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Bob Perelman

Professor of English Emeritus

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Perelman

Bob Perelman has published over 15 volumes of poetry, most recently The Future of Memory (Roof Books) and Ten to One: Selected Poems (Wesleyan University Press). His critical work focuses on poetry and modernism. His critical books are The Marginalization of Poetry: Language Writing and Literary History (Princeton University Press) and The Trouble with Genius: Reading Pound, Joyce, Stein, and Zukofsky (University of California Press). He has edited Writing/Talks (Southern Illinois University Press), a collection of talks by poets.

Publications

Doctoral Dissertations Chaired

2015

Amy Paeth "State Verse Culture: American Poets Laureate, 1945-2015"

2013

Jonathan Fedors "Modern American Poetry and the Protestant Establishment"

2012

Aliki Caloyeras "H.D.: The Politics and Poetics of the Maternal Body"

2011

Julia Bloch

2006

Kathy Lou Schultz "'In the Modern Vein': Afro-Modernist Poetry and Literary History"

2005

Louis Cabri "Social Address and the Modernist Word in Louis Zukofsky, Bruce Andrews, P. Inman"

2004

Matthew Hart "Synthetic Vernacular Poetry and Transatlantic Modernism, 1922-2002"

2000

Lana Emad Younes "Facing the Other: A Comparative Study of Modernism in the Poetry of William Carlos Williams and the Cafeacute; Riche Circle"

Courses Taught

spring 2015

ENGL 113.301 Poetry Workshop  
ENGL 773.301 Close Reading/Distant Reading  

fall 2014

ENGL 040.301 From GOD to NATURE  

spring 2014

ENGL 259.401 Topics in Modernism: Poetry and the New Woman  

fall 2013

ENGL 040.301 British Poetry 1660-1914  
ENGL 573.301 Poetics, Writing, Trending: Judgment and its Discontents  

spring 2012

ENGL 088.001 American Poetry  

fall 2011

ENGL 559.301 Whitman and Williams: Contact, Utopia  

spring 2011

ENGL 088.001 American Poetry  

fall 2010

ENGL 269.301 Poetry, Music, Sound  
ENGL 773.401 Late Modernist Long Poems: Their social and political grounds, their formal issues, their claims in poetics  

spring 2010

ENGL 795.401 Modernist Poetics and its Discontents  

fall 2009

ENGL 088.001 Modern American Poetry  
ENGL 259.301 Pound and Eliot  

spring 2009

ENGL 016.302 Contexts of Poetic Innovation: William Carlos Williams and Robert Creeley  
ENGL 269.301 Poetry, Music, Sound  

spring 2008

ENGL 088.001 American Poetry in the 20th-Century  
ENGL 589.401 Difficult Women: Stein, Loy, Riding, Moore, H.D.  

fall 2007

ENGL 016.305 American Poetry  

spring 2007

ENGL 088.001 American Poetry in the 20th-Century  
ENGL 388.301 Topics in American Poetry  

spring 2006

ENGL 088.001 American Poetry in the 20th-Century  
ENGL 795.401 Poetics  

spring 2005

ENGL 088.001 American Poetry in the 20th-Century  
ENGL 262.301 TOPICS IN 20TH CENTURY POETRY: Poetry Hoaxes  

fall 2004

ENGL 069.001 Poetry and Poetics: The Ecology of Poetry  
ENGL 795.401 History of Poetics  

spring 2004

ENGL 088.001 American Poetry in the 20th-Century  
ENGL 118.301 Advanced Poetry Writing  

fall 2003

ENGL 040.302 Major British Poets, 1660-Present  
ENGL 773.401 Modernism:  

spring 2002

ENGL 118.301 Advanced Poetry Writing  
ENGL 601.301 Proseminar  

spring 2001

ENGL 288.301 Topics in Modern American Poetry  
ENGL 591.401 Modernism, Distance, and Authenticity  

fall 2000

ENGL 210.401 Modernism  

spring 2000

ENGL 100.401 Intro to Literary Study  
ENGL 113.301 Poetry Writing Workshop  

fall 1999

ENGL 040.301 Major British Poets 1660-Present  
ENGL 790.301 Literary Forgeries  

spring 1999

ENGL 104.401 The Twentieth Century  
ENGL 270.301 Poetry and Poetics  

fall 1998

ENGL 084.001 Modern American Literature 1900-45  
ENGL 589.301 History of Poetics  

spring 1997

ENGL 118.301 Advanced Poetry Writing  
ENGL 284.401 American Modernism  

fall 1996

ENGL 085.401 Modern American Literature Post-1945  

fall 1995

ENGL 202.303 Romanticism to Modernism: Repressed Revolution to Liberated Aesthetics  
ENGL 288.401 American Poetry From The 50's On  

spring 1995

ENGL 113.301 Poetry Writing Workshop  
ENGL 591.301 William Carlos Williams in Context