Books

Becoming Marianne Moore: The Early Poems 1907-1924. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. 504pp.

Reviewed:

“Flaring Marianne Moore: A Polemical Edition.” TEXT: An Interdisciplinary Annual of Textual Studies (2004; appeared 2006): 217-28.

Modernism/Modernity 11, no. 4 (November 2004): 843-44.

American Literature 76, no. 2 (June 2004): 400-402.

“The Responsibilities of Inclusion and Omission: Editing Marianne Moore's Poetry.” Virginia Quarterly Review: A National Journal of Literature and Discussion , 80, no. 1 (Winter 2004): 232-48.

The New Criterion 22, no. 6 (February 2004): <http://www.newcriterion.com/archive/22/feb04/moore.htm>

Times Literary Supplement ( London ), 23 January 2004, 3-4. (Cover story)

 

The Web of Friendship: Marianne Moore and Wallace Stevens. Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 1995. 252pp.

Reviewed:

• American Literature 69, no.1 (1997): 240.
• South Atlantic Review 62, no. 1 (Winter 1997): 134-36.
• Times Literary Supplement ( London ), 30 August 1996, 28.
• Wallace Stevens Journal 19, no. 2 (Fall 1995): 122-25.

 

Edited Volumes

Critics and Poets on Marianne Moore: A Right Good Salvo of Barks. Edited by Linda Leavell, Cristanne Miller, and Robin Schulze. Lewisburg , PA : Bucknell University Press, 2005.

Period editor, 1915-1945. The Pearson Library of American Literature: A Custom Anthology , ed. Bryant, McLendon, Miller, Schulze, and Shields. Boston : Pearson Custom Publishing, 2003.

Selected 520 modernist works (poems, plays, short stories, short novels) by 58 different authors; supplied head notes for 42 of the figures and annotations for 375 works. First print-on-demand anthology to market.

 

Articles

• “How Not to Edit: The Case of Marianne Moore.” Forthcoming, Textual Cultures: Texts, Contexts, Interpretation 2, no.1 (Spring 2007). Special issue edited by Martha Nell Smith, “Editing and Diversity.”
• “Prospects for the Study of Marianne Moore.” In Prospects for the Study of American Literature II , edited by Richard Kopley and Barbara Cantalupo. Forthcoming, New York : New York University Press, 2007.
• “‘Injudicious Gardening': Marianne Moore, Gender, and the Hazards of Domestication.” In Critics and Poets on Marianne Moore: A Right Good Salvo of Barks , edited by Linda Leavell, Cristanne Miller, and Robin Schulze, 74-89. Lewisburg , PA : Bucknell University Press, 2005.
• “Preface.” Co-authored with Linda Leavell and Cristanne Miller. In Critics and Poets on Marianne Moore: A Right Good Salvo of Barks , edited by Linda Leavell, Cristanne Miller, and Robin Schulze, 7-21. Lewisburg , PA : Bucknell University Press, 2005.
• “Women's Writing in America .” Co-authored with Cristanne Miller. The Pearson Library of American Literature: A Custom Anthology , ed. John Bryant, Jackie McLendon, Cristanne Miller, Robin Schulze, and David Shields. Boston , MA : Pearson Custom Publishing, 2003. Piece added in 2004, 43 pp.
• “Harriet Monroe's Pioneer Modernism: Nature, National Identity, and Poetry, a Magazine of Verse .” Legacy : A Journal of American Women Writers 21, no. 1 (2004): 50-67.
• “Gallery: Robin G. Schulze on ‘Prize Plants.'” Environmental History 8 (July 2003): 476-79.
• “Literary Modernisms: Writing in America , 1914-1945.” The Pearson Library of American Literature: A Custom Anthology , ed. Bryant, McLendon, Miller, Schulze, and Shields. Boston : Pearson Custom Publishing, 2003. 26pp.
• “Textual Darwinism: Marianne Moore, the Text of Evolution, and the Evolving Text.” TEXT: An Interdisciplinary Annual of Textual Studies 11 (1998): 270-305. [appeared 1999]
• “Marianne Moore's ‘Imperious Ox, Imperial Peach' and the Poetry of the Natural World.” Twentieth Century Literature 44, no. 1 (Spring 1998): 1-33.
• “The One and the Many: Reading the Cornell Yeats.” TEXT: An Interdisciplinary Annual of Textual Studies 10 (1997): 323-37.
• “‘The Frigate Pelican''s Progress: Marianne Moore's Multiple Versions and Modernist Practice.” In Gendered Modernisms: American Women Poets and Their Readers , edited by Margaret Dickie and Thomas J. Travisano, 117-39. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996.
• “Teaching Wallace Stevens and Marianne Moore: The Search for an Open Mind.” In Teaching Wallace Stevens: Practical Essays , edited by John N. Serio and B. J. Leggett, 179-91. Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, 1994.
• “The Return to Emerson's Classroom.” Review 16 (1994): 281-87.
• “Design in Motion: Words, Music, and the Search for Coherence in the Works of Virginia Woolf and Arnold Schoenberg.” Studies in the Literary Imagination 25, no. 2 (Fall 1992): 5-22.
• “The Trope of the Police Force in T. S. Eliot's Cambridge Prologue.” Yeats Eliot Review 11, no. 1 (1991): 19-23.

