Education
Ph.D., English (2005), University of Texas, Austin, TX
Dissertation: Ligatures of Time and Space: 1920s New York as a Construction Site for Modernist “American” Narrative Poetry.
Committee: Elizabeth Cullingford & Adam Zachary Newton (co-chairs), Thomas Cable, Kurt Heinzelman, Cesar Salgado, Katherine Hellerstein
Certificate: European Studies
M.A., Theology and Religious Studies (1996), Villanova University, Villanova, PA
Thesis: “A Paradigm for Survival: An Historical Analysis of the Czech Catholic Church and Socialist Society 1945-198.”
M.F.A., Poetry Creative Writing (1992), University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN
Thesis Awarded: The William Mitchell Prize for Best Creative Thesis
Concurrent M.A. in English with Distinguished Pass
B.A., English Honors & Psychology, Summa Cum Laude (1990), University of Texas at Austin
Certificate: Liberal Arts Honors Interdisciplinary Program
Scholarship in Progress:
Translated Time and Space: The multivoiced Lyric in 1920s New York, which identifies the modernist, multi-voiced, or social lyric poem, characterized by the chronotope of translated time-space. The study reads the semiotics of the physical and cultural landscape of 1920s New York as an assimilationist text, and then turns to five exemplary poets whose lyric poems fight against assimilation and for a multi-cultural national narrative. The poets, who are comprised of immigrants, migrants and the poor, subvert the post-romantic lyric by depicting subjects who argue for recognition not as individuals, but as American individuals.
Publications: Poetry
Immigrant (63 pages), Black Lawrence Press (January 2010)
Finalist, Four Way Books poetry Competition, 2008, Finalist, White Pines Press National Competition, 2009, Finalist, Bright Hill Press competition, 2006, Finalist: Washington Publishing House 2006
Of All the Things that Don’t Exist, I Love You Best (27 pages, press run 500), Finishing Line Press, November, 2008.
Finalist, Emerging Women’s Voices chapbook competition, 2007.
Book-Length Poetry Translation
May by Karel Hynek Macha, from the Czech, (121 pages, press run 1,500), Twisted Spoon Press (2005 & 2010)
Bela-Wenda Poems from Congo-Zaire, from the French, by Mutombo Nkulu-N’Sengha, Host Publications, ( 2011).
Bouquet by Karel Jaromir Erben, from the Czech. Twisted Spoon Press (under contract, forthcoming 2012).
Refereed Articles
"Rivers, Roads and Conveyor Belts: The making of America(n poetry)." Ostrava Journal of English Philology. 3.2 (2011). 39-51.
“Translation and Transgression” Poet Lore, spring 2009 Second Century of New Writing: 110-Year Anniversary Edition. 106-111.
“Relations Among the Czech State, the Vatican and the Catholic Church.” Religion in EasternEurope (April 1995).
Selected Popular Press Book Reviews
“The Oddest Knock. A Review of Kay Ryan’s Niagara Falls,” Post No Ills, Feb. 8, 2009. http://www.postnoills.com/main/?p=109
“Steve Gehrke’s The Pyramids of Malpighi” in Borderlands. Spring 2005.
"Toyin Falola's A Mouth Sweeter Than Salt. An African Memoir," The Texas Observer, Aug., 2004.
"Alice Walker's Absolute Faith in the Goodness of the Earth," The Austin American-Statesman, April 20, 2003.
"Calyx Press, A Fierce Brightness. Twenty-five Years of Women's Writing," The Austin American-Statesman, March 2, 2003.
"Gerald Stern, American Sonnets,"The Austin American-Statesman, June 2, 2002.
"Derek Walcott," The Austin American-Statesman, Nov. 7, 2001.
"Yusef Komunyakaa,"The Austin American-Statesman, Oct. 23, 2001.
"Charles Simic, Night Picnic," The Austin American-Statesman, Oct. 7, 2001.
"Seamus Heaney, Electric Lights," The Austin American-Statesman, April 2001.
"C. K. Williams, Repair," Borderlands. Texas Poetry Review 15 (Fall/Winter 2000).
Conference Paper Presentations
"The Poet Magician: Writing out of Single Parenting" at the AWP National Conference in Boston, March 2013.
"Sentenced to Death: Translating Resistance" at the AWP National Conference in Boston, March 2013.
"The Internationalization of the MFA Program," at the AWP National Conference in Chicago, February 2012.
“The American Ikh,” Modern Language Association Annual Convention in Chicago: “Literature of the US in languages other than English,” Dec. 2007.
“Brooklyn Bridge and the Labyrinthe Mouths of History,” Modern Language Association Annual Convention in Chicago: “Cities and Public Spaces. Urban Ways of Being,” Dec. 2007.
“The Post-Lyric in Langston Hughes’s The Weary Blues,” Association of American Literature Conference, Boston, MA. May 2007.
"Surveying the Boundaries of a Literary World." Panel: “Poetry, what is lost in translation.” The American Comparative Literature Association Conference, Princeton, NJ, March 2006.
