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Linda Leavell
Professor
PhD, Rice University
Areas of Interest & Expertise
- 20th-century American literature
- Poetry
- Modernism in literature and the visual arts
- Biography
- Marianne Moore
Recent Upper Division & Graduate Courses Taught
- Marianne Moore and Elizabeth Bishop
- Literary Biography
- American Women Modernists
- Expatriate American Literature
- Writing a Woman’s Life
- Modernism in Literature and the Visual Arts
Selected Publications
Books and edited volumes:
Possessed to Write: A Biography of Marianne Moore. Under contract with Farrar, Straus & Giroux. Represented by the Susan Rabiner Literary Agency.
Guest Editor. Literary Biography. Special issue of South Central Review 23.3 (Fall 2006). (Link to the issue on Muse)
Co-editor with Cristanne Miller and Robin G. Schulze. Critics and Poets on Marianne Moore: "A Right Good Salvo of Barks." Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell UP, 2005.( Link to book on Barnes & Noble)
Marianne Moore and the Visual Arts: Prismatic Color. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 1995.Winner of the SCMLA Book Award. (Link to Book at Barnes & Nobles)
Articles:
"Frightening Disinterestedness: The Personal Circumstances of Marianne Moore's 'Marriage.'" Journal of Modern Literature, 31.1 (Fall 2007): 64-79. (Link to Full Text on Muse)
"Marianne Moore Instructs her Biographer: 'Relentless accuracy' versus 'the haggish, uncompanionable drawl of certitude.'" South Central Review 23.3 (Fall 2006): 76-88. (Link to Full Text on Muse)
"Marianne Moore in Kirkwood: Kindergarten to Kandinsky." In Critics and Poets on Marianne Moore, 25-39.
“Marianne Moore.” Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Poets and Poetry. Ed. Jeffrey Gray. 5 vols. Westport, CT: Greenwood P, 2006.
“Marianne Moore’s Emily Dickinson.” Emily Dickinson Journal 12.2 (2003): 1-20. (Link to Full Text on Muse)
“Marianne Moore, the James Family, and the Politics of Celibacy.” Twentieth-Century Literature 49.2 (2003): 219-45. (Link to Full Text on Proquest)
“Marianne Moore, Her Family, and Their Language,” Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 147.2 (June 2003), 140-49. (Link to this article as a PDF)
Honors & Offices
- Co-organizer, “A Right Good Salvo of Barks”: Marianne Moore Conference. State College, PA, 28-29 March 2003.
- President, Oklahoma Conference AAUP, 1996-97
Recent Grants & Research Trips
- Oregon State University Center for the Humanities Visiting Research Fellowship. 2008.
- NEH Fellowship, 2005-6
- Oklahoma Humanities Council research grant, 1998, 2000, 2002
- American Philosophical Society Sabbatical Fellowship, 1999-2000
- NEH Summer Stipend, 1999
- Participant, NEH Summer Seminar on Literary Biography, 1998
Recent Conference Presentations
"Frightening Disinterestedness: The Personal Circumstances of Marianne Moore's Marriage." Modernist Studies Association Conference. Tulsa, 22 October 2006.
“Marianne Moore Instructs Her Biographer: ‘Relentless accuracy’ vs. ‘the haggish, uncompanionable drawl of certitude.’” Whitney Humanities Center. Yale University. New Haven, 7 October 2003.
“Marianne Moore’s Emily Dickinson.” Opening Address. Emily Dickinson International Society Meeting. Philadelphia, 27 June 2003.
“Marianne Moore in Kirkwood: Kindergarten to Kandinsky.” A Right Good Salvo of Barks: Marianne Moore Conference. State College, PA, 29 March 2003.
“Marianne Moore, Her Family, and Their Language.” American Philosophical Society meeting. Philadelphia, 26 April 2002.
“Collage, Photography, the Readymade, and the Poetry of Marianne Moore.” Keynote Address. Graduate Student Symposium. University of Missouri. Columbia, 15 February 2002.
English Department
College of Arts & Sciences
Oklahoma State University
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