Professional Statement
I arrived at U.C. Berkeley in the fall of 2006 after finishing my Ph.D. at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. My book on contemporary Irish poetry, Continuity and Change in Irish Poetry, 1966-2010, has just been published by Cambridge University Press. I am beginning work on a second book project on the conjunctions and disjunctions between poetry and music, as well as on the Cambridge Introduction to British Poetry, 1945-2010, which is under contract with Cambridge University Press.
Specialties
Books
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Continuity and Change in Irish Poetry, 1966-2010 In Continuity and Change in Irish Poetry, 1966-2010, Eric Falci reshapes the story of Irish poetry since the 1960s. He shows how polemical arguments concerning the role of poetry in 1960s Ireland evolve into a set of formal and compositional strategies for emerging Irish poets in the mid-1970s and beyond. His study presents a cohesive picture of the relationship between Northern Irish poetry fr.... |
Selected Publications and Papers Delivered
“Translation as Collaboration: Ní Dhomhnaill and Muldoon”
in the Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Poetry (Oxford UP, 2012)
“Reading in the Gutters”
in Modern Irish and Scottish Poetry: Comparative Readings (Cambridge UP, 2011)
“Meehan’s Stanzas and Irish Lyric After Yeats”
in An Sionnach: A Journal of Literature, Culture, and the Arts (Spring 2009)
“Space, Place and Landscape”
in the Blackwell Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Poetry (2009)
Current Research
I am currently working on an introductory volume on post-1945 British poetry for Cambridge University Press. I have recently completed an essay on the poetry of Trevor Joyce for an edited collection on his work to be published by Shearsman Books. Projects to be undertaken in the near-ish future include an essay on Medbh McGuckian's 2002 volume, The Face of the Earth; a piece entitled "Modernist Peripheries: Stony Limits" to be included in A History of Modernist Poetry (Cambridge UP); and a book project on modern poetry and music, tentatively titled Poetry's Musics.
Recent English Courses Taught
Fall, 2013
| 45C/1 | Literature in English: Mid-19th Through the 20th Century |
Introductory Surveys British 20th- and 21st-Century American Literature |
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| 45C/101 -- discussion section |
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| 45C/102 -- discussion section |
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| 45C/103 -- discussion section |
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Spring, 2013
| H195B/1 | Honors Course |
Honors and Tutorial Courses |
Fall, 2012
| H195A/1 | Honors Course |
Honors and Tutorial Courses |
Spring, 2012
| 134/1 | Contemporary Literature |
British 20th- and 21st-Century Novel Poetry |
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| 190/2 | Research Seminar: Yeats, Joyce, & Beckett |
British 20th- and 21st-Century Novel Poetry Research Seminars |
Fall, 2011
| 203/6 | Graduate Readings: Anglophone Poetry |
Graduate Courses |
Spring, 2011
| 45C/2 | Literature in English: Mid 19th- Through the 20th Century |
Introductory Surveys |
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| 190/1 | Research Seminar: Music and Poetry |
Research Seminars |