“Iambic Mountains, Dactylic Lakes: The Metering of the Czech Landscape in Karel Hynek Macha’s May,” Symposium on Poetic Form, San Diego, CA, Sept, 2005.
"Off-Beat in the Golden Land," Modern Language Association Annual Convention:“350 Years of Jewish Writing in America.” Philadelphia, PA, Dec. 2004.
"Disturbing Figures and Disruptive Behavior in Moishe-Leyb Halpern's In New York (a long Yiddish poem)," National Conference of the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association, San Antonio, TX, April 2004.
"1920s New York as a Construction Site for 'American' Literature," The Annual Meeting of the Southern Comparative Literature Association, Austin, TX, September 19, 2003.
“The Role of Sefardic Women in Maintaining Crypto-Judaism in Portugal 1492-1600,” The Southwest Conference Early Renaissance Studies, College Station, Texas 2001.
“Martyrdom as the Seed of Unity and the Seed of Division. The Augustinian Concept of Church Examined in Light of Jan Hus,” The International Conference for Patristics and Medieval Studies, Villanova University, Villanova, PA, 1997.
“Grace and the Czech Reformation,” The International Conference for Patristics and Medieval Studies, Villanova University, Villanova, PA, 1996.
Teaching
2010-present Director & Senior Lecturer Shaindy Rudoff Graduate Creative Writing Program, The Department of English Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel.
Courses: Graduate poetry workshop, poetic forms and genres, multi-genre undergraduate creative writing, Survey in Modern American Literature
2005-2010 Assistant Professor, Department of Literature, The American University, Washington, DC
Courses: Literary Translation, The Graduate Seminar in Genre: Poetry, Contemporary World Poetry, The Experience of Poetry, Third World Literature, Writers in Print/in Person, Interpreting Literature, Interdisciplinary Approaches to Literature
2000-2005 Assistant Instructor, Department of English, The University of Texas at Austin
Courses: Poesis, the Making of Literature, Creative Writing: Poetry, The Writing Process,
Rhetoric and Composition for Non-Native Speakers
Distance & Continuing Education Courses: Modern American Poetry, World Literature
1996-1997 Adjunct Instructor of Humanities, Villanova University, Villanova, PA
Courses: The History of Western Thought: Ancient, Medieval and Renaissance Thought. Focus on the history of love.
The History of Western Thought: Modern Thought. Focus on Utopian and Socialist societies.
1996-1997 Adjunct Instructor of English, Department of English, St. Joseph University, Philadelphia, PA
Courses: Modern British and American poetry and essay, Survey of Literature in the English Language from Milton through Faulkner.
Ph.D., English (2005), University of Texas, Austin, TX
Dissertation: Ligatures of Time and Space: 1920s New York as a Construction Site for Modernist “American” Narrative Poetry.
Committee: Elizabeth Cullingford & Adam Zachary Newton (co-chairs), Thomas Cable, Kurt Heinzelman, Cesar Salgado, Katherine Hellerstein
Certificate: European Studies
M.A., Theology and Religious Studies (1996), Villanova University, Villanova, PA
Thesis: “A Paradigm for Survival: An Historical Analysis of the Czech Catholic Church and Socialist Society 1945-198.”
M.F.A., Poetry Creative Writing (1992), University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN
Thesis Awarded: The William Mitchell Prize for Best Creative Thesis
Concurrent M.A. in English with Distinguished Pass
B.A., English Honors & Psychology, Summa Cum Laude (1990), University of Texas at Austin
Certificate: Liberal Arts Honors Interdisciplinary Program
Scholarship in Progress:
Translated Time and Space: The multivoiced Lyric in 1920s New York, which identifies the modernist, multi-voiced, or social lyric poem, characterized by the chronotope of translated time-space. The study reads the semiotics of the physical and cultural landscape of 1920s New York as an assimilationist text, and then turns to five exemplary poets whose lyric poems fight against assimilation and for a multi-cultural national narrative. The poets, who are comprised of immigrants, migrants and the poor, subvert the post-romantic lyric by depicting subjects who argue for recognition not as individuals, but as American individuals.
Publications: Poetry
Immigrant (63 pages), Black Lawrence Press (January 2010)
Finalist, Four Way Books poetry Competition, 2008, Finalist, White Pines Press National Competition, 2009, Finalist, Bright Hill Press competition, 2006, Finalist: Washington Publishing House 2006
Of All the Things that Don’t Exist, I Love You Best (27 pages, press run 500), Finishing Line Press, November, 2008.
Finalist, Emerging Women’s Voices chapbook competition, 2007.
Book-Length Poetry Translation
May by Karel Hynek Macha, from the Czech, (121 pages, press run 1,500), Twisted Spoon Press (2005 & 2010)
Bela-Wenda Poems from Congo-Zaire, from the French, by Mutombo Nkulu-N’Sengha, Host Publications, ( 2011).
Bouquet by Karel Jaromir Erben, from the Czech. Twisted Spoon Press (under contract, forthcoming 2012).
Refereed Articles
"Rivers, Roads and Conveyor Belts: The making of America(n poetry)." Ostrava Journal of English Philology. 3.2 (2011). 39-51.
