People
Faculty
Keith Tuma
Titles
- Professor of English and Associate Dean, College of Arts and Science
- Editor, Miami University Press
- Editor, Meshworks
Education
- Ph.D. University of Chicago (1987)
- M.A. University of Chicago
- B.A. University of Akron
Teaching Interests
- Modern and contemporary British, Irish, American, and Anglophone literature
- Poetry and poetics
- Creative and performance writing
- History and theory of the avant-garde
Research Interests
- Poetry and poetics
- Modern British, Irish, American, and Anglophone literature
- Creative and performance writing
- Anecdotes and ephemera
Selected Publications
- “Remembering Burton Hatlen.” Sagetrieb. Forthcoming.
- “More Wry than Spontaneous: Trevor Joyce’s What’s in Store.” Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry. Forthcoming.
- On Leave: A Book of Anecdotes. London: Salt Publishing, 2011.
- “The Recent Poems of Professor Matthias.” In Joe Doerr, ed., The Salt Companion to John Matthias. Cambridge: Salt Publishing, 2011. 118-127.
- “After the Bubble.” Chicago Review 56.1 (Spring 2011), 100-115.
- All Our Futile Grief: A Vicarious Vacation in London. With photographs by Billy Simms. The Juice Press: 2010.
- The Paris Hilton (Providence: Critical Documents, 2009).
- “Thom Gunn and Anglo-American Modernism.” In Joshua Weiner, ed., At the Barriers: The Poetry of Thom Gunn (University of Chicago Press, 2009).
- “On Tom Raworth on Tom Raworth.” Poetica 64 (2006).
See http://yushodo.co.jp/english/public2/poetica/index.html - Rainbow Darkness: An Anthology of African American Poetry. Ed.
Miami University Press. 2005. - “The Base.” Fulcrum 4: 2005. 121-124.
- Holiday in Tikrit. With Justin Katko. Critical Documents. 2005.
- “Modernism and anti-Modernism in British Poetry.” With Nate Dorward. Laura Marcus and Peter Nicholls, eds., The Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century English Literature. Cambridge UP 2004. 510-527.
- “Late Dorn.” Chicago Review 49:3-4 & 50:1(2004). 237-252.
- Topical Ointment. Somerville, MA: Slack Buddha Press. 2004. 17 pp.
- “The Poetics of the Eyelash: Marjorie Welish’s Logics and Annotations.” In Aaron Levy and Jean-Michel Rabaté, eds., Of the Diagram: The Work of Marjorie Welish. Philadephia: Slought Foundation, 2003. 171-184.
- “Slobbering Distance: American, British, and Irish Poetries in a Global Era.” In Romana Huk, ed., Assembling Alternatives: Essays in Transnational Reading. Wesleyan UP, 2003. 142-156.
- Critical Path: Into the Bush. Part 1: Report to the Council. With cris cheek and William R. Howe as the Three Little Heretics. Lubbock, TX: Casus Belli, 2003. 64 pp.
- Additional Apparitions: Poetry, Performance, and Site-Specificity. Co-edited and introduced with David Kennedy. Sheffield, UK: The Paper Press, 2002.
- Anthology of 20th Century British and Irish Poetry. Editor. Oxford UP, New York, 2001.
- “Ed Dorn and England." The Gig 6 (Toronto: 2000), 41-54.
- "Midnight at the Oasis: Performing Poetry Inside the Spectacle.” Modernism/Modernity 6.1 (January 1999), 152-163. Review-essay. Reprinted in Twentieth Century Literary Criticism, Vol. 142. Detroit: Gale Research Press.
- Fishing By Obstinate Isles: Modern and Postmodern British Poetry and American Readers. Northwestern UP, 1998. [Selected chapters translated into Polish by Jerzy Jarniewicz for Literatura na Swiecie, 2001]
- Mina Loy: Woman and Poet. Co-edited and introduced with Maeera Shreiber. National Poetry Foundation/University Press of New England, 1998.
- “Ezra Pound, Progressive,” Paideuma 19. 1-2 (Spring & Fall , 1990), 77-92.
- “Wyndham Lewis, Blast, and Popular Culture,” ELH 54. 1 (Spring 1987), 403-419. Reprinted in Twentieth Century Literary Criticism, Vol. 104. Detroit: Gale.
Web Publications
- “After the Bubble” Chicago Review 56.1 (Spring 2011), 100-115.
- “Attention Span 2011”
- “Attention Span 2010.”
- “till mute attention Struck my listning Ear”
Jacket 26. - “Interlopers Aren’t Funny”
Quid 10. - “Loy at Last”
Jacket 5 (Australia). - “Remarks on Recent British and American Poetry,”
Eric Mottram Journal (Albany). - Swarm Intelligence. With Justin Katko. Meshworks.
Work in Progress
Keith Tuma is working on poems, essays, and a sequel to All Our Futile Grief.