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Mutlu Blasing

Professor of English; Advisor, Literatures Honors Program

Office: 70 Brown St., Rm. 416
Phone: (401) 863-3744

Courses '09-'10
  Sem I:
  •   ENGL1410 American Poetry I: Puritans through the 19th Century -- CRN 14203
  •   ENGL1991 Senior Honors Thesis in Literatures and Cultures in English -- CRN 11383
  •   ENGL1992 Senior Honors Thesis in Literatures and Cultures in English -- CRN 11386
  •   ENGL2760A American Modernist Poetry and Poetics -- CRN 14958
  Sem II:
  •   ENGL 1761P-S01: Yeats, Pound, Eliot -- CRN 24135
  •   ENGL1992 Senior Honors Thesis in Literatures and Cultures in English -- CRN 20973

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Degrees
Ph.D. Brown University, 1974
B.A. College of William and Mary, 1969

Research Interests
American poetry from the seventeenth century to the present, poetic theory, and translation.

Professional Accomplishments
Blasing is the author of The Art of Life: Studies in American Autobiographical Literature (University of Texas Press, 1977),   American Poetry: The Rhetoric of Its Forms (Yale University Press, 1987), Politics and Form in Postmodern Poetry: O'Hara, Bishop, Ashbery, and Merrill   (Cambridge University Press, 1995), and Lyric Poetry: The Pain and the Pleasure of Words (Princeton University Press, 2007).   She has published articles on Emerson, Whitman, James, Eliot, Pound, O'Hara, Bishop, Merrill, and others.   She is the translator, with Randy Blasing, of Nazim Hikmet's work into English, and has published eight volumes of translations.   The latest are Nazim Hikmet: Human Landscapes from My Country (Persea, 2002) and Poems of Nazim Hikmet (Persea, 2002).