," "Only in America," "Chiaroscuro" and three plays with music, "Lady Day A Musical Tragedy," "The Tale of Madame Zora" and "Has Anybody Seen Marie Laveau?" Her plays were produced at the Public Theatre, Ensemble Theatre, BAM and theaters and universities across the United States. She served as director of playwriting at the New Federal Theater in New York. Among her numerous fellowships, grants and awards are a special citation from the Rockefeller Foundation of the Arts for dedication to playwriting in the American Theater. Her plays are distributed by Broadway Play Publishing. Chewed Water: A Memoir, the story of growing up in Harlem in the 1940's and 50's, was published in 2001 by University of New England Press.
Job Titles:
- Brooke Russell Astor Professor Emeritus
Job Titles:
- Kapstein Professor of Literary Arts, Was Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry in March 2011 for One With Others
C.D. Wright was born and raised in the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas. She has published over a dozen books, including Rising, Falling, Hovering, Like Something Flying Backwards: New and Selected Poems, and a text edition of One Big Self: An Investigation, focused on Louisiana inmates. With photographer Deborah Luster, Wright won the Dorothea Lange-Paul Taylor Prize for One Big Self from the Center for documentary Studies at Duke University. She had published several book-length poems including Deepstep Come Shining and Just Whistle. Wright had composed and published two state literary maps, one for Arkansas, her native state, and one for Rhode Island, her adopted state. Wright was former State Poet of Rhode Island and with poet Forrest Gander she edited Lost Roads Publishers for over twenty years.
Honors include awards from the Wallace Foundation and the Foundation for Contemporary Arts as well as the Lannan Literary Award. In 2004 Wright was named a MacArthur Fellow; in 2005 she was given the Robert Creeley Award, and elected to membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2009, Rising, Falling, Hovering won the International Griffin Poetry Prize.
In the fall of 2015 Wright released a companion volume to Cooling Time: an American Poetry Vigil entitled The Poet, the Lion, Talking Pictures, El Farolito, A Wedding in St. Roch, The Big Box Store, The Warp in the Mirror, Spring, Midnights, Fire & All. Also in 2015, a selected book of poems of was released in Slovenia, Skritost (Obscurity) where she was guest of honor at the Slovenia Poetry and Wine festival. And ShallCross, a new collection of poems is slated for a 2016 publication.
C.D. Wright, Israel J. Kapstein Professor of Literary Arts, was winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry in March 2011 for One With Others: [a little book of her days], which was also a finalist for the National Book Award and was selected as winner of the Lenore Marshall Prize from the Academy of American Poets.
Carole Maso is the author of ten books. Her novels are Ghost Dance, The Art Lover, AVA, The American Woman in the Chinese Hat, Defiance and Mother & Child. Forthcoming are the novels Eternity and the Dreamer, and What Does She See When She Closes Her Eyes?, and she continues to work on her twenty-year opus, The Bay of Angels.
She is also the author of two sequences of poems in prose: Aureole, and Beauty is Convulsive, as well as of a book of essays, Break Every Rule, and a memoir, The Room Lit by Roses.
She is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships including, most recently, the 2018 Berlin Prize.
Her final semester of teaching was Spring 2022.
Listen to Carole read
Job Titles:
- Bonderman Assistant Professor of the Practice in
Carolina Ebeid is a multimedia poet and author of You Ask Me to Talk about the Interior and the chapbook Dauerwunder: a brief record of facts. Her work has been supported by the Stadler Center for Poetry at Bucknell University, Bread Loaf, CantoMundo, a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, as well as a residency fellowship from the Lannan Foundation. A longtime editor, she helps edit poetry at The Rumpus, as well as the online zine Visible Binary.
Cole Swensen is the author of seventeen volumes of poetry, most recently Landscapes on a Train (Nightboat Books, 2017) and Gravesend (U. of California Press, 2012), and a volume of essays, ;Noise That Stays Noise (U. of Michigan Press, 2011). She is the co-editor of the 2009 Norton anthology American Hybrid, the founding editor of La Presse Books, which specializes in contemporary experimental French writing translated by English-language poets. She is also a translator of contemporary French poetry, prose, and art criticism. Her awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship, a PEN USA Award for Literary Translation, the Iowa Poetry Prize, and the San Francisco State Poetry Center Book Award, among others. A finalist twice for the Los Angeles Times Book Award and once for the National Book Award, she's been writer-in-residence at Yale's Beinecke Library, the Pratt Institute, Temple University, and various other places, and taught at the University of Denver and the Iowa Writers' Workshop before coming to Brown, where she taught until retiring at the end of the 2023 calendar year.
