Rachel Blau DuPlessis rdupless@temple.edu 215-204-1810 Anderson 954

The newest critical book by DuPlessis is Genders, Races, and Religious Cultures in Modern American Poetry, 1908-1934 (Cambridge University Press, 2001). She is also the author of Writing Beyond the Ending: Narrative Strategies of Twentieth-Century Women Writers (1985), H.D.: The Career of that Struggle (1986), both from Indiana University Press, and The Pink Guitar: Writing as Feminist Practice (Routledge, 1990). She is the editor of The Selected Letters of George Oppen (Duke University Press, 1990), and the co-editor with Peter Quartermain of The Objectivist Nexus: Essays in Cultural Poetics , from The University of Alabama Press (1999). The Feminist Memoir Project: Voices from Women's Liberation , co-edited with Ann Snitow, was published by Three Rivers/Crown in 1998. She is also the co-editor with Susan Stanford Friedman, of Signets: Reading H.D. (University of Wisconsin Press, 1990).

In 1990, she held a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts grant for poetry, and in 1993, she received an award from the Fund for Poetry. In 2002, DuPlessis was awarded the third Roy Harvey Pearce/Archive for New Poetry Prize, given biennially to an American poet/scholar who has made a significant lifetime contribution to American poetry and literary scholarship. In 2002 she was also awarded a Pew Fellowship in the Arts.

Aside from poetry workshops, Professor DuPlessis teaches courses in modern and contemporary poetry and poetics. Recent courses taught have included "Modern American Poetry," "The Twentieth Century Long Poem," "Graduate Survey of Anglo-American Poetry" and "Gender, Poetry, and Poetics."