Maggie Greaves

Associate Professor

B.A., Agnes Scott College
Ph.D., Emory University 

Office: Palamountain 309
Phone: (518) 580-5191
Email: mgreaves@skidmore.edu

Research Interests:

• Poetry and poetics
• Cultural histories of science
• History of emotion
• Poetry and popular culture
• Gender studies

Courses Taught:

• EN 105: Writing Outer Space
• EN 110: Introduction to Literary Studies
• EN 213: Poetry
• EN 229: Literature and the Cosmos
• EN 282: Introduction to Poetry Writing
• EN 313: Modern Poetry
• EN 314: Contemporary Poetry
• EN 363: Confessional Poetry

Selected Publications:

• Lyric Poetry and Space Exploration from Einstein to the Present (forthcoming from Oxford University Press, 2023)
• “‘Vast and Unreadable’: Tracy K. Smith, Astronomy, and Lyric Opacity in Contemporary Poetry.” Contemporary Literature 61.1 (Spring 2020): 1-31.
• “Nostalgic Forms: Agha Shahid Ali, Space Age Poetry, and the Cold War Planet.” College Literature 48.3 (Summer 2021): 341-373.
• “Punishing the Lyric: Seamus Heaney and the Poetics of a Communal Europe.” Eire/Ireland 51.3-4 (Fall/Winter 2016): 217-43.
• “The Spanish Copla in T.S. Eliot’s ‘Landscapes’.” Journal of Modern Literature 37.4 (Summer 2014): 130-142.
• “Seamus Heaney and Eastern European Poetry.” In Seamus Heaneyin Context. Ed. Geraldine Higgins. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, forthcoming.