Paul Kane, PhD
Paul Kane has published, as author or editor, twenty books and numerous essays, reviews and poems in various literary and scholarly periodicals, including Poetry, The New Republic, The Paris Review, Raritan, Partisan Review, The New Criterion, The Sewanee Review, Australian Book Review, World Literature Today, and elsewhere. He has published ten collections of poems, including: The Farther Shore, Drowned Lands, Work Life, A Slant of Light, Welcome Light, Renga: 100 Poems, A Passing Bell, and Earth, Air, Water, Fire; two editions with The Library of America, Ralph Waldo Emerson: Collected Poems and Translations (co-edited with Harold Bloom) and Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays and Poems; two anthologies, Poetry of the American Renaissance and Vintage, a collection of contemporary Australian writing; a critical and scholarly study, Australian Poetry: Romanticism and Negativity; two collaborations with the photographer William Clift, A Hudson Landscape and Mont St-Michel/Shiprock and a Festschrift for the poet Les Murray, Letters to Les.
From 1987 to 2022, he served as poetry editor of Antipodes and is involved with other journals and magazines as a board member; from 2002 to 2020, he was the Artistic Director of the annual Mildura Writers Festival. A frequent visitor to Australia, he built a house on a mountain north of Melbourne, where he spends time each year. He is also active in collaborating with artists, photographers, composers, and other writers on books, gallery shows, musical performances and CDs.
Educated at Yale University (B.A., M.A., PhD), he also studied at the University of Melbourne (M.A.) as a Fulbright scholar to Australia in 1984-85, and was the Schweitzer Prize Preceptor in Poetics at New York University in 1985-86. He has taught at Yale University, Monash University (Australia), the University of Bologna (Italy) and, at Vassar, where he offered courses in the English Department and the Environmental Studies Program. His research and teaching interests include topics in American and British literature, from the eighteenth to the twenty-first century; literary theory and history of criticism; poetry; creative writing; literature and the environment; literature and philosophy, literature and religion; and Australian and other post-colonial literatures.
His awards include a Fulbright grant, fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Bogliasco Foundation, as well as an honorary doctorate from La Trobe University in Australia, and, in 2022, The Order of Australia from the Australian government for “significant service to literature, particularly through the promotion of Australian arts, poetry, and emerging talent.”
A resident of Clinton Corners, NY, he also has a second home in Warwick, NY.
Contact
- Email: kane@vassar.edu
- Phone: (845) 544-0803
- Website: wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Kane_(poet)
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