New Faculty

In fall 2007, the Missouri English Department welcomes four new additions to its faculty.

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Aliki Barnstone is a poet, translator, critic, and editor. Her books of poems are Blue Earth (Iris, 2004), Wild With It (Sheep Meadow, 2002), a National Books Critics Circle Notable Book, Madly in Love (Carnegie-Mellon, 1997), Windows in Providence (Curbstone, 1981), and The Real Tin Flower (which was introduced by Anne Sexton and was published by Macmillan in 1968, when she was twelve years old). Other books are The Collected Poems of C.P. Cavafy: A New Translation (W.W. Norton, 2006) and Changing Rapture: Emily Dickinson’s Poetic Development (University Press of New England, 2007). She has been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize twice. She edited A Book of Women Poets from Antiquity to Now (Schocken, 1980; second edition, 1992), The Calvinist Roots of the Modern Era (University Press of New England, 1997), The Shambhala Anthology of Women’s Spiritual Poetry (Shambhala, 1999; 2003), and she introduced and wrote the readers’ notes for H.D.’s Trilogy (New Directions, 1998). Her poems and translations have appeared in The American Poetry Review, The Georgia Review, New Letters, Pleiades, Prairie Schooner, The Southern Review, TriQuarterly, Virginia Quarterly Review, and elsewhere. She has recorded a collaborative CD with musician Frank Haney. She has a book forthcoming: Pique, a book of poems (the Sheep Meadow Press). Barnstone spent the fall of 2006 in Greece as a Senior Fulbright Scholar. Her Fulbright project is a book of poems in the voice of an imaginary poet, Eva Victoria Perera, a Sephardic Jew from Thessaloniki, who survives the Holocaust.

Jeff Rice received his PhD from the University of Florida in 2002. He was previously Assistant Professor of English and Director of Writing at The University of Detroit Mercy (2002 - 2004) and Assistant Professor of English at Wayne State University (2004-2007). He is the author of The Rhetoric of Cool: Composition Studies and New Media (SIUP 2007), Writing About Cool: Hypertext and Cultural Studies in the Computer Classroom (Longman 2002) and the co-editor of New Media/New Methods: The Turn from Literacy to Electracy (forthcoming Parlor Press 207). He has also published numerous essays on pedagogy, rhetoric, writing, and new media.

Jenny Edbauer Rice specializes in rhetorical theory, writing studies, and new media. She received her PhD in English from The University of Texas at Austin in 2005. Her work has appeared in Rhetoric Society Quarterly, JAC, College Composition and Communication, and Postmodern Culture. She is currently working on a book project addressing rhetoric and cultural affect. When not working, she is either running, blogging, or spending quality time with her new daughter.

Alexandra Socarides received her PhD in English from Rutgers University. Her dissertation, "Emily Dickinson and the Problem of Genre," examines the handmade books of poems that Dickinson made between 1858 and 1864, and situates their production in relation to other nineteenth-century compositional practices. Sections of it have appeared or will appear in the Emily Dickinson Journal, Blackwell's Companion to Emily Dickinson (eds. Mary Loeffelholz and Martha Nell Smith) and Dickinson's Fascicles: A Spectrum of Possibilities (eds. Paul Crumbley and Eleanor Heginbotham). She teaches American Poetry.