Job Titles:
- Associate Professor
- Director of Graduate Studies
- Writer
Colin Channer's ten books as fiction writer, poet and editor include the verse collection Console (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023), a Finalist for the New England Book Award. His prose and poetry have appeared in The Atlantic, Bomb, The New Yorker, The Poetry Review (UK), Conjunctions, Agni, Prairie Schooner, Virginia Quarterly and other venues. Recent honors include a 2023 Barnes & Noble Writers for Writers Award from Poets & Writers; a 2022-2023 Cullman Fellowship from the New York Public Library; a 2019 Amy Clampitt Residency; and a 2018 Henry Merritt Wriston Fellowship from Brown. Channer's verse collection Providential was a Finalist for the 2016 OCM/Bocas Prize in poetry. His anthology Kingston Noir was a Spectator Magazine (UK) Best Book of 2012. His novel Waiting in Vain was a 1998 Critic's Choice Selection of the Washington Post. As a monologist he has appeared at venues such as Joe's Pub at the Public Theater, The Dweck Center for Contemporary Culture at Brooklyn Public Library and The Bowery Poetry Club. He has also performed at Boston's Wilbur.
Biography
Edwin Honig was instrumental in establishing a writing program at Brown (now the Literary Arts department). A poet, playwright, critic and translator (perhaps most notably of Lorca, Pessoa and of Calderon), Honig mentored generations of students seeking to work in the field of letters. Knighted by the King of Spain and by the President of Portugal, Honig was author of over a dozen books of poetry (including Spring Journal and Interrupted Praise) and a similar number of works in translation. He was the founding editor of Copper Beech Press.
Job Titles:
- Academic Office and Tech Coordinator
Biography
She has a BFA in Illustration from Parsons School of Design and grew up in Massachusetts. She became a theater tech in Provincetown, MA, but first learned AV while working in the Media Services department at Brown in 2003. Erica writes poetry, plays guitar, and likes to draw.
Job Titles:
- Adele Kellenberg Seaver Professor Emeritus of Literary Arts & Comparative Literature
- Writer
Forrest Gander is a writer and translator with degrees in geology and English literature. Concerned largely with the way the self is revised and translated in encounters with the foreign, his book Core Samples from the World was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. He is the author of many other books of poetry, including Redstart: An Ecological Poetics and Science and Steepleflower, as well as of novels The Trace and As a Friend, and of an essay collection, A Faithful Existence. His translations include Alice Iris Red Horse: Poems of Gozo Yoshimasu, Then Come Back: the Lost Neruda Poems, and Fungus Skull Eye Wing: Selected Poems of Alfonso D'Aquino. Gander has received awards from the Library of Congress, the Guggenheim, Whiting, NEA and Howard Foundations.
He retired from teaching at the end of the 2017-2018 Academic Year.
Job Titles:
- Assistant Professor of the Practice in
- Writer to the New York Times
Francesca Mari is a contributing writer to The New York Times Magazine focused on housing and equity. Her cover stories for The New York Times Magazine explain the pandemic real estate boom (in print and on The Daily); the rise of private equity landlords; and how the U.S. housing market became so dysfunctional and why it didn't-and doesn't-have to be this way. In addition, she has written features on housing, con men, and other abuses of power for The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Texas Monthly, The New York Review of Books, The Cut, and others.
Her Atlantic feature about the identity theft of 40,000 Vietnamese fishermen was optioned for film and her essay "The Assistant Economy" was anthologized in the Best Business Writing 2015. "The Talented Mr. Khater," a true crime story about an international conman who buried a woman alive, was named one of the 10 best stories of the year by Longform in 2015, highlighted on NPR, and won the City and Regional Magazine Award for feature writing. She has toured with Pop-Up Magazine to sold-out audiences at BAM, The Ace Theater in LA, and The Paramount. She is a grateful recipient of fellowships from the Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Study (2022-2023), the New America Foundation (2021-2022), MacDowell (2019 and 2023) and Yaddo (2021). She was previously an editor and writer at Texas Monthly and a senior editor at California Sunday in her hometown of San Francisco.
