Miranda Brun Hickman
Transatlantic modernisms, modern poetry, gender and modernism, textual criticism, gender studies, history of twentieth-century literary criticism, the Victorian fin de si猫cle, periodical studies; women in cultural criticism in British interwar culture and the construction of authority; history of English as a discipline; poetry and public cultures.
I work in transatlantic modernist studies and twentieth-century studies, with a focus on early twentieth-century poetry and experimental fiction, often through the lenses of gender and feminist studies, textual scholarship, and literary and cultural history. Another area of inquiry is the history of the discipline 鈥� and big tent 鈥� that we still call 鈥淓nglish,鈥� with an eye toward how such practices as criticism and 鈥渃lose reading鈥� have been theorized in evolving ways as the field has developed. I am co-founder and director of the Poetry Matters initiative at 海角社区.
Recent work in feminist modernist studies has taken me to modernist classical reception鈥攅specially poet H.D.鈥檚 translations of Euripides; to pioneering film critic Iris Barry; to early twentieth-century critic Q.D. Leavis; and to early twentieth-century avant-garde artists Jessie Dismorr and Helen Saunders. I am author of The Geometry of Modernism (2005), author and editor of One Must Not Go Altogether with the Tide: The Letters of Ezra Pound and Stanley Nott (2011); coeditor (with J. McIntyre) of Rereading the New Criticism (2012), and coeditor (with L. Kozak) of The Classics in Modernist Translation (2019). Current work focuses on deep literacy and poetic attention, as well as on the female public intellectual in interwar Britain.
Academic Positions:
Director, Poetry Matters Project
Acting Director, Institute for Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies (2019-20)
Acting Associate Dean, Arts (2018-19)
M.A., Ph.D., (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)
B.A., (Brown)
Books
(海角社区 Queen鈥檚 UP, 2011)
听(University of Texas Press, 2006)
Edited Volumes
, eds. Miranda Hickman and Lynn Kozak (Bloomsbury, 2019). Includes Hickman and Kozak, 鈥淩einventing Eros: H.D.鈥檚 Translation of Euripides鈥� Hippolytus.鈥�
eds. Miranda Hickman and John D. McIntyre. (Ohio State University Press, 2012鈥攔eissued in paperback, 2015)
Articles and Book Chapters
鈥淨.D. Leavis, Archives, and the 鈥楢rt of Living.鈥欌�� Historicizing Modernisms (Bloomsbury, 2021)
鈥淢ixing the Brows in Print: Iris Barry鈥檚 Film Criticism.鈥� Women, Periodicals, and Print Culture in Britain, 1880-1920 (Edinburgh University Press, 2019)
鈥淧oppies, scarlet flowers, 鈥榯his beauty鈥�: H.D.鈥檚 Choruses from the Iphigeneia in Aulis and the First World War鈥� (coauthored with Lynn Kozak). Classical Receptions Journal 10.4 (October 2018)
鈥�Self Condemned: Casualties of the Vortex.鈥� Wyndham Lewis. (Edinburgh University Press, 2015)
鈥淢odernist Women Poets.鈥� A Companion to Modernist Poetry. (Wiley-Blackwell, 2014)
鈥淭he Gender of Vorticism: Jessie Dismorr and Helen Saunders.鈥� Vorticism: New Perspectives (Oxford University Press, 2013)
鈥溾�楿ncanonically Seated鈥�: H.D. and Literary Canons.鈥� The Cambridge Companion to H.D. (2011)
鈥淢odernist Women Poets and the Problem of Form.鈥� The Cambridge Companion to Modernist Women Writers. (2010)
鈥溾�楴ot ... Love-Verses at All, I Perceive鈥�: Joyce鈥檚 Minor Works.鈥� Visions and Revisions: James Joyce. (Irish Academic Press, 2009)
鈥淭he Complex Art of Raymond Chandler鈥檚 鈥楾he Simple Art of Murder,鈥� Studies in the Novel 25.3. (2003)
鈥�'Sparse and Geometric Contour': Transformations of the Body in H.D.'s Nights,鈥� Twentieth Century Literature 47.3. (2001)
Reviews
, by Michael Coyle and Roxana Preda (Modernism/ modernity: Modernist Baedekers, Fall 2019)
- Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Connection Grants, 2021-22, 2019-20, 2018-19 (Poetry Matters)
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Insight Grant, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, 2013-2018
- H. Noel Fieldhouse Award for Distinguished Teaching, Faculty of Arts, 海角社区, 2013
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Louis Dudek Award for Teaching Excellence, Department of English, 海角社区, 2009 and 2010
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Carrie M. Derick Award for Excellence in Graduate Supervision and Teaching, 海角社区, 2006
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Social Science and Humanities Research Council Grant,听for an annotated edition of the correspondence of Ezra Pound and publisher Stanley Nott,听2003
Open to graduate supervision in the areas of transatlantic modernisms, especially poetry and experimental fiction; early to mid-twentieth-century literature; gender studies, women鈥檚 writing, and history of feminism; textual scholarship; history of English as a discipline.
University of Tulsa
University of Michigan, Ann Arbour听