Marit MacArthur,

Assistant Professor of English

California State University Bakersfield

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Fall 2009

ENGL 383: American Literature Survey I

ENGL 476: Poetry

California Writers Series

Begun in 2006, the California Writers Series brings writers to the CSUB campus each academic year, to give a reading in the beautiful Dezember Room in the Walter Stiern Library. CWS writers usually live in or have roots in California. Sponsored by the English Honors Society, Sigma Tau Delta, the English Department, and various student groups, the CWS readings are free and open to the public. After the readings, the audience has a chance to ask the author questions and engage in discussion of the creative process. Authors then sign books, which are sold by the independent bookstore, Russo’s Books.

Upcoming readings:

Frank Bidart (October 20, 2009)

 

Past readings:

Kay Ryan (January 11, 2006)

Greg Chandler (April 5, 2006)

Wanda Coleman (October 19, 2006)

Joe Wenderoth (January 17, 2007)

Susana Chavez-Silverman (February 15, 2007)

Pam Houston (April 11, 2007)

Ngugi wa Thiong'o (September 28, 2007)

Brian Turner (January 16, 2008)

James Sepsey and Charles Hood (October 1, 2008)

Juliana Spahr (January 27, 2009)

Aimee Phan (April 8, 2009)

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Marit MacArthur

Office: 203B 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:

20th century American and English-language poetry and fiction; poetics; landscape and cultural history; translation; Polish poetry

Selected Publications

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, Winter 2008.

 

"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.]

 

"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.

 

"Visions from a Different Bay" and "Deep Memory" (translations of two poems by Kacper Bartczak). World Literature Today, January 2008.

 

"An Interview with John Ashbery." LIT 12 (Spring 2007): 177-202.

 

"Elizabeth Bishop as Tour Guide to Brazil." The Polish Journal of American Studies, Fall 2006.

 

"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).

 

"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).

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