Course Descriptions for Spring 2008 available here.
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Meena Alexander
Faculty Profile

Ph.D., Nottingham University, U.K.
Distinguished Professor, Hunter College. English.

Selected Publications:

  • The Poetic Self: Towards a Phenomenology of Romanticism (New Delphi: Arnold-Heinemann, 1979; paperback 1983; Atlantic Highlands, N.J.: Humanities Press, 1981).

  • Women in Romanticism: Mary Wollstonecraft, Dorothy Wordsworth and Mary Shelley (London: Macmillan, 1989/Lanham. Md.: Barnes and Noble, 1989).

  • Fault Lines (New York: Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 1993; Penguin India, 1994). Publishers Weekly Best Books of 1993; new expanded edition 2003.

  • The Shock of Arrival: Reflections on Postcolonial Experience (Boston: Southend Press, 1996).

  • Manhattan Music (San Francisco: Mercury House, 1997).

  • Illiterate Heart (TriQuarterly Books/Northwestern University Press, 2002). Winner of the PEN Open Book Award.

  • Raw Silk (TriQuarterly Books/Northwestern University Press, 2004)

  • Indian Love Poems, editor. (Everyman's Library/Knopf, 2005).

  • Quickly Changing River (TriQuarterly Books/ Northwestern University Press, 2008).

  • Poetics of Dislocation (University of Michigan Press, Poets on Poetry series, 2009).

  
PhD Program in English
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