 

Recent Invited Talks

• “The Degenerate Muse: Nature, Modernist Poetry, and the Problem of Cultural Hygiene.” Oregon State University Center for the Humanities, April 10, 2006.
• “'Beyond the Yawp': Nature, Natural History, and the Origins of Modernist Poetry.” Oregon State University Center for the Humanities, October 24, 2005.
• “The Virtual World and Its Discontents: Modernist American Poetry in the Early Twentieth Century” University of Michigan , Lecture Series in Modernist Literature, November 11, 2004.
• “The Virtual World and Its Discontents: Modernist American Poetry in the Early Twentieth Century” SUNY Buffalo , Gray Poetry Chair Lecture, September 29, 2004.
• “Rethinking Rationales for Literary Study: ‘All Right, Then, I'll Go to Hell!'” University of Michigan Colloquium “How to Do Things with English,” March 8, 2002.
• “Beyond the Yawp: The Nature of Modernist Poetry,” University of Kansas Hall Center Seminar in Nature and Culture, October 5, 2001. Interdisciplinary faculty/graduate student seminar directed by Professor Donald Worster.

 

Recent Selected Presentations

• October 2006. “Editing and the Archive: Constructing the Text of Marianne Moore's Poems.” Modernist Studies Assoc., Tulsa , OK
• December 2005. “Reading Editions: Marianne Moore and Why Editing Matters.”
• Modern Language Assoc., Washington, D. C.
• December 2005. Arranged and chaired session for the Wallace Stevens Society: “Wallace Stevens and Marianne Moore.” Modern Language Assoc., Washington, D. C.
• November 2005. “Ezra Pound and the Poetry of Cultural Hygiene.” Modernist Studies Assoc., Chicago , IL
• March 2005. “IPod/IReader: Reflections on Collecting and the Future of Textuality.” Society for Textual Scholarship, New York , NY . Plenary address.
• December 2004. Arranged and chaired a panel entitled “Modern and Postmodern Textualities.” Modern Language Assoc., Philadelphia , PA
• May 2004. “The Art of Information: Lessons Learned in Publishing a New Edition of Marianne Moore's Poems.” American Literature Assoc., San Francisco , CA
• [Special session on editing Moore ]
• February 2004. “‘The Past Is the Present': Recovering Marianne Moore's Early Poems.” Twentieth Century Literature Conference, Louisville , KY.
• September 2003. “‘Injudicious Gardening': Marianne Moore, Gender, and the Hazards of Domestication.” Society for the Study of American Women Writers. San Antonio , TX
• March 2003. “Marianne Moore and the Hazards of Domestication.” “A Right Good Salvo of Barks”: International Conference on Marianne Moore, Penn State University , University Park , PA
• March 2003. “The Art of Information: Lessons Learned in Publishing a New Edition of Marianne Moore's Poems.” Society for Textual Scholarship, New York , NY
• November 2002. “Harriet Monroe's Pioneer Modernism.” Modernist Studies Assoc., Madison , WI
• April 2001. "Feminist Criticism and Editorial Theory: Pretty in Pink.” Society for Textual Scholarship, CUNY, New York , NY
• December 2000. “Coming of Age in Silicon Valley: E-Books and the Business of Reading .” Modern Language Assoc., Washington , DC
• December 2000. “Marianne Moore and the Archive of Modernism.” Modern Language Assoc., Washington , DC
• November 2000. “Pretty in Pink: Gender and the Editing of Marianne Moore's Poems.” South Atlantic Modern Language Assoc., Birmingham , AL
• October 2000. “Ezra Pound, W. H. Hudson, and the Nature of Modernism.” Modernist Studies Assoc., Philadelphia , PA
• May 2000. “‘Injudicious Gardening': Marianne Moore and the Gender of Nature Poetry.” American Literature Assoc., Long Beach , CA

