Ann Keniston

Ann Keniston


BA (Hons) (Chicago), MA (NYU), PhD (Boston)
Assistant Professor

Specialization:
History and Theory of Poetry; Twentieth-century Poetry; Modern American Literature; Modernism (British and American); American Autobiography; Women's Literature; Psychoanalysis and Literature; World Literature; Feminist/Gender Theory; Lyric Theory; Creative Writing (Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction)

Select Publications:
Books:
Overheard Voices: Subjectivity and Address in Postmodern American Poetry. New York: Routledge Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory Series, 2006.

The Caution of Human Gestures: Poems. Cincinnati: David Robert Books, 2005.

Articles
The Holocaust Again: Sylvia Plath, Belatedness, and the Limits of Lyric Figure. In: The Unraveling Archive: Essays on Sylvia Plath. Ed. Anita Helle. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P. (forthcoming)

'To feel with a human stranger': Adrienne Rich's Postmodern Confession and the Limits of Identification. In: Modern Confessional Writing: New Critical Essays. Ed. Jo Gill. London: Routledge, 2005.

Poems published in Epoch (2005), North American Review (2005), Shade (2005), Spoon River Poetry Review (2005), Verse Daily (2005), Interim (2004), Michigan Quarterly Review (2004), Porter Gulch Review (2004, 2003), Red Rock Review (2004), River City (2004).