Job Titles:
- Academic Program Director, Senior Lecturer
Gale Nelson is author of This is What Happens When Talk Ends, Ceteris Paribus and Stare Decisis, and has work included in the anthology, 49+1: Nouveaux Poëtes Amèricains.
Biography
George Houston Bass was a faculty member of playwriting and Afro-American studies (Now Africana Studies). Before coming to Brown, he had served as Langston Hughes' secretary and literary assistant; he later founded the Langston Hughes Society and edited the Langston Hughes Review. He joined the Brown faculty in 1970 and shortly thereafter founded and served as artistic director of Rites and Reason, the research to performance-based theater of the Africana Studies Department. He wrote, mentored and directed many performance works for the Brown community, culminating in the presentation of his imaginative and provocative play, Malacoff Blue, which was performed at Rites & Reason in the late 1980s. He died in September, 1990.
Job Titles:
- Assistant Professor
- Author of Trigger Warning
Jacinda Townsend is the author of Trigger Warning (Graywolf, 2026) and Mother Country (Graywolf, 2022), winner of the 2023 Ernest Gaines Award for Literary Excellence. Townsend's first novel, Saint Monkey (Norton, 2014), winner of the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize and the James Fenimore Cooper Prize for historical fiction, was an Honor Book of the Black Caucus of the American Library Association. A former broadcast journalist and antitrust lawyer, Townsend has written nonfiction for Al Jazeera and The White Review.
James Schevill was an invaluable member of the first cohort of faculty who led Brown's writing program (now the Literary Arts Department), teaching both poetry and playwriting. Author of about a dozen books of poetry and over thirty plays (including Lovecraft's Follies and Cathedral of Ice), he was also a man of conscience, refusing to sign a loyalty oath (at the time required of those teaching in public institutions of learning in California), passing up the chance to teach at UC Berkeley and instead joining the faculty at California College of Arts and Crafts. Along with Edwin Honig and Keith Waldrop, James Schevill was a founding member of Wastepaper Theater, a multi-decade venue for producing literary performance works in Rhode Island.
Job Titles:
- Academic Department Manager
Biography
She joined the Literary Arts Department in 2017, but has been a member of the Brown community since 2007. She has a bachelor's degree in English from the University of Rhode Island.
John Cayley has practiced as a poet, translator, publisher, and book dealer, and all these activities have been influenced by his training in Chinese language and culture. Details of his internationally recognized writing in networked and programmable media may be found on his personal website.
Cayley published Ink Bamboo, a book of poems, translations and adaptations with Agenda Editions, London, in 1996 but afterwards worked chiefly in digital media, winning, in 2001, the Electronic Literature Organization's inaugural Award for Poetry. In 2015 Cayley published a book bringing together original 'supply' texts and works composed from generated poetic language, Image Generation (London, Veer).
Before coming to Brown in 2007, Cayley taught at a number of universities in the United Kingdom, and was an Honorary Research Associate in the Department of English, Royal Holloway College, University of London. In the United States, he has taught or directed research at the University of California San Diego and as a visitor to Brown in 2003 and 2005. Recent work has investigated ambient poetics in programmable media and writing for immersive stereo 3D audiovisual environments (the 'Cave' and now also the 'YURT'). A major ongoing collaboration with Daniel C. Howe (http://thereadersproject.org) explores aestheticized vectors of reading and 'writing to be found' within and against the services of Big Data and Big Software. In future work he aims to compose for a readership that is as much aural as visual. Cayley is also well known as a theorist in the field of digital literary practice and links to his critical writing can be followed from his website.
Job Titles:
- Professor Emeritus of Africana Studies and
John Edgar Wideman is the distinguished author of nearly 20 books of fiction and nonfiction, including the novels Two Cities, The Cattle Killing, Fever and Philadelphia Fire. His articles, short stories, book reviews, and poetry have appeared widely in periodicals. Previously Distinguished Professor and Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Wideman has received many awards and honors, including an O. Henry Award, a Reader's Digest/Lila Wallace Grant, a MacArthur Fellowship, the Rea Prize for Short Fiction, and the Lannan Literary Fellowship for Fiction.
