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Bush, Professor Ron
Job Title: Drue Heinz Professor of American Literature
College: St John's
Period/ Subject: American
Email address: Ron.Bush@ell.ox.ac.uk
Research Interests:
I am in the last stages of (within a year or two of submitting) a twenty-year project involving a genetic study and critical edition of Ezra Pound's Pisan Cantos, including an annotated edition of a largely unpublished ur-text in Italian and a critical edition drawing on archive materials starting with a heavily revised MS text and a near-chaotic author's TS. The project is proceeding with the assistance and collaboration of Prof. David Ten Eyck of Nancy University in France and has used archival materials from several dozen manuscript libraries, principally the Beinecke Library at Yale and the Houghton Library at Harvard. It will be a two-volume publication and will be done by OUP. When the Pound project is over I will take up a critical biography turned biographical critical study of James Joyce, which is about a third done and will require several more intensive years of work when I go back to it.
Teaching Areas:
American literature from the beginnings the present; Modernist poetry and fiction.
Recent Publications:
“Joyce’s Modernisms.” In Palgrave Advances in James Joyce Studies, ed. by Jean-Michel Rabaté (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004 ), pp. 10-38.
“Modernist Poetry and Poetics.” In The Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century English Literature, ed. by Laura Marcus and Peter Nicholls. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004, pp. 232-250.
“In Pursuit of the Wilde Possum: Reflections on Eliot, Modernism and the Nineties,” Modernism/Modernity XI. 3 (September 2004), pp. 469-85.
“Towards Pisa: Ezra Pound’s Roman ‘Emperors’,” Revista di Letteratura d'America, XXIII.98/99 (2003) [2005], pp. 135-59.
“Imagist Poetics and the Cultural Politics of Modernism.”In Ambassadors: American Studies in a Changing World. Ed. by Massimo Bacigalupo and Gregory Dowling. Rapallo: AGB Editore, 2006, pp. 419-426.
“Pound, Emerson, and Thoreau: The Pisan Cantos and the Politics of American Pastoral.” In Ezra Pound and American Identity. A special issue of Paideuma, ed. by Hugh Witemeyer, Paideuma 34: 2-3 (Fall & Winter 2005[2006]): 271-92.
“‘The Descent of the Barbarians’: The Pisan Cantos and Cultural Memory.” In Modernism/Modernity, 14.1 (January 2007), pp. 71-95.
“The Expatriate in Extremis: Caterina Sforza, Fascism, and Ezra Pound’s Pisan Cantos,” Revista di Letteratura d'America XXV.108-9 (2005) [2007], pp. 27-43.
“Tennis by the Book: Lolita and Art in Modernist Fiction.” In Transitional Nabokovs, ed. Will Norman and Duncan White. (forthcoming, Peter Lang).
A review of Call it English: The Languages of Jewish American Literature. By Hana Wirth-Nesher, Comparative American Studies 4.4 (December 2006), 471-5.
Other Information:
Annual Socrates Exchange Scholar to The University of Rome, 2003
Harvard University, Visiting Scholar in the History of American Civilization, 2004
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