Stephen Fredman

Professor
Department of English

Degrees

B.F.A., California Institute of the Arts; M.A., California State University, Sonoma; Ph.D., Stanford University

Research Profile

Fredman's field is 20th-century American poetry and poetics. His first book, Poet's Prose: The Crisis in American Verse (Cambridge UP, 1983; 2nd. ed., 1990), is concerned with the theoretical and historical conditions that make contemporary poetry viable. His second study, The Grounding of American Poetry: Charles Olson and the Emersonian Tradition (Cambridge UP, 1993), examines the tradition of avant-garde writers in America. His third book, A Menorah for Athena: Charles Reznikoff and the Jewish Dilemmas of Objectivist Poetry (U Chicago P, 2001), discusses modern American poetry and Jewish identity. He has edited A Concise Companion to 20th-Century American Poetry (Blackwell, 2005) and has completed a new book, Contextual Practice: Assemblage and the Erotic in Postwar Poetry and Art. Research and teaching interests include the use of performance and new media in postmodern art, the West Coast aesthetic, and the impact of collage on 20th-Century arts. He has been awarded NEH, ACLS, and Lilly fellowships.

Contact Information

367 Decio Faculty Hall
631-7555
sfredman@nd.edu
http://english.nd.edu/faculty/profiles/stephen-fredman/index.shtml