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Book Project
Rachel's current book project, titled Poetry and the Press
in Wartime (1936-1945), argues
that print journalism offered an
unexpected model for wartime poetry and poetics during
the tumultuous period
spanning from the Spanish Civil War through World War II.
Upcoming Conference Presentations
“Tremendously Occupied: Gertrude Stein in Wartime,” Gertrude
Stein Society Panel, American Literary Association
Annual Meeting,
Boston, MA, May 28,
2011.
“’Luxurious Riot’: Eliot and Whitman via Laforgue,” T.S.
Eliot Society Annual Meeting, Paris III, Paris,
France, July 18, 2011.
“Poetry after 9/11: Repetition and Response from Auden to Zapruder,” Modernist Studies Association Annual Meeting, Buffalo, NY, October 9, 2011.
“Re-Examining Wallace Stevens in a Time of War,”
Twenty-First-Century
Stevens: Modernism and Its Aftermath, Wallace Stevens Society Session,
Modern Language
Association annual meeting, January 2012.
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