Frederick Marchant, Professor
Fred Marchant
ProfessorDirector of Creative Writing and
The Poetry Center
Department of English
41 Temple Street
Boston, MA 02114
Office: Fenton 329
Telephone: (617) 573-8053
Email: fjmarchant@aol.com
Degrees
Ph.D., The Committee on Social Thought, The University of Chicago
M.A., The Committee on Social Thought, The University of Chicago
B.A., English Literature, Brown University
Research Interests
Modern and Contemporary Poetry, Poetics, The Lyric Genre, Twentieth Century Literature, The Viet Nam War, Contemporary Vietnamese Literature, Contemporary Irish Poetry, The Pedagogy of Creative Writing
Publications
Tipping Point (poems), Winner of the 1993 Washington Prize
Full Moon Boat (poems)
House on Water, House in Air (poems)
From a Corner of My Yard (poems in translation) by Tran Dang Khoa, co-translated with Nguyen Ba Chung
William Stafford: The Early Years (edited volume of heretofore unpublished work), forthcoming 2008
Essays and poetry in journals, ranging from AGNI and Ploughshares to New American Writing and Irish Pages
Scholarly and Artistic Activities
Director of the Suffolk University Poetry Center
Teaching Associate of The William Joiner Center for the Study of War and Social Consequences at UMass-Boston
Annual Guest Teacher at The Veterans Writing Group, organized by Maxine Hong Kingston, Sesbastopol, CA
Workshop teacher in The Colrain Poetry Workshops
Teaching Fellow, The Frost Place, upcoming
Presentation upcoming at the Associated Writing Programs conference in Atlanta, GA. Presentation on “Literary Start-ups: The Suffolk University Poetry Center.”
Presentation upcoming at Thousands of Intricate Steps: A Conference on Artistic and Spiritual Responses to War and Peace at Lewis and Clark College in Portland, OR. Lecture on “The Poetics of Pacifism.”
Courses Taught
English 101 and 102: Composition Courses
English 213, 214, 215, 216: Survey Courses
English 364, 365: Modern and Contemporary American Poetry
English 375, 475: Poetry Workshops I and II
English 486: The Viet Nam War in History, Literature, Film
Honors Seminar Upcoming: American Poetry of the Mid-Twentieth Century