Mr. Wideman was appointed the Asa Messer Professor and Professor of Africana Studies and Literary Arts in 2004. He retired from teaching in 2014.
John Hawkes was an experimental novelist who has been compared to innovative fiction writers including John Barth, William Gass, and William Gaddis. He was quoted in the journal Wisconsin Studies in Contemporary Literature in 1965 as saying "I began to write fiction on the assumption that the true enemies of the novel were plot, character, setting and theme, and having once abandoned these familiar ways of thinking about fiction, totality of fiction or structure was really all that remained. And structure - verbal and psychological coherence - is still my largest concern as a writer." Hawkes' groundbreaking novels and short story collections include The Cannibal, The Beetle Leg, The Lime Twig, The Blood Oranges, Death, Sleep and the Traveler, Travesty, Second Skin, Adventures in the Alaskan Skin Trade, An Irish Eye, and Sweet William: A Memoir of an Old Horse. He was the recipient of many honors and awards, including a Lannan Foundation award, Ford Foundation and Guggenheim fellowships, and grants from the National Institute of Arts and Letters and the Rockefeller Foundation. A native of Stamford, Connecticut, Hawkes grew up partly in Alaska, graduated from Harvard College in 1949, taught English at Harvard from 1955 to 1958 and at Brown from 1958 until his retirement in 1988. Along with Edward Honig, he was one of the founders of the Graduate Program in Creative Writing (now Literary Arts) at Brown.
Job Titles:
- Associate Professor
- Author of Family Planning
Karan Mahajan is the author of Family Planning, a finalist for the International Dylan Thomas Prize, and The Association of Small Bombs, which was shortlisted for the 2016 National Book Awards, won the 2017 New York Public Library Young Lions Award, and was named one of the New York Times Book Review's "Ten Best Books of 2016." In 2017, he was selected as one of Granta's "Best of Young American Novelists." His essays and criticism have appeared in the New York Times, The New Yorker Online, n+1, The New Republic, and other venues.
Job Titles:
- Brooke Russell Astor Professor Emeritus
Keith Waldrop, recipient of the National Book Award in Poetry in 2009 for his trilogy, Transcendental Studies, died on Thursday, 27 July 2023. Keith had retired from Brown University as Brooke Russell Astor Professor of Literary Arts and Comparative Literature in 2011, where he had taught for just over 40 years.
While foremost a poet, Waldrop was also a distinguished translator, earning the rank of Chevalier of Arts and Letters from the French government. His translations ranged the gamut of French poetry - with highly-regarded translations of canonical writers Charles Baudelaire and Paul Verlaine, but also delivering to an English-speaking audience luminous renderings of his French contemporaries Anne-Marie Albiach, Jean Grosjean, Jacques Roubaud and Claude Royet-Journoud. He also published two books of prose, Hegel's Family (a collection of short pieces) and Light While There is Light, a memoir in novel form, depicting an altogether eccentric American childhood, an Odyssey in its own right, told in deadpan manner with precise timing - a memory piece haunted by ghosts and filled with readerly pleasures.
Bernard Keith Waldrop was born on 11 December 1932 in Emporia, Kansas. His father, Arthur Waldrop, worked for the Santa Fe Railroad; his mother, Opal Mohler, taught piano and reared Keith, along with his three half-siblings. Deeply religious, Opal was always in search of the "right congregation" - moving the family (without Arthur, whom she leaves early in Keith's life) to various fundamentalist communities, where Keith was steeped in the music and literature of each denomination.
While Keith's early education was complicated by the quality of instruction, he was a serious and wide-ranging reader; he went on to start his education at Kansas State Teacher's College; before he could graduate, he was drafted into the Army and was stationed in West Germany, where he met his wife, Rosmarie Waldrop. Upon leaving the Army, he completed his undergraduate studies and then went on to the University of Michigan from which he earned a PhD in Comparative Literature in 1964.
