Timothy Materer Research

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Here is a short version of my Resume.

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	My book James Merrill's Apocalypse was published in May 2000 by Cornell University Press. Here's the Preface. .
	My Modernist Alchemy: Poetry and the Occult was published in December 1995 by Cornell University Press (240 pages, 11 illustrations, $29.95). Here's the Preface.
	With my friend Dr. Greg Foster, the founder of the T. S. Eliot Forum, I participate in an internet discussion forum of about 300 people who enjoy discussing the life and works of T.S. Eliot. Information about the list and other features are found at TSE Site. I also moderate a discussion forum devoted to the works of James Merrill: James Merrill Discussion Forum
	Currently I am writing about James Merrill's autobiographical poetry. An article titled "Confession and Autobiography in James Merrill's Early Poetry" appeared in the Summer 2003 Twentieth Century Literature. An article entitled “Mirrored Lives: Elizabeth Bishop and James Merrill” was published in the Summer 2005 Twentieth Century Literature, and "James Merrill's Polyphonic Muse" was published in Contemporary Literature for Summer 2006. "James Merrill's Late Poems: AIDS and the "Stripping Process," is forthcoming in The Arizona Quarterly. Here is a short biography that I wrote about Merrill for The Literary Encyclopedia. I organized a seminar on "The Modernist Poem in Midcentury America" for the Modernist Studies Association meeting in Madison, Wisconsin, October 2002. See the Modernist Studies Association Website for information about the MSA. In November 2005, I chaired a MSA seminar at the Chicago meeting entitled “Figuring the Self.” In May, I will present a paper on T. S. Eliot's poetry at the American Literature Association meeting in Boston.

Last revised: January 2007

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