Careers for Majors Courses of Study Creative Writing Databases Faculty Mission and Objectives Position: Fiction Writer Resources on-line Shannon-Clark Lectures Shenandoah Study Abroad What's Up with English? Writing Center English Department Home		Lesley Wheeler, Professor and Chair Department of English  Washington and Lee University  Lexington, VA 24450  Payne Hall 23 (540) 458-8758 email: wheelerlm@wlu.edu Education B. A., Rutgers University  Ph.D., Princeton University Research and Writing Interests Twentieth-century and twenty-first-century poetry: sound, voice, performance, gender Teaching English 105—Composition and Literature  English 204—Introduction to Creative Writing: Poetry English 230—Poetry English 353—20th-Century British Poetry  English 363—American Poetry from 1900-1950 English 364—American Poetry from 1950-Present Seminar and Capstone Topics Poetry and Community Poetry and Performance Emily Dickinson African-American Poetry and Poetics H. D. and T. S. Eliot  Feminist Literary Theory Lyric and Voice Major American Women Poets American Gothic
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		Selected Publications Books Voicing American Poetry. Cornell UP, 2008. http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/cup_detail.taf?ti_id=4828 Letters to the World: Poems from Members of the Women's Poetry Listserv. Co-editor with Moira Richards and Rosemary Starace. Red Hen P, 2008. http://www.redhen.org/bookDetail.asp?bookID=237 Scholarship Girl. Poetry chapbook. Finishing Line P, 2007. http://www.finishinglinepress.com/2006newreleasesandforthcomingtitles.htm The Poetics of Enclosure: American Women Poets from Dickinson to Dove. U of Tennessee P, 2002. Selected Essays, Interviews, and Reviews Essay. “Materializing Millay: The 1930s Radio Broadcasts.” In Broadcasting Modernism, ed. Michael Coyle, Debra Rae Cohen, Jane Alison Lewty (University of Florida Press, forthcoming). Essay. “Voice and the Visual Poetry of Langston Hughes.” Fieldnotes: A Publication of the Masters in Teaching Program at Bard College, Fall 2007 (3.3.5-11). Interview. Your Body, Your Breath: An Interview with Janet McAdams. Shenandoah 56.3.141-156 (Winter 2006). Essay. "Against Usefulness," in "A Muse of Fire: Poetry in Crisis," Editor's Forum, Studies in American Culture 28.2.20-31 (2005). Essay.  "Impostors and Chameleons: Marianne Moore and the Carlisle Indian School." Written with Christopher Gavaler. Paideuma: A Special Issue on H. D. and Marianne Moore, 33.2-3.53-82 (Fall 2004). Essay. "Both Flower and Flower-Gatherer: Medbh McGuckian's The Flower Master and H.D.'s Sea Garden." Twentieth-Century Literature 49.4. 494-519 (Winter 2003). Review.  "Safe Mischief: The Zones of Paradise by Lynn Powell" (poetry).  American Book Review 25.5.1-3 (2004). Review of Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood (novel). Shenandoah 53.4 (2003). Review of Verner D. Mitchell's (ed.) This Waiting for Love: Helene Johnson, Poet of the Harlem Renaissance , African American Review 36.2 (2002): 340-2. Review of Ruth Ellen Kocher's Desdemona's Fire. African American Review 35.2 (2001): 342-3. Essay. "'Heralding the Clear Obscure':  Gwendolyn Brooks and Apostrophe." Callaloo 24.1 (2001). Review of Medbh McGuckian's Shelmalier and The Wake Forest Book of Contemporary Irish Women Poets. Shenandoah 51.1 (2001). Essay. "What Death Will Buy: Escaping Gender in Emily Dickinson." Nature, Woman, and the Artifice of Politics. Ed. Eduardo Velasquez. Roman and Littlefield, 2000. Essay. "Medbh McGuckian's The Flower Master as a Critique of Female Modernism." HOW2 1.3 (2000). Review Essay. "Attitudes of Mothering: Review of Rita Dove's Mother Love." Critical Matrix 10:1-2 (1996). Essay. "Rita Dove." Scribner's American Writers Series, Supplement IV (December 1996). Poems Poetry, Witness, The Journal, The National Poetry Review, Blackbird, Admit Two, Diner, Tupelo Press Poetry Project, Valparaiso Poetry Review, Pearl, The Journal, American Poetry Review, Poemeleon, Poetry Southeast, Prairie Schooner, Agni, Southeast Review, Puerto del Sol, Crab Orchard Review, MARGIE, Barrow Street, storySouth, Spoon River Poetry Review, The Chiron Review, PMS, Phoebe, Sou'wester, Elixir, Nimrod, The Louisville Review, American Writing, Critical Matrix, Northeast Journal, American Standard, SPSM&H, and Interim. Work in Progress Heathen (poetry). Remembering My Mother's Childhood (poetry). Return to Faculty listing.
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