- Fall 2012 Courses:
- CSUB 101, Section 91: Roadrunner RUSH-A
- ENGL 272, Section 1: Analyzing and Writing Poetry
- ENGL 380, Section 1: Major American Authors to 1865
- ENGL 584, Sections 50 and 55: Modern American Literature
- Winter 2013 - Sabbatical Leave
- Spring 2013 - Sabbatical Leave
- Marit MacArthur
- Office: 203D Faculty Towers
- Office phone: 654-6503
- Email: mmacarthur@csub.edu
- Education:
- B.A. in English and creative writing, Northwestern University, 1996
- Ph.D. in English, University of California, Davis, 2005
- Areas of expertise & interest:
- Modern and contemporary American and English-language poetry and fiction; poetics; translation; Polish poetry
- Selected Publications:
- "A Labyrinth of Allusions." Rev. of Across the Land and the Water: Selected Poems 1964-2001. by W.G. Sebald. The Yale Review. Forthcoming January 2013.
- "Figures of the Guide and Tourist in Frost." Frost in Context. Ed. Mark Richardson. Cambridge University Press. Forthcoming 2012..
- "The Skinny on Schuyler's Line." Jacket2. June 30, 2012. http://jacket2.org/article/skinny-schuylers-line .
- ""Calypso," "Anna German," "I sit like Buddha, I have a Buddha belly," "[vacation]," "Warmed up yet?," "For Mice," "Calm Seas," "Pensum," "Five Short Treatises," " [in this kitchen]," "[about the smell].." (Translations from the Polish of eleven poems by Adam Wiedemann)VERSE(2012): 9-32.
- "One World? The Poetics of Passenger Flight and the Perception of the Global." PMLA.127:1 (March 2012): 264-282.
- “Pounding the Golden Treasury: The Exceptions of Hardy and Frost.” The Robert Frost Review, 2011.
- “Some Problems with Modern Polish Poetry in Translation.” Contemporary Poetry Review. Dec. 23, 2010. <http://www.cprw.com/some-problems-with-modern-polish-poetry-in-translation/>
- The American Landscape in the Poetry of Frost, Bishop and Ashbery: The House Abandoned. Palgrave Macmillan, August 2008.
- "'In a Room': Elizabeth Bishop in Europe, 1935-1937." Texas Studies in Literature & Language 50:4 (Winter 2008): 408-442.
- "Rhythms of Grief in The Poems of 1912-13." Poetry Criticism 92, December 2008. [Originally published in the Thomas Hardy Journal 20:1 (February 2004): 38-48.]
- "An Interview with John Ashbery." LIT 12 (Spring 2007): 177-202.
- "A Lyrical Intellect: An Interview with Kay Ryan." Poetry Flash (October 2005): 1, 16-22.
- "Alan Dugan," "Josephine Miles," "Howard Nemerov," and "Kay Ryan." The Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Poetry, ed. Jeffrey H. Gray, James McCorkel and Mary Balkun (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 2005).
- "Digging up the Cellar Hole: Old Home Week and 'The Generations of Men.'" The Robert Frost Review 13 (Fall 2004): 98-102.
- "Diving into the Unknown: A Love Like Death in D.H. Lawrence’s Women in Love." Like a Black and White Kaleidoscope Tossed at Random: Essays on D.H. Lawrence’s Women in Love, ed. Phillipe Romanski and Jean-Paul Richardie (Rouen: Publications de l’Université de Rouen, 2001).
- Selected Reviews
- “A Polish Poet You Should Know.” Rev. of Peregrinary by EugeniuszTkaczszyn-Dycki, trans. Bill Johnston. Dec. 21, 2010. Contemporary Poetry Review. < http://www.cprw.com/a-polish-poet-you-should-know/>
- The Collected Poems of Zbigniew Herbert, Alissa Valles. Poetry International, 2009.
- Kenneth Koch, The Collected Poems and The Long Poems. Contemporary Poetry Review , 2008.
- "Talking Points." The Notebooks of Robert Frost , ed. Robert Faggen. The Yale Review95.4 (October 2007): 141-153.
- "Left on the Shelf" (column reviewing contemporary poetry). The Bloomsbury Review , March/April 2008; March/April 2007.
- Elizabeth Bishop, Edgar Allan Poet & The Juke-Box. Uncollected Poems, Drafts and Fragments. Modern Language Studies, Summer 2006.
- Translations
“Chronicle” and “Open Sea” (translations of two poems by Wojciech Bonowicz). Poetry International, 2011.
"Calypso," "Anna German," "I sit like Buddha, I have a Buddha belly," "[vacation]," "Warmed up yet?," "For Mice," "Calm Seas," "Pensum," "Five Short Treatises," " [in this kitchen]," "[about the smell]" (translations of eleven poems by Adam Wiedemann). Forthcoming in Verse, 2011.
"Visions from a Different Bay" and "Deep Memory" (translations of two poems by Kacper Bartczak). World Literature Today, January 2008.
- "Here Come the Partisans," "The Soft Underbelly," "A Hard Day's Night," "Leaving the City," and "Generation Relay" (translations of five poems by Jerzy Jarniewicz). The American Poetry Review, November/December 2007.
- Courses Regularly Taught
- ENGL 205: Introduction to the Study of American Literature
- ENGL 381: Major American Authors, 1865 - 1900
- ENGL 382: Major American Authors, 1900 -The Present
- ENGL 383: American Literature Survey I, to 1865
- ENGL 384: American Literature Survey II, 1865 - The Present
- ENGL 386: Literature of the West
- ENGL 404: Creative Writing
- ENGL 476: Poetry
- ENGL 584: Modern American Literature
- ENGL 585: Contemporary American Literature
Dr. MacArthur with students from ENGL 386: Literature of the West, at Wind Wolves Preserve southwest of Bakersfield