Assistant Professor

office: 57 McReynolds
phone: 573-884-0267
email: socaridesa@missouri.edu
office hours: Research leave 2009-2010

Research and teaching areas:
nineteenth-century American
literature and culture,
poetry and poetics

Alexandra Socarides

Alexandra Socarides received her PhD in English from Rutgers University in 2007. Her current book project, Just How the Fingers Hurried: The Making and Unmaking of Dickinson's Poetry, explores the material history of Emily Dickinson's poems and situates her process in relation to other nineteenth-century compositional practices. Sections of it have appeared in the Emily Dickinson Journal and A Companion to Emily Dickinson, and she has a forthcoming article in Dickinson's Fascicles: A Spectrum of Possibilities. She is interested in nineteenth-century poetry and poetics, women and gender studies, genre theory, and the history of the book. She teaches American Poetry.

Education

• PhD 2007, Rutgers University
• MFA 1999, Sarah Lawrence College

Selected Publications

• Alexandra Socarides. "Rethinking the Fascicles: Dickinson’s Writing, Copying, and Binding Practices." Emily Dickinson Journal 15.2 (2006): 69-94
• Alexandra Socarides. "The Poetics of Interruption: Dickinson, Death, and the Fascicles." A Companion to Emily Dickinson Eds. Mary Loeffelholz and Martha Nell Smith. Blackwell's Publishing, 2008. 309-333

Courses Taught

• English 3300: Survey of American Literature, Beginnings to 1865
• English 4100/7100: How To Make a Poem: The History, Theory, and Practice of American Poetry
• English 4310/7310: 19th C. American Women Poets
• English 4310/7310: Poetry of the American Renaissance
• English 4996: Honors Seminar in English
• English 8060: History of Poetics
• English 8310: American Elegy

Selected Awards

• National Humanities Center Summer Fellowship
• Scholar-in-Amherst Award, Emily Dickinson International Society
• Stephen Botein Fellowship, American Antiquarian Society

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