Feinsod, Harris

College Fellow in English

University Hall Room 222
Telephone: (847) 467-1762
Fax: (847) 467-1545
E-mail: h-feinsod@northwestern.edu

Harris Feinsod (A.B., Brown, Ph.D., Stanford) teaches 20th and 21st century U.S. and Latin American literature and culture. His research focuses on comparative poetics and the history of poetry in English and Spanish, modernism and the historical avant-gardes in Europe and the Americas, transnational literary studies (especially the history of hemispheric literary and cultural relations), and the relation between postmodernism and the inter-ethnic cultures of the U.S. "new west." He is a former Geballe Fellow at the Stanford Humanities Center and he is a College Fellow at Northwestern in 2011-12. His articles have appeared in Telos and will be published in the forthcoming edition of the Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, for which he is an assistant editor. He blogs occasionally at Arcade: Literature, Humanities and the World. 

His current book project, Fluent Mundo: Inter-American Poetry, is a literary history of the relations between poets in the U.S. and Latin America in an era of cultural diplomacy, from the intensification of the Good Neighbor Policy at the onset of World War II through the cultural policy initiatives of the 1960s. Reading major poems by Bishop, Cardenal, Carrera Andrade, Ginsberg, Hughes, Lezama Lima, Neruda, Olson, Stevens, Williams and many others, Fluent Mundo tracks interchanges between state-sponsored inter-Americanism and avant-garde poetics. Recuperating a tradition of hemispheric literary journals, and revising prevalent views on the ethics of translation and dominant period styles, the book demonstrates how the evolving experience of hemispheric relations informed several generations of diverse mid-century poets in vanguard milieus and the halls of diplomatic officialdom.  

 

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