Professor

office: 228 Tate
phone: 573-882-6273
email: materert@missouri.edu
web: web.missouri.edu/~materert/
office hours: MW 2-3 and
by appointment

Research and teaching areas:
20th Century Literature and
Modern Poetics
 

Timothy Materer

Timothy Materer is the author of James Merrill's Apocalypse (Cornell 2000), Modernist Alchemy: Poetry and the Occult (Cornell 1995), Vortex: Pound, Eliot, Lewis (Cornell 1979), and Wyndham Lewis the Novelist (Wayne State University 1976); and he has edited two volumes of Ezra Pound's letters, Pound/Lewis: The Letters of Ezra Pound and Wyndham Lewis (New Directions and Faber 1985) and The Selected Letters of Ezra Pound to John Quinn (Duke 1991). He has received grants from the NEH, ACLS, and the Guggenheim Foundation and is on the editorial board of the journal Twentieth Century Literature. His publications include articles on T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Sylvia Plath and James Merrill. He wrote the annual chapters on Modern Poetry in American Literary Scholarship (Duke 1995-2000) and is the moderator of the James Merrill electronic discussion list. He has received Twentieth Century Literature's award for the best article of the year ("Occultism in Sylvia Plath," 1991), a Gold Chalk Graduate Teaching award (1996), a Big 12 Fellowship (2001), the Byler Distinguished Professor Award (2004), and Lambda Chi Alpha's "Professor of the Year" award (2006). He received an NEH Fellowship for 2004-05 to write on James Merrill and Elizabeth Bishop. In addition to encyclopedia entries on subjects such as Imagism and Vorticism, recent publications include "Mirrored Lives: James Merrill and Elizabeth Bishop" in Twentieth-Century Literature (Summer 2005) and "James Merrill's Polyphonic Muse" in Contemporary Literature (Summer 2006). With the cooperation of Washington University, he is now making the unpublished poetry manuscripts of James Merrill available on the web.

Education
PhD 1968, Stanford University

Selected Publications

• Timothy Materer. "James Merrill's Polyphonic Muse." Contemporary Literature (Winter 2006)
• Timothy Materer. "Poetry: A Magazine of Verse." American History Through Literature, 1820-1870 Ed. Thomas V. Quirk and Gary Scharnhorst. V.2. New York: Charles Scribner's, 2006. 850-53.
• Timothy Materer. "Imagism." American History Through Literature 1820-1870 Ed. Thomas V. Quirk and Gary Scharnhorst. V.2. New York: Charles Scribner's, 2006. 483-86
• Timothy Materer. "Mirrored Lives: James Merrill and Elizabeth Bishop." Twentieth-Century Literature 51.2 (Summer 2005): 179-209
• Timothy Materer. "Vorticism." The Ezra Pound Encyclopedia Ed. Demetres P. Tryphonopoulos and Stephen J. Adams. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 2005. 230-32.
• Timothy Materer. "James Merrill." The Literary Encyclopedia (invited) University of East Anglia, Norwich. Fall 2005. www.litencyc.com
• Timothy Materer. James Merrill's Apocalypse (Cornell, 2000) www.cornellpress.cornell.edu
• Author. James Merrill's Late Poetry: AIDS and "The Stripping Process" Arizona Quarterly (2008)

Courses Taught

• English 4140/7140: Modern Literature
• English 4140: Modern Literature
• English 4970: Capstone Experience
• English 7140: Modern Literature
• English 8320: Seminar in 20th-Century American Literature

Selected Awards

• Byler Distinguished Faculty Award
• Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship
• National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship

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