Friday 13 April (3222 Angell Hall)
2:30-4:00
Panel 2, “Editorial Theory and Practice”
Robin G. Schulze
— Penn State University
“Degeneracy and Manliness: Ezra Pound’s Revisions of ‘Contemporania’”
Books:
Becoming Marianne Moore, The Early Poems, 1907-1924 (U. of California Press, 2002); Critics and Poets on Marianne Moore: “A Right Good Salvo of Barks” (Bucknell, 2005), ed. with Linda Leavell and Cristanne Miller
Bio:
Robin Schulze is Professor of English at Penn State University, and the Director of Penn State’s newly established Center for American Literary Studies. She is the author of The Web of Friendship: Marianne Moore and Wallace Stevens (University of Michigan, 1995), a rich archivally based account of the mutual influence between two of America’s most important modernist poets, and the editor of Becoming Marianne Moore: The Early Poems, 1907-1924 (University of California Press, 2002). Her experimental edition of Moore’s verse is the first to offer scholars access to Moore’s poems in their multiple versions and to situate them in the material contexts that shaped their production. The book has been described as “a powerful intervention into Moore studies, a profound contribution to the notions of material textuality, and the first edition of a modernist writer to incorporate the revolutionary developments in recent editorial theory.” She is also co-editor, with Linda Leavell and Cristanne Miller, of Critics and Poets on Marianne Moore: “A Right Good Salvo of Barks” (Bucknell, 2005) and 1914-1945 Period Editor of the Pearson Custom Library of American Literature, the first “print on demand” anthology of American Literature to market. Schulze has received grants for her research from the National Humanities Center, the American Philosophical Society, and the Oregon State University Center for the Humanities, where she was a fellow during the 2005-2006 academic year. She has written numerous articles about modernist poetry and poetics, textual studies and editorial theory, and nature and literature. She is currently completing a book about the intersections between changing American attitudes towards nature in the early twentieth century and the creation of modernist American verse. Schulze is the Executive Director of the Society for Textual Scholarship [www.textual.org] and is co-director, with Professor Cristanne Miller, of a new project that will result in a digital archive of Marianne Moore’s unpublished materials.