Cornelius Eady
Associate Professor
Specialty
Poet, playwright
Profile
Cornelius Eady is the author of six books of poetry, including Victims of the Latest Dance Craze, which won the 1985 Lamont Prize from the Academy of American Poets, and Brutal Imagination, which was a finalist for the 2001National Book Award. In April 1999, Running Man, a music-theatre piece co-written with jazz musician Diedre Murray, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama and awarded a 1999 Obie for best musical score and lead actor in a musical. In January 2002, a production of Brutal Imagination (with a score by Diedre Murray) opened at the Vineyard Theatre in New York and won the 2002 George Oppenheimer/Newsday award for the best first play by an American Playwright. He has taught poetry at American University, SUNY Stony Brook, where he directed its Poetry Center, City College of New York, Sarah Lawrence College, and New York University. With poet Toi Derricote, he is co-founder of Cave Canem, a summer workshop/retreat for African American poets.
Selected Publications
Brutal Imagination. New York: G.P. Putnam, 2001.
The Autobiography of a Jukebox. Pittsburgh: Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1997.
You Don’t Miss Your Water. New York: H. Holt, 1995.
The Gathering of My Name. Pittsburgh: Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1991.
Victims of the Latest Dance Craze. Chicago: Ommation Press, 1986.
Eady, Cornelius and Diedre Murray. “Running Man.” Score and libretto, 1999. School of Music Library, University of Louisville.
Recent Awards and Honors
George Oppenheimer/Newsday Award, 2002
Finalist, National Book Award, 2001
Finalist, Pulitzer Prize in Drama, 1999
Obie for Best Musical Score, 1999
Contact Information
261 Decio Faculty Hall
Notre Dame, IN 46556
574 631 7068
Cornelius.R.Eady.1@nd.edu