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Jeff Westover

Professor 

Jeff Westover, English Literature, Boise State

Jeff Westover teaches American literature, concentrating on the twentieth century. His research focuses on poetry, and his book The Colonial Moment: Discoveries and Settlements in Modern American Poetry, was named an outstanding academic title by Choice magazine in 2005.

Education

  • Ph.D., English, Boston College
  • M.A., English, Northeastern University
  • B.A., English, Hiram College

Interests

Poetry, modern and contemporary American literature

Recent Publications

  • Editor, Marianne Moore and the Archives: From Material Culture to the Digital Humanities (Clemson University Press, 2024).
  • “Writing Dawn and Day in the Work of Mary Oliver and Ralph Waldo Emerson.” Critical Insights: Ralph Waldo Emerson, edited by Jericho Williams. Salem-Grey House, 2023. 205-21. ISBN 978-1-63700-440-1
  • “From No Name Woman to Gu Liu Xin: Ghosts and Writing in Amy Tan’s The Bonesetter’s Daughter.” Critical Insights: Amy Tan, edited by Kathryn West and Linda Trinh Moser (Salem Press, 2021), pp. 105-120. ISBN 978-1-64265-994-8
  • “Elizabeth Bishop’s Perspectives on Marriage.” Elizabeth Bishop and the Literary Archive, edited by Dr. Bethany Hicok, Lever Press, 2019, pp. 65-79. https://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.11649332. Open Access
  • “Story, Discourse, and the Voice of the Other in W.S. Merwin’s The Folding Cliffs,” Genre, vol. 52, no. 1 (2019): 51-75. https://doi.org/10.1215/00166928-7501016
  •  “Repression, Renewal, and the Race of Women in H.D.’s Ion” in Classics in Modernist Translation, edited by Miranda Hickman and Lynn Kozak, Bloomsbury Academic, 2019, pp. 77-90. ISBN 9781350040953.

Courses

  • ENGL 306 Studies in a Genre: Poetry
  • ENGL 387 Modern and Contemporary American Literature