 

Honors, Grants, and Awards

• Oregon State University Visiting Research Fellowship 2005-2006[ “Beyond the Yawp: Nature, Natural History and the Origins of Modernist American Poetry ]
• National Humanities Center Fellowship 2005-2006 (declined) [ “Beyond the Yawp: Nature, Natural History and the Origins of Modernist American Poetry ]
• American Philosophical Society Franklin Research Grant 2005-2006 [ “Beyond the Yawp: Nature, Natural History and the Origins of Modernist American Poetry ]
• Class of 1933 Prize for Distinction in the Humanities 2005
• Penn State Institute for the Arts and Humanistic Studies Term Fellowship 2000[2 year research support fellowship for travel to scholarly collections for “ Beyond the Yawp”: Nature, Natural History, and the Origins of Modernist American Poetry ]
• George W. Atherton Award for Excellence in 1998 Undergraduate Teaching
• Penn State Institute for the Arts and Humanistic Studies Research Grant 1997 [Lump sum grant for Becoming Marianne Moore ]
• Penn State RGSO Faculty Research Grant 1996
• University of Kansas General Research Fund Grant, 1993 [Funding for completion of project entitled The Web of Friendship: Marianne Moore and Wallace Stevens ]
• Hall Center Faculty Travel Grant, University of Kansas 1992 [Funding for project entitled The Web of Friendship: Marianne Moore and Wallace Stevens ]

 

Links to Selected Articles

“Harriet Monroe's Pioneer Modernism: Nature, National Identity, and Poetry, a Magazine of Verse .” Legacy : A Journal of American Women Writers 21, no. 1 (2004): 50-67.

http://muse.jhu.edu.ezaccess.libraries.psu.edu/journals/legacy/v021/21.1schulze.html

“Gallery: Robin G. Schulze on ‘Prize Plants.'” Environmental History 8 (July 2003): 476-79.

http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/eh/8.3/schulze.html

 

Course Descriptions

English 232 “American Literature Since 1865”

This course will be a wide-ranging chronological survey of American literature of the late nineteenth and twentieth century. We will study works by James, Howells, Wharton, Crane, Cather, Frost, Pound, Eliot, Moore, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Faulkner, Hurston, and Steinbeck. Throughout this class, we will consider closely how these author construct the idea of America as a nation and how they envision the role of the individual in an increasingly diverse and complex society. We will also pay attention to the historical context surrounding these works and attempt to understand them, in part, as responses to particular historical events. Course requirements will include frequent quizzes, four essays, a major revision project, and a final exam.

English 263, “Introduction to Poetry”

This course will be a lively introduction to the genre of poetry specifically designed for those who either love poetry and want to know more about how it works, or fear poetry and want to understand why they should love it. Students will learn the intricacies of poetic form and become fluent in the terminology that poets use to discuss their work. Primarily, however, the work of this course will consist of reading and interpreting a wide range of wonderful poems. Requirements will include a number of short assignments, a midterm, a final, and three papers.

English 403, “Poetry of the Great War”

This course will examine a wide range of verse, both British and American, penned in response to the carnage and upheaval of the First World War. Studying the works of both popular and avant-garde artists, combatants and non-combatants, men and women, we will explore how poets of the early Twentieth Century attempted to confront and make artistic matter of the mass violence they faced. Throughout the course we will consider what sorts of images or forms, if any, are common to this verse and question where propaganda ends and poetry begins. We will also explore how the categories of class, gender, nationality, and proximity to the conflict affect the notions of war that these poets bring to their work. The poets we will study will include Owen, Sassoon, Graves, Brooke, Pound, H. D., Eliot, Moore , Stevens, and cummings.

English 401, “Modernist American Pastoral”

Throughout this course, we will investigate a number of questions about the uses that American modernist writers make of the natural world. Students will learn a variety of definitions of the literary genre of the “pastoral--“a genre that, by convention, depicts a return to a less urbanized, more “natural” state of existence--and consider how those definitions apply, or not, to American modernist writings. Authors will include Mark Twain, Kate Chopin, Willa Cather, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Mary Austin, and John Steinbeck. Requirements include 4 papers. and numerous short assignments.

