Lyn Hejinian, Professor

Office: 406 Wheeler

Phone: 510-642-3373

Areas of Interest

20th-Century American Literature. African American Literature. Creative Writing. Poetry. Poetics.

Current Research

Professor Hejinian also works on modernist and postmodern literature, American postwar experimental literature, Gertrude Stein, the Objectivists, Language Writing, Soviet Russian poetry, translation, small press publishing, and questions of aesthetics and ethics.

Selected Publications and Papers Delivered

poetry:Saga / Circus (Omnidawn Books, 2008)Situations, Sings (written with Jack Collom; Adventures in Poetry, 2008)The Lake (with Emilie Clark; Granary Books, 2004)My Life in the Nineties (Shark Books, 2003)The Fatalist (Omnidawn Books, 2003)Slowly (Tuumba Press, 2002)A Border Comedy (Granary Books, 2001) The Beginner (Spectacular Books, 2000; Tuumba Press, 2002) Happily (Post-Apollo Press, 2000)Sight (written with Leslie Scalapino; Edge Books, 1999)Oxota: A Short Russian Novel (The Figures, 1991)My Life (second version; Sun & Moon Press, 1987) volumes of critical prose:The Language of Inquiry (University of California Press, 2000)Leningrad, written with Michael Davidson, Ron Silliman, Barrett Watten (Mercury House, 1991) translations:Description, poems by Arkadii Dragomoshchenko (Sun & Moon Press, 1990)Xenia, poems by Arkadii Dragomoshchenko (Sun & Moon Press, 1994)

Office Hours

M 4:15 - 6:15