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Skidmore College
English Department
Diggory

Terence Diggory

Professor

B.A., Yale University
D.Phil., Oxford University

Office: Palamountain 319
Phone: (518) 580-5163
Email: tdiggory@skidmore.edu

Teaching and Research Interests:

  • Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Painting
  • Poetry by Women
  • Modern Drama
  • Darwinism in Literature
  • Literary Theory

Courses taught:

  • SSP 100: Human Dilemmas
  • EN 105: Mentor and Muse
  • EN 110: Introduction to Literary Studies
  • EN 213: Poetry
  • EN 313: Modernist Poetry
  • EN 314: Contemporary Poetry
  • EN 359: Modern Drama
  • EN 361: Theories of Literary Criticism
  • EN 375: Avant-Garde and Beat

Selected Publications:

  • Encyclopedia of the New York School Poets (Facts on File, 2009).
  • The Scene of My SelvesNew Work on New York SchoolPoets. Co-edited with Stephen Paul Miller  (National Poetry Foundation, 2001).
  • William Carlos Williams and the Ethics of Painting (Princeton UP, 1991).
  • Yeats & American Poetry: The Tradition of the Self(Princeton UP, 1983).