While at Michigan, with co-editors James Camp and D.C. Hope, Keith founded Burning Deck, a literary journal wherein the hope was to create a space that might bridge the gap between the various poetic camps. After four issues, the journal transformed into a book press, and Camp and Hope moved on while Rosmarie Waldrop joined as co-editor. In its early days, the press primarily published chapbooks (saddle-stitched books of no more than 40 pages). These books were handset and printed on a letterpress. The means of production were based on economics - but the results showed an attention to detail in design as well as in editorial focus. The press ran from 1961 to 2017 and published over 200 titles, with the majority of books from 1990 forward being book-length, perfect-bound offset editions, but often including letter press flourishes on the covers or title pages.
Laird Hunt is the author of seven novels, a collection of stories and two book-length translations from the French. Kind One was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction and won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Fiction, and Neverhome won the Grand Prix de Littérature Américaine and The Bridge Prize and was shortlisted for the Prix Femina Étranger. His most recent novel, The Evening Road, was a Financial Times of London Best Book of 2017 and In the House in the Dark of the Woods will be out around Halloween. His reviews and essays have been published in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, the Daily Beast, the Guardian, the Irish Times and the Los Angeles Times, and his fiction and translations have appeared in many literary journals in the United States and abroad. A former United Nations press officer, he has lived in Singapore, London, Paris, New York, Tokyo and Boulder.
Job Titles:
- Assistant Professor of the Practice in
Laura Colella has written and directed three feature films: Tax Day, Stay Until Tomorrow, and most recently, Breakfast with Curtis, winner of a 2013 Independent Spirit Award. Her numerous shorts include Chryskylodon Blues, filmed behind-the-scenes on the set of Paul Thomas Anderson's feature Inherent Vice, and experimental narratives Statuary and The Flying Electric. Her films have screened at well over 100 festivals internationally, winning over 25 awards. Her three features have been released on Netflix, Fandor and other online platforms. Tax Day and Stay Until Tomorrow were released on DVD by Passion River Films, and Breakfast with Curtis was released theatrically by Abramorama and Bond 360. She is represented by United Talent Agency.
Laura began making 16MM films as an undergraduate at Harvard, where she studied with filmmakers Raul Ruiz and Miklos Jansco, who sparked her interests in unconventional narrative and visual storytelling. She has been a Sundance Directing and Screenwriting Fellow, a Film Independent Fellow, a Bogliasco Fellow, and one of Filmmaker Magazine's 25 New Faces in Independent Film. She taught 16MM film production and directing at the Rhode Island School of Design from 1997-2014, and served as Founding Faculty Chair for the MFA in Film program at Vermont College of Fine Arts. She wrote plays while earning an MFA in Writing for Performance at Brown, and has been a longtime collaborator on touring multimedia productions with the Everett Company.
Job Titles:
- Bonderman Assistant Professor of the Practice in
Lucy Ives is a novelist, poet, and critic. Her most recent work of fiction, Life Is Everywhere (Graywolf), was a best book of 2022 with The New Yorker and The Seattle Times. She writes frequently on visual art and has published essays and other short pieces in such magazines as Artforum, Harper's, and Vogue. She has also worked as an editor in print and digital contexts. In collaboration with Siglio Press, Ives edited The Saddest Thing Is That I Have Had to Use Words: A Madeline Gins Reader, the first definitive collection of writings by poet-architect-philosopher Gins. In 2024, Graywolf will publish An Image of My Name Enters America, a book of essays.
Job Titles:
- Professor and Chair
- Writer, Professor
Matthew Shenoda is a writer, professor, and author and editor of several books. His poems and essays have appeared in a variety of newspapers, journals, radio programs and anthologies. His debut collection of poems, Somewhere Else (Coffee House Press), was named one of 2005's debut books of the year by Poets & Writers Magazine and was winner of a 2006 American Book Award. He is also the author of Seasons of Lotus, Seasons of Bone (BOA Editions Ltd.), editor of Duppy Conqueror: New & Selected Poems by Kwame Dawes, and most recently author of Tahrir Suite: Poems (Northwestern University Press), winner of the 2015 Arab American Book Award and with Kwame Dawes editor of Bearden's Odyssey: Poets Respond to the Art of Romare Bearden (Northwestern University Press, 2017). His latest book is The Way of the Earth (Northwestern University Press, 2022).
