Scott Cairns
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office: 226 Tate phone: 573-882-0669 email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. office hours: MTWR by appointment Research and teaching areas: modern and contemporary American literature; poetics; creative writing
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Scott Cairns teaches modern and contemporary American literature and creative writing. His poems have appeared in Poetry, The Atlantic Monthly, The Paris Review, The New Republic, Image, Spiritus, and Tiferet, and have been anthologized in Upholding Mystery (Oxford UP '96), Best Spiritual Writing (Harper Collins '98 and '00), and Best American Spiritual Writing (Houghton Mifflin, ‘04, ’05, and '06). His poetry collections include Compass of Affection: Poems New and Selected (Paraclete Press, ‘06), Philokalia (Zoo Press '02), Recovered Body (Braziller '98), Figures for the Ghost (U Georgia P '94), The Translation of Babel (U of Georgia P '90), and The Theology of Doubt (Cleveland State UP '85). With W. Scott Olsen, he co-edited The Sacred Place (U of Utah P '96), an anthology of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. His spiritual memoir, Short Trip to the Edge, (HarperSanFrancisco) and a collection of adaptations and translations, Love’s Immensity: Mystics on the Endless Life (Paraclete Press), both appeared in 2007. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2006.
Education
- PhD 1990, University of Utah
- MFA, 1981, Bowling Green State University
- MA, 1979, Hollins College
- BA, 1977, Western Washington University
Selected Publications
- Short Trip to the Edge (spiritual memoir) www.harpercollins.com
- Love's Immensity: Mystics on the Endless Life (translations/adaptations) www.paracletepress.com
- Compass of Affection: Poems New & Selected www.paracletepress.com
- Recovered Body New York: George Braziller Publishers, 1998. Reprint Eighth Day Press, 2003 eighthdaybooks.com
Courses Taught
- English 2000: Courses in English Studies: Modern American Poetry
- English 2000: Courses in English Studies: Poetry in Translation/Poetry as Translation
- English 2000: Frost, Stevens, Moore, and Bishop
- English 2000: Midrashim as Generative Model
- English 4040: Studies in Writing: The Spiritual Journey
- English 4530: Advanced Poetry Writing
- English 4520: Advanced Nonfiction Writing
- English 8520: Advanced Nonfiction Writing
- English 8530: Advanced Writing of Poetry
Selected Awards
- John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship