Romana Huk
Associate Professor
Specialty
Twentieth-century British literature, postmodern poetries
Degrees
B.A., College of William and Mary; Ph.D., University of Notre Dame
Profile
Romana Huk is co-editor of Contemporary British Poetry: Essays in Theory and Criticism, editor of Assembling Alternatives: Reading Postmodern Poetries Transnationally, and author of Stevie Smith: Between the Lines. Her numerous essays on contemporary poetry and poetics have appeared in book collections from presses such as Blackwell, Cornell University Press, and Edinburgh University Press as well as in journals such as Contemporary Literature and The Yale Journal of Criticism. She has written on issues ranging from working class difference in writing and performance (in the work of Tony Harrison) to gender politics (in the work of Smith and avant-garde poets such as Denise Riley) and racial inflections in radical practice (such as those of Jean 'Binta' Breeze and David Marriott). Her current two book projects involve the relations between post-WWII British Poetry and literary/cultural theory (for Blackwell Publishers) and transnational avant-garde aesthetics and postmodern theology.
Recent Publications
“Poetry and Religion.” In Companion to Post-War British and Irish Poetry, edited by Nigel Alderman and Charles Blanton. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, forthcoming.
Stevie Smith: Between the Lines. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
Huk, Romana, ed. Assembling Alternatives: Reading Postmodern Poetries Transnationally. Middletown, CN: Wesleyan University Press, 2003.
"In the Wake of Negative Theology: Postmodern Poetry's Millennial Spiritualism." In Poesie Americaine 1950-2000. Special section of 'Hui 56/57 (2002): 191-204.
“The Progress of the Avant-Garde: Reading/Writing Race and Culture According to Universal Systems of Value.” In Poetry and Contemporary Culture, edited by Andrew Roberts and Jonathan Allison. 141-164. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2002.
“In AnOther’s Pocket: The Address of the ‘Pocket-Epic’ in Postmodern Black British Poetry.” The Yale Journal of Criticism 13, no. 1 (Spring, 2000): 23-47.
Huk, Romana and James Acheson, eds. Contemporary British Poetry: Essays in Theory and Criticism. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1996.
Recent Awards and Honors
2000: Two-year fellowship to research the intersections between postmodern theology and poetry, Oxford Brookes University, Centre for Modern and Contemporary Poetry Oxford, England.
1998: University of New Hampshire, Vice-President for Research Senior Faculty Fellowship support for one semester’s leave to research Black British poetics in London’s East End.
Contact Information
307 Decio Faculty Hall
(574) 631-5798
huk.1@nd.edu