RACHEL BLAU DUPLESSIS
Presentation:
- «The Poetics of Postmodernism: Theory and Practice» (Spring Semester 2002)
Rachel Blau DuPlessis is an American poet and essayist, is known as a feminist critic and scholar with a special interest in modernist and contemporary poetry. DuPlessis teaches English and Creative Writing at Temple University and is the author of “Writing Beyond the Ending: Narrative Strategies of Twentieth-Century Women Writers” (1985), “H.D.: The Career of that Struggle” (1986), both from Indiana University Press; “The Pink Guitar: Writing as Feminist Practice” (Routledge, 1990) and “Genders, Races, and Religious Cultures in Modern American Poetry, 1908-1934” (Cambridge University Press, 2001). DuPlessis is the editor of “The Selected Letters of George Oppen” (Duke University Press, 1990), and the co-editor with Peter Quartermain of “The Objectivist Nexus: Essays in Cultural Poetics” (University of Alabama Press, 1999). Among some of her honors, she has received the Roy Harvey Pearce / Archive for New Poetry Prize (2002) as a scholar poet. In 2002 she was awarded a Pew Fellowship for Artists.