John Shoptaw, Continuing Lecturer
Office: 476 Wheeler
Phone: 510-642-4805
Email: jshoptaw@berkeley.edu
Areas of Interest
American Literature to 1900. 20th-Century American Literature. Creative Writing. Poetry.Current Research
John Shoptaw is currently finishing a book of poems, Times Beach, and an article on Dickinson and the Civil War.Selected Publications and Papers Delivered
"Lyric Cryptography" Poetics Today 21 (2000)
"It's about you: John Ashbery's spongier representations" Annals of Scholarship (2003)
"Listening to Dickinson" Representations 86 (Spring 2004)
On the Outside Looking Out: John Ashbery's Poetry (Harvard 1995)
Our American Cousin (opera libretto, 2008)
Office Hours
TTh 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm Wheeler 476