English 437, “Poet in America ”

 

The poem of the mind in the act of finding

What will suffice. It has not always had

To find: the scene was set; it repeated what

Was in the script.

Then the theatre was changed

To something else. Its past was a souvenir.

It has to be living, to learn the speech of the place.

It has to face the men of the time and to meet

The women of the time. It has to think about war

And it has to find what will suffice. It has

To construct a new stage.

---- from Wallace Stevens, “Of Modern Poetry”

This class will consist of an intensive survey of the varied development of American poetry in the twentieth century. As the above lines from Wallace Stevens's poem, “Of Modern Poetry,” suggest, the literary period we will study in this course was marked by profound, and often disorienting, changes in the very idea of what poetry should be and do. The poets we will read each, in his or her own way, set out to remake verse to suit a complex new world in which traditional ideas of order were under siege--a modern world filled with the excitement of new scientific discoveries, the challenge of new ideas, the din of new machines, and the appalling new phenomenon of bloody World War. As Wallace Stevens puts it, “the theatre was changed/ To something else,” and poets responded, attempting to find what would “suffice.” We will study the works of Frost, Pound, Eliot, Stevens, Moore, Williams, H. D., Bishop, Lowell, and Plath. Course requirements will include three papers, a midterm, and a final exam.

English 589, “Poets in Conversation: Pound, Eliot, Moore, Stevens”

Throughout this course we will examine the work of four major modernist poets in the context of two significant literary conversations--Ezra Pound's dialogue with his friend and protégé T. S. Eliot, and Marianne Moore's conversation with her friend and fellow-poet Wallace Stevens. Focusing on key moments in each pair's give and take, this seminar will explore how these poets shaped each other's work and how their interactions altered the development of modernist verse in America and abroad. The poetic conversations between Pound and Eliot and Moore and Stevens raise difficult questions about modernist practice and literary influence that I hope will prove fruitful ground for study. How does an image of modernist practice as collaborative enterprise, rather than solitary struggle, shape our vision of literary modernism? How, for example, does Ezra Pound's heavy editorial hand on T.S. Eliot's fragmentary opus, The Waste Land , complicate our reading of one of modernisms best-known poems? To answer such questions, we will need to consider not only the content, but the context--historical, political, biographical, bibliographical--of such poetic exchanges. I frankly admit that such an agenda seems ambitious--but, in the interest of granting a sense of history and humanity to the study of poetry, I think it is worth the effort. Requirements include a term-length project and several short assignments.

English 574, "American Modernism, American Primitivism"

While most white Americans of the Progressive Era reveled in the notion of the advanced state of American scientific culture, many also feared that the country's citizens were becoming too civilized for their own good. Throughout the early modernist period, many prominent Americans, trust-busting President Theodore Roosevelt among them, sounded a call for a return to savage virtues. American men and women needed to recover something of their instinctual, primal selves in order to maintain the nation's strength. The paradoxical invocation for white Americans to recover their collective evolutionary past so that they might better succeed in the civilized future became one of the defining discourses of the modernist period. Throughout this class, we will read works by a number of modernist American authors by way of investigating how they made use of primitive materials and how they deployed a variety of constructions of the primitive to different ends. Authors will include Sherwood Anderson, Sinclair Lewis, Vachel Lindsay, Willa Cather, Mary Austin, Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, and Zora Neale Hurston. Course requirements will include a 15-20 page seminar paper, a 20-minute polished presentation of that paper, and a number of short assignments related to current critical articles that we will address throughout the term.

English 574, “American Women Writers: Modernism and the ‘New Woman'”

As many critics have noted, the Progressive Era in America marked a period of dramatic change for American women. Throughout the early twentieth century, middle class women in record numbers expanded their range of influence beyond hearth and home and gave their energies to social, political, and economic reform causes. Their activities sparked a lively national debate about female identity, responsibility, and potential that permeated American life during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Throughout this course, we will read works by a number of American modernist women writers and consider how such works responded to a variety of discourses--political, scientific, and popular--about the "New Woman." Authors will include Chopin, Wharton, Cather, Austin, Fauset, Moore, Millay, and Wylie. We will also read secondary works on the subject of "new womanhood" from a variety of disciplines.

The goal of this class will be for each student to craft a seminar paper of publishable length and quality and present that paper to the class. I will work with each student to select a viable topic early in the term and I will expect to see stages of the work in progress, at designated required intervals, throughout the semester. The spirit of this class will be that of a research seminar.