Jacqueline Brogan

Jacqueline Vaught Brogan’s research interests include language theory, poetics, modernism, cubism, genre construction, feminism, African-American literature, contemporary Native American literature, with particular interest in Wallace Stevens, Elizabeth Bishop, and Ernest Hemingway.  She is 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 Cordelia Candelaria); and The Violence Within/The Violence Without: Wallace Stevens and the Emergence of a “Revolutionary Poetics” (2003). She has published numerous articles on Wallace Stevens, Ernest Hemingway, Zora Neale Hurston, Elizabeth Bishop, June Jordan, Alice Walker, Adrienne Rich, and Sandra Gilbert.  In addition, she is a practicing poet, having published Damage in 2003 and most recently ta(l)king eyes, a book-length experimental poem (CHAX Press, 2009), as well as having been the featured poet for Poetry International, Connotations, Spring:  The E. E. Cummings Journal, and Boundary 2.  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 Stevens Journal and is an Executive Board Member of the American Literature Association and the Elizabeth Bishop Society.  Brogan is currently working on a monograph entitled Troubling Formations: Gender, Genre, and Geography in the Poetry of Elizabeth Bishop (forthcoming, University of Georgia Press).