Research and teaching areas:
Modernism (International);
American Poetry (19th & 20th
Century)
Frances Dickey
Frances Dickey teaches courses on twentieth-century literature and American poetry. Her current project, "The Portrait in Modern American Poetry," examines the development of the portrait genre in relation to the visual arts, fiction, and early twentieth-century conceptions of the self. She has published articles on the poetry of Frost, Whitman, Bishop, and Eliot.
Education
Johns Hopkins University, Ph.D. 2002
Johns Hopkins University, M.A. 1997
Harvard University, A.B. 1992
Selected Publications
"Prufrock and Other Observations: A Walking Tour" Blackwell Companion to T. S. Eliot Forthcoming 2009
"Ezra Pound and the Ideology of Art" Twentieth-Century Literature 54.2 (Summer 2008), forthcoming. Review of Rebecca Beasley's Ezra Pound and the Visual Culture of Modernism
"Opening the Box" Essays in Criticism 57.1 (Winter 2007): 73-81. Review essay of Elizabeth Bishop’s Edgar Allan Poe and the Juke-Box: Uncollected Poems, Drafts, and Fragments
"Parrot's Eye: A Portrait by Manet and Two by T. S. Eliot" Twentieth-Century Literature 52.2 (Summer 2006): 1-34.
"Bishop, Dewey, Darwin: What Other People Know" Contemporary Literature 44.2 (Summer 2003): 301-331.
co-authored with Jimmie Killingsworth. "Love of Comrades: The Urbanization of Community in Whitman’s Poetry and Pragmatist Philosophy" Walt Whitman Quarterly 21.1 (Summer 2003): 1-24.
"Questions that Have No Reply: Robert Frost's Problem of Other Minds" New England Quarterly 75.2 (June 2002): 299-311.
Courses Taught
English 3310: Survey of American Literature, 1865-Present
English 4169/7169: Major Authors, 1890 to Present
English 8320: Collaboration in Modern American Poetry
Selected Awards
Andrew J. Kapppel Prize in Literary Criticism from Twentieth-Century Literature, 2006
Purple Chalk Award for Undergraduate Teaching, 2008
T. S. Eliot Young Scholar Award, 2003
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