Alkalay-Gut Karen, English Dept.


Short Curriculum Vitae (highlights):


Education: University of Rochester, English, PhD, 1975

Major publications (books and major articles):


SELECTED ACADEMIC BOOKS AND ARTICLES

Alone in the Dawn: The Life of Adelaide Crapsey. Athens: University of Georgia Press, December 1988.

"Quilting Significance: ‘A Jury of Her Peers’," Studies in Short Fiction, Winter, 1984, 1-9,reprinted in: A Casebook on "A Jury of Her Peers," ed. Linda Ben Zvi,University of Michigan Press, 1998.

"’If Mark Twain Had a Sister’: Gender-Specific Values and Structure in Jean Webster’s Daddy Long-Legs," Journal of American Culture, Winter, 1993, V. 16, #4, 91-99.

"Ernest Dowson and the Strategies of Decadent Desire," Criticism xxxvi, #2 Spring, 1994, 243-263.

"Overcoming Time and Despair: Ernest Dowson’s Villanelle," Victorian Poetry 34, 1, 101-8, Spring 1996.

"The Thing he Loves: Murder as an Aesthetic Experience in ‘The Ballad of Reading Gaol,’" Victorian Poetry.

"Sex and the Single Engine: E.E. Cummings and an Experiment in Metaphoric Equation," Journal of Modern Literature

"The Twist of a Circle: Swinburne’s Round Match," Victorian Institutes Journal.


SELECTED POETRY BOOKS

1) Making Love: Poems. Tel Aviv: Achshav, 1980.

2) Butter Sculptures (Hebrew). Tel Aviv: Hakibbutz Hameuchad, 1983.

3) Mechitza. New York: Cross-Cultural Communications, 1986.

4) Ignorant Armies. Tel Aviv: Tentative Press, 1992.

5) Between Bombardments. Tel Aviv: Tentative Press, 1992

6) Love Soup. Tel Aviv: Tentative Press, 1992.

7) High School Girls. Tel Aviv: Tentative Press, 1992.

8) Recipes. Tel Aviv: Golan, 1994.

9) Harmonies/Disharmonies. Etc. Editions, 1994.

10) Ignorant Armies. New York: Cross Cultural Communications, 1994.

11) I/Thou and Other War Poems (Hebrew). Tel Aviv: Hakibbutz Hameuchad, 1994.

12) Paranormal Poems (Hebrew) Gvanim, 1997

13) Life in Israel -November 1995-1996 Whistle Press, 1997


POEMS
Poetry has appeared in The American Voice, Massachusetts Review, Prairie Schooner, Bitterroot, Webster Review, Cedermere Review, Moving Out, Lilith, The Double, arc, Argo, New Outlook, Jewish Frontier, Jerusalem Post, Ariel, Hoopoe, grasshopper, Forward, Jewish Quarterly, Israel Horizons, Present Tense, London Calling, Israel Magazine, Understanding, Gypsy, War, Literature, and the Arts, and other journals and anthologies.


RECENT EDITING: Tel Aviv Review 4, Jerusalem Review, PEN Israel Anthology 1997, English Poetry from Israel.

Teaches in the following subject areas:


Poetry, Victorian Poetry, Eightennth Century Poetry, American Poetry, Women’s Poetry

Teaches the following courses in the current academic year:


Late Victorian Poetry, Contemporary American Poetry, Poetry Analysis

Areas of current research interest:


Algernon Swinburne, Anne Sexton

Additional points of contact (office/home telephone,fax,etc.):


major links


http://www.whistle.org/kagut/kagutbk.htm

http://camel.conncoll.edu/library/CAPA/alkalay.mechitza.htm

http://www.ariga.com/visions/poetry/selva.htm

http://www.ariga.com/visions/poetry/karen2.htm

http://www.izone.israel.net/infuse/who.htm

http://www.morpo.novia.net/morpo/v1i4/v1i4

http://www.morpo.novia.net/morpo/v1i1/v1i1.html

http://www.wvmccd.cc.ca.us/wvc/library/av/leman/info/writers/Karen_Gut.html

http://www.fgcu.edu/~wohlpart/glaspell.html

http://www.izone.israel.net/infuse/who.htm

http://203.8.13.18/visions/poetry/annunc.htm

http://www.morpo.novia.net/morpo/v1i1/tangents.html

http://www.hooked.net/~jalsop/karengut.html

http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/hfs.cgi/99/georgia/87025575.ctl

http://www.usis-israel.org.il/publish/amartist.htm

http://www.usafa.af.mil/dfeng/wla_idx.htm

http://www.sbceo.k12.ca.us/~ahc/home/bisaac/ex1.htm

http://rodent.lib.rochester.edu/RBK/CRAPSEY2.HTM"

http://almond.srv.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/user/mmbt/www/women/writers.html

http://techunix.technion.ac.il/~ada/reich.html

http://www.indiana.edu/~iupress/journals/mod-toc.html

http://www.tiac.net/biz/bluemoon/lists/litcrit.htm

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