Miranda Brun Hickman
Transatlantic modernisms, modern poetry, gender and modernism, textual criticism, gender studies, history of twentieth-century literary criticism, the Victorian fin de siècle, 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 – and big tent – that we still call “English,” with an eye toward how such practices as criticism and “close reading” have been theorized in evolving ways as the field has developed. I am co-founder and director of the Poetry Matters initiative at McGill.
Recent work in feminist modernist studies has taken me to modernist classical reception—especially poet H.D.’s 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
One Must Not Go Altogether with the Tide: The Letters of Ezra Pound and Stanley Nott (McGill Queen’s UP, 2011)
The Geometry of Modernism (University of Texas Press, 2006)
- 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, McGill University, 2013
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Louis Dudek Award for Teaching Excellence, Department of English, McGill University, 2009 and 2010
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Carrie M. Derick Award for Excellence in Graduate Supervision and Teaching, McGill University, 2006
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Social Science and Humanities Research Council Grant, for an annotated edition of the correspondence of Ezra Pound and publisher Stanley Nott, 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’s writing, and history of feminism; textual scholarship; history of English as a discipline.
University of Tulsa
University of Michigan, Ann Arbour