Shenoda began his teaching career in the College of Ethnic Studies at San Francisco State University where he taught for nearly a decade and has since held several faculty and administrative positions at various institutions. Currently he is Professor and Chair of the Department of Literary Arts at Brown University. Additionally, Shenoda is a founding editor of the African Poetry Book Fund.
Meredith Steinbach is the author of The Enigma of Rain & Other Stories; To Be Sung on the Water; Village with Blue Doors; The Charmed Life of Flowers: Field Notes from Provence (Winner of the International General Fiction Category at the 2013 Paris Book Festival); Beata Rustica: The Tale of the Would-Be Saint; Zara; Here Lies The Water; The Birth of the World as We Know It; or, Teiresias; In the Realm of Which There is No Sign; and Reliable Light. Further prizes and honors have included the Pushcart Prize for the Short Story; the National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship; the Bunting Fellowship of Radcliffe College at Harvard University; O. Henry Award for the Short Story; 100 Distinguished Stories, Best American Short Stories; the Thomas J. Watson Institute Travel Grant for research in France and Greece; among others.
She retired from teaching at the end of the 2017-2018 Academic Year.
Job Titles:
- University Professor Emeritus
Biography
Poet Michael S. Harper's titles included I Do Believe in People: Remembrances of Walter Warren Harper (1915-2004); Dear John, Dear Coltrane; Debridement; Healing Song for the Inner Ear; History is Your Own Heartbeat; Honorable Amendments; Images of Kin; Nightmare Begins Responsibility and Songlines in Michaeltree: New and Collected Poems. He edited Chant of Saints with Robert B. Stepto and with Anthony Walton, Every Shut Eye Ain't Asleep and The Vintage Book of African American Poetry. Harper, the first State Poet of Rhode Island, was a university professor, a New York Library Literary Lion, a Phi Beta Kappa scholar and an American Academy of Arts and Sciences fellow. He was the recipient of many distinctions, including the Robert Hayden Poetry Award from the United Negro College Fund, the Melville-Cane Award and the Black Academy of Arts and Letters Award. Michael Harper taught at Brown from 1970 to 2013; he died in May 2016.
R. V. Cassill was professor of fiction writing at Brown University from 1966 to 1983. He was noted for his writing and for his editing; he served as a primary editor of the Norton anthologies of Short Fiction and Contemporary Fiction. He was also a founding member of the Associated Writing Programs. His works of fiction include Dr. Cobb's Game and Eagle on the Coin. He had retired from Brown nearly twenty years before his death in 2002.
Biography
Rosmarie Waldrop is a poet and translator, born in Germany, in 1935. At age 10 she spent half a year acting with a traveling theater, but was happy when schools reopened and she could settle for the quieter pleasures of reading and writing. These she has pursued in universities (Ph.D. University of Michigan), but mostly in Providence, RI where she lives with Keith Waldrop, with whom she co-edited Burning Deck Press.
Job Titles:
- Assistant Professor
- Artist
Sawako Nakayasu is an artist working with language, performance, and translation - separately and in various combinations. She has lived mostly in the US and Japan, briefly in France and China, and translates from Japanese. Her books include The Ants, Mouth: Eats Color - Sagawa Chika Translations, Anti-translations, & Originals (a multilingual work of both original and translated poetry), and Costume en Face (a translation of a handwritten notebook of Tatsumi Hijikata's dance notations). She is co-editor, with Lisa Samuels, of A Transpacific Poetics, a gathering of poetry and poetics engaging transpacific imaginaries.
Robert Coover's most recent books are The Adventures of Lucky Pierre: Directors' Cut, Stepmother, and A Child Again. He is the recipient of the William Faulkner, Brandeis University, American Academy of Arts and Letters, National Endowment of the Arts, Rea Lifetime Short Story, Rhode Island Governor's Arts, Pell, and Clifton Fadiman Awards, as well as Rockefeller, Guggenheim, Lannan Foundation, and DAAD fellowships. Among other courses, he teaches experimental narrative and literary hypermedia workshops, including "Cave Writing," a spatial hypertext writing workshop in immersive virtual reality.
Job Titles:
- Adele Seaver Kellenberg Professor