Sastri, Dr Reena
Job Title: Early Career Fellow in American Literature
College: Exeter
Subject/ Period: American / 20th-21st century
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Research Interests:
Modern and contemporary poetry; the lyric 'I'; psychoanalysis and literature;
literature and science; American literature and culture
Teaching Areas:
Oxford: 19th and 20th c American literature
I have taught widely in modern and contemporary literature, including American
literature and culture, British and Irish modernism, and modern Irish poetry, and
have supervised PhDs on contemporary American poetry and fiction.
Recent Publications:
Books:
James Merrill: Knowing Innocence (Routledge, 2007)
Articles and chapters:
'Rita Dove's Poetic Expeditions'. Twentieth-Century Literature (forthcoming)
'Intimacy and agency in Lowell's Day by Day'. Contemporary Literature (Fall 2009)
'A Scattering of Salts: Merrill's Temporal Innocence'. Twentieth-Century Literature (2004)
Other Information:
Current research:
'Indelible Voice': Louise Glück and the Work of Lyric (book)
Visiting Research Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh (March-April 2010)
Recent and forthcoming presentations
'Between Modernism and the Lyric' (panel), Modernist Studies Association, Montréal, November 2009
'Myth, modernism and lyric in Loiuse Glück's Averno', The Idea of Influence in American Literature, March 2010
'Contemporary American poetry and the lyric "I"', BAAS, April 2010
'Intimacy and agency in late Lowell', American Literature Association, San Francisco, May 2010
'"A plank from the known to the unknown": Paul Muldoon and the ends of poetry', Twenty-first Century Literature: Mapping New Trends, St Andrews, September 2010
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