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Ruth Ozeki
Biography Novelist and filmmaker Ruth Ozeki was born in New Haven, Connecticut in 1956 to an American father and a Japanese mother. She received a BA with a double major in English Literature and Asian Studies from Smith College in … Continue reading
Kyle Hutzler
Kyle Hutzler, Yale College ’14, writes for the Huffington Post. He has traveled in Asia and South America and has worked for the U.S. International Trade Commission and McKinsey & Co. His Wiki contributions: Agha Shahid Ali Richard Powers
Anthology & Annotations
The anthology, edited by a team of students and faculty — Jordan Brower, Wai Chee Dimock, Edgar Garcia, Tao Goffe, Kyle Hutzler, Nick Rinehart, and William Willis — is forthcoming in early 2016 from Columbia University Press. We’ll be … Continue reading
Richard Powers
Born on June 18, 1957 in Evanston, Illinois, Richard Powers, is an American novelist known for his works on the impact of modern science and technology. He is the writer of 9 books and numerous published articles (in venues including … Continue reading
Agha Shahid Ali
Agha Shahid Ali (1949-2001), born in New Delhi in 1949 and raised in Kashmir, was a Kashmiri-American poet. Ali was educated at the University of Kashmir, Srinagar and the University of New Delhi before coming to America in his early … Continue reading
On Carl Sandburg’s “Buttons”
“Are they assigned, or can the countries pick their colors?” wonders Elizabeth Bishop in her whimsical poem “The Map” (1946). It’s an odd sort of utopian fantasy, where the land and sea, once depicted by the map-maker, produce their own … Continue reading
Gatsby Made Great
I’ve been trying to figure out why the ending of the recent Gatsby film felt so flat to me, and I think it’s because it lacks the animating pathos of the final confrontation of origin stories that drove the plot … Continue reading
Elizabeth Bishop: “Brazil, January 1, 2015” or “Manuelzinho:?
May 1, 2015 The Table of Contents, the print anthology as a finite, bounded object — they loom large. While they do that, though, this blog is going to hold out for a little longer, not going there yet. … Continue reading
Symptomatic reading, surface reading
Thanks to everyone for an incredible conference — my head is still abuzz with all the talks and discussions. It seems that most of us feel that a strictly symptomatic reading isn’t quite enough, that there needs to be … Continue reading
American Literature in the World Blog
Greetings, everyone! We hope that this blog will serve as a forum to enrich and extend the conversations we start at the conference on April 19. All participants in the conference have been given “author” access to this website and … Continue reading