Recent professional activities by Stephen Fredman, Professor Emeritus, English

Author: Kelli Brown

Stephen Fredman

Publications:

Monographs:

American Poetry as Transactional Art. Modern and Contemporary Poetics Series. Tuscaloosa:  University of Alabama Press, 2020. xiii + 242 pp. Paper.

Editorial Projects:

Robert Creeley and Marisol. Presences: A Text for Marisol, A Critical Edition. Ed. Stephen Fredman. Recencies Series: Research and Recovery in Twentieth-Century American Poetics. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2018. xxvi + 166. Cloth.

Creative Writing:

Pass Through: A Book of Memory Pieces [Starting from San Diego]. Cincinnati: Dos Madres Press, 2022. 115 pp. Paper.

Articles:

“After Poet’s Prose: Postgeneric Writing in the Ongoing Crisis of Verse.” The Edinburgh Companion to the Prose Poem. Eds. Mary Ann Caws and Michel Delville. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2021. 295-309.

Lectures and Conferences:

“Robert Duncan’s Genealogies (Dante and Whitman),” Online presentation to Société d’études modernistes, October 20, 2023.

“The Method of Irreducible Detail: Charles Reznikoff the Historian.” Keynote lecture, “Charles Reznikoff: Inscriptions (1894-1976),” Université Paris Nanterre, June 3, 2023.

“Between Dante and Whitman: Robert Duncan’s ‘Dante Études,’” Devers Program in Dante Studies “Dante in America” Series, University of Notre Dame, September 2, 2021.

“‘Difficulties Are Once More’: Charles Olson, John Dewey, and The Rhythm of Experience,” Tenth Annual Charles Olson Lecture, Cape Ann Museum, Gloucester, MA, October 26, 2019. Video at https://vimeo.com/630098426.

“Laurie Anderson in the Reagan Eighties,” Institute of English Studies, Contemporary Poetry Research Seminar, University of London/Royal Holloway, Bedford Square, London, June 19, 2019.

“Robert Duncan, David Antin, and the Performance of Experience,” Keynote lecture, “‘Passages’: The Robert Duncan Centennial Conference in Paris,” Sorbonne & Maison de la Recherche, Paris, June 13, 2019.

“The Rhythm of Experience: Black Mountain Poetry and John Dewey,” “Beyond Metrical Prosody: New Rhythms in US and German (Post-) Modern Poetry,” Free University of Berlin, May 19, 2018.

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