Paul Breslin

Professor of English

University Hall Room 208
Telephone: (847) 491-3315
Fax: (847) 467-1545
E-mail: p-breslin@northwestern.edu

Paul Breslin (Ph.D. University of Virginia) teaches and researches Modern and Contemporary American Poetry and Caribbean Literature. He is author of The Psycho-Political Muse: American Poetry since the Fifties ( Chicago , 1987); You Are Here (poems, TriQuarterly Books, Fall 2000); and Nobody's Nation: Reading Derek Walcott ( Chicago , 2001). His poems, essays, and reviews have appeared in Agni , American Poetry Review, American Scholar , Callaloo , Modernism/Modernity , The New Republic , The New York Times Book Review , Ploughshares , Poetry , TriQuarterly , Virginia Quarterly , and elsewhere. He has won six Illinois Arts Council prizes for literary essays and poems, and was twice winner of Poetry magazine's George Kent prize. In 2003, he was the first non-Caribbean speaker to give the annual Derek Walcott lecture in St. Lucia , an event established in 1993. In 2005 he was co-editor of a special Walcott issue of Callaloo . Currently, he is finishing up a second volume of poems and embarking on a study of narratives of the Haitian Revolution, which are the subject of his essay, “‘The First Epic of the New World': But How Shall It Be written,” forthcoming from University of Virginia press in The Tree of Liberty , edited by Doris Lorraine Garraway. He is a faculty associate of the graduate programs in Comparative Literary Studies (CLS), Latin American and Caribbean Studies (LACS), and the Interdisciplinary PhD in Theatre and Drama.

Publications by Paul Breslin

Nobody's Nation: Reading Derek Walcott

The Psycho-Political Muse: American Poetry Since the Fifties

You Are Here

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