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Profile: Gillian White

Title: Assistant Professor

Degree:
Ph.D., Princeton University 2006

Contact Info

Office:

4212 AH

Phone:

764-7306

Uniqname:

gcwhite

email:

gcwhite@umich.edu

Website:

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American: Twentieth-Century American; British: Twentieth-Century British; Modernism; Poetry and Poetics; Theory

Research Interests

Primary Interests

Modern and contemporary Anglo-American poetry; poetics; critical theory; lyric theory

Secondary Interests

20th century British poetry; psychology and literature; theories of the avant-garde

Publications

"Reality in America: Realism and Rhetoric in Wallace Stevens’s 'The Noble
Rider and the Sound of Words'"
The Wallace Stevens Journal, Fall 2011 (forthcoming)

"Words in Air & 'Space' in Art: Bishop's Mid-Century Critique of the United States"

(forthcoming, Elizabeth Bishop in the 21st Century, University of Virginia Press, Spring 2012)

"Readerly Contingency in Bishop's Journals and Early Prose"
Twentieth-Century Literature, Fall 2009

"The American Landscape in the Poetry of Frost, Bishop, and Ashbery, by Marit J. MacArthur"
(Review) The Elizabeth Bishop Bulletin, Vol 14 no. 2, Spring 2008

"Awful but Cheerful: The Tentativeness of Elizabeth Bishop"
London Review of Books, Vol. 28, No. 10, 25 May 2006

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