Jacqueline Vaught Brogan
Professor
Specialty
Twentieth-century American literature, language theory
Degrees
B.A., M.A., Southern Methodist University; Ph.D., University of Texas, Austin
Profile
Jacqueline Vaught Brogan’s research interests include language theory, poetics, modernism, genre construction, feminism, African-American literature, and contemporary Native American literature. She is the author of Stevens and Simile: A Theory of Language (1986); Part of the Climate: American Cubist Poetry (1991); Women Poets of the Americas: Toward a Pan-American Gathering (1999, co-edited with Cordelai Candelaria); and, most recently, The Violence Within/ The Violence Without: Wallace Stevens and the Emergence of a "Revolutionary Poetics" (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2003). She has published articles on Wallace Stevens, Ernest Hemingway, Zora Neale Hurtson, Elizabeth Bishop, June Jordan, Adrienne Rich, and Alice Walker. In addition, she is a practicing poet, most recently publishing Damage (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2003) and has been the featured poet in such journals as Poetry International and Spring: The E. E. Cummings Journal. She is the recipient of numerous grants, including an NEH Fellowship and a Fulbright. She serves on the Editorial Boards of Contemporary Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature, and The Wallace Steven Journal and is an Executive Board Member of the Elizabeth Bishop Society and the American Literature Association.Brogan is currently working on a monograph entitled Gender/Genre Trouble: Elizabeth Bishop's 'Pervisions' of Reigning Poetics and Politics.
Recent Publications (and forthcoming work)
"'Inessential Houses' in Wallace Stevens and Elizabeth Bishop." The Wallace Stevens Journal 29.1 (2005): 25-33.
"Stevens and the Feminine." In The Cambridge Companion to Wallace Stevens, edited by John Serio. Cambridge: University of Cambridge, 180-92. In press.
"June Jordan." The Thomson Anthology of American Literature, vol. 5, edited by Henry Hart. Boston: Thomson Wadsworth, forthcoming.
"Wallace Stevens.” In The Thomson Anthology of American Literature, vol. 4, edited by Martha J. Cutter. Boston: Thomson Wadsworth, forthcoming.
Contact Information
209 Decio Faculty Hall
(574-) 631-6120
jbrogan@nd.edu
http://www.nd.edu/~jbrogan/