Sue Standing
Professor of English, Writer in Residence
Degrees
A.B., Oberlin College
M.A., Boston University
Main Interests
Contemporary poetry and poetics
Contemporary fiction
African literature & film
Research Interests
Poetry
African literature
Teaching Interests
Creative Writing
African literature
Composition
Other Interests
Artistic collaboration: visual/verbal, verbal/musical
Literary translation
Women's literature
European and Latin American literature
Indian literature
Student Projects
Honors projects in creative writing
Independent studies in creative writing and literature
Collaborative projects in writing and visual art
Selected Publications, Creative Work or Performances
Books:
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False Horizon(2003), poems,Four Way Books;
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Gravida (1995), poems, Four Way Books (selected by
Robert Pinsky for the Four Way Books Award Series in Poetry);
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Deception Pass (1984), poems, Alice James Books;
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Amphibious Weather (1981), poems, Zephyr Press.
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Artistic collaborations:
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The Cape Split Cycle (1998), poems and monotypes, collaboration with artist Katherine Kadish, exhibition catalog,
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts;
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Poems and fiction in journals:
Work has appeared recently in Agni, The American Scholar, The Atlantic Monthly, Denver Quarterly,The Iowa Review, Orion, Ploughshares, and Southwest Review
Articles and essays:
"Language as Mosaic: Memory and Cultural Representation in the Writing of Julia Alvarez, Sandra Cisneros, Louise Erdrich, and Maria Infante" (2001), in Profils Americains, #13, Universite Paul-Valery, Montpellier, France.
"In Jo's Garrett: Little Women and the Space of Imagination" (1999), in Little Women and the Feminist Imagination, eds. Alberghene and Clark, Garland Publishing.
"New Literature from Zimbabwe" (1998), essay and edited selection, in Compost Magazine #9.