 Rachel Blau DuPlessis
http://wings.buffalo.edu/epc/authors/duplessis
rdupless@temple.edu
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Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Professor of English at Temple
University, is known as a feminist critic and scholar with a special
interest in modern and contemporary poetry, and as a poet and
essayist. In 2001, she published two books: Genders, Races, and
Religious Cultures in Modern American Poetry, 1908-1934 (Cambridge,
2001), a work of literary criticism, and Drafts 1-38, Toll (Wesleyan
University Press, 2001), a collection of her long poems. Between
1980 and 1998, she published six other books of poetry and two
chapbooks. DuPlessis 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).
DuPlessis has also published three coedited anthologies,
reflecting her interests in feminism, gender issues in
modernism, socially-inflected readings of poetry, and the
poetics of contemporary poetry. These are The Objectivist
Nexus: Essays in Cultural Poetics, with Peter Quartermain,
from the University of Alabama Press (1999); The Feminist
Memoir Project: Voices from Women's Liberation, with Ann
Snitow, from Three Rivers/Crown (1998); and Signets: Reading
H.D, with Susan Stanford Friedman, from the University of
Wisconsin Press (1990).
The work of DuPlessis appears in several
anthologies of poetry in the United States and France,
including Moving Borders: Three Decades of Innovative
Writing by Women (Talisman House, 1998) and it has been
translated into French as Essais: Quatre Poèmes (Un Bureau
Sur L'Atlantique, 1996). Recent periodical publications of
her poetry include Conjunctions, Grand Street, The Iowa
Review, Hambone, and Jacket (an online magazine at
http://www.jacket.zip.com.au/jacket14/duplessis.html). Her
scholarly articles appear in periodicals such as The Kenyon
Review, Diacritics, and American Literature and in
anthologies from the university presses of Virginia,
Michigan, Cambridge, Illinois, North Carolina, Wisconsin,
and Princeton. Her work has been anthologized in Poems for
the Millennium, vol. 2 (University of California Press);
in Artifice and Indeterminacy: New Essays in Poetics
(Alabama); in Dwelling in Possibility: Women Poets and
Critics on Poetry (Cornell); The New Feminist Criticism
(Pantheon); Why the Novel Matters (Indiana); Essentials
of the Theory of Fiction (Duke); Narrative/Theory
(Longman); Conversant Essays: Contemporary Poets on Poetry
(Wayne State); Onward: Contemporary Poetry and Poetics
(Peter Lang); and Virginia Woolf: A Collection of Critical
Essays, New Century Views (Prentice-Hall).
DuPlessis's work in poetry and in the essay
form has been discussed in recent books by Lynn Keller,
Burton Hatlen (in D. Hollenberg, ed.), Hank Lazer, Maggie
Humm, G. Douglas Atkins and Ruth Salvaggio. In 1990,
DuPlessis held a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts grant
for poetry, and in 1993, was honored by the Fund for
Poetry. She received Temple University's Creative
Achievement Award in 1999.
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