“Translation and Transgression” Poet Lore, spring 2009 Second Century of New Writing: 110-Year Anniversary Edition. 106-111.
“Relations Among the Czech State, the Vatican and the Catholic Church.” Religion in EasternEurope (April 1995).
Selected Popular Press Book Reviews
“The Oddest Knock. A Review of Kay Ryan’s Niagara Falls,” Post No Ills, Feb. 8, 2009. http://www.postnoills.com/main/?p=109
“Steve Gehrke’s The Pyramids of Malpighi” in Borderlands. Spring 2005.
"Toyin Falola's A Mouth Sweeter Than Salt. An African Memoir," The Texas Observer, Aug., 2004.
"Alice Walker's Absolute Faith in the Goodness of the Earth," The Austin American-Statesman, April 20, 2003.
"Calyx Press, A Fierce Brightness. Twenty-five Years of Women's Writing," The Austin American-Statesman, March 2, 2003.
"Gerald Stern, American Sonnets,"The Austin American-Statesman, June 2, 2002.
"Derek Walcott," The Austin American-Statesman, Nov. 7, 2001.
"Yusef Komunyakaa,"The Austin American-Statesman, Oct. 23, 2001.
"Charles Simic, Night Picnic," The Austin American-Statesman, Oct. 7, 2001.
"Seamus Heaney, Electric Lights," The Austin American-Statesman, April 2001.
"C. K. Williams, Repair," Borderlands. Texas Poetry Review 15 (Fall/Winter 2000).
Conference Paper Presentations
"The Poet Magician: Writing out of Single Parenting" at the AWP National Conference in Boston, March 2013.
"Sentenced to Death: Translating Resistance" at the AWP National Conference in Boston, March 2013.
"The Internationalization of the MFA Program," at the AWP National Conference in Chicago, February 2012.
“The American Ikh,” Modern Language Association Annual Convention in Chicago: “Literature of the US in languages other than English,” Dec. 2007.
“Brooklyn Bridge and the Labyrinthe Mouths of History,” Modern Language Association Annual Convention in Chicago: “Cities and Public Spaces. Urban Ways of Being,” Dec. 2007.
“The Post-Lyric in Langston Hughes’s The Weary Blues,” Association of American Literature Conference, Boston, MA. May 2007.
"Surveying the Boundaries of a Literary World." Panel: “Poetry, what is lost in translation.” The American Comparative Literature Association Conference, Princeton, NJ, March 2006.
“Iambic Mountains, Dactylic Lakes: The Metering of the Czech Landscape in Karel Hynek Macha’s May,” Symposium on Poetic Form, San Diego, CA, Sept, 2005.
"Off-Beat in the Golden Land," Modern Language Association Annual Convention:“350 Years of Jewish Writing in America.” Philadelphia, PA, Dec. 2004.
"Disturbing Figures and Disruptive Behavior in Moishe-Leyb Halpern's In New York (a long Yiddish poem)," National Conference of the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association, San Antonio, TX, April 2004.
"1920s New York as a Construction Site for 'American' Literature," The Annual Meeting of the Southern Comparative Literature Association, Austin, TX, September 19, 2003.
“The Role of Sefardic Women in Maintaining Crypto-Judaism in Portugal 1492-1600,” The Southwest Conference Early Renaissance Studies, College Station, Texas 2001.
“Martyrdom as the Seed of Unity and the Seed of Division. The Augustinian Concept of Church Examined in Light of Jan Hus,” The International Conference for Patristics and Medieval Studies, Villanova University, Villanova, PA, 1997.
“Grace and the Czech Reformation,” The International Conference for Patristics and Medieval Studies, Villanova University, Villanova, PA, 1996.
Teaching
2010-present Director & Senior Lecturer Shaindy Rudoff Graduate Creative Writing Program, The Department of English Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel.
Courses: Graduate poetry workshop, poetic forms and genres, multi-genre undergraduate creative writing, Survey in Modern American Literature
2005-2010 Assistant Professor, Department of Literature, The American University, Washington, DC
Courses: Literary Translation, The Graduate Seminar in Genre: Poetry, Contemporary World Poetry, The Experience of Poetry, Third World Literature, Writers in Print/in Person, Interpreting Literature, Interdisciplinary Approaches to Literature
2000-2005 Assistant Instructor, Department of English, The University of Texas at Austin
Courses: Poesis, the Making of Literature, Creative Writing: Poetry, The Writing Process,
Rhetoric and Composition for Non-Native Speakers
Distance & Continuing Education Courses: Modern American Poetry, World Literature
1996-1997 Adjunct Instructor of Humanities, Villanova University, Villanova, PA
Courses: The History of Western Thought: Ancient, Medieval and Renaissance Thought. Focus on the history of love.
The History of Western Thought: Modern Thought. Focus on Utopian and Socialist societies.
1996-1997 Adjunct Instructor of English, Department of English, St. Joseph University, Philadelphia, PA
Courses: Modern British and American poetry and essay, Survey of Literature in the English Language from Milton through Faulkner.
