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.