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