Susan McCabe (born in

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. She is currently a Professor of

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at the

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Life

Susan McCabe received her Ph.D in Literature at

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. She has taught at the

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and

Arizona State University Arizona State University (Arizona State or ASU) is a public research university in the Phoenix metropolitan area. Founded in 1885 by the 13th Arizona Territorial Legislature, ASU is one of the largest public universities by enrollment in t ...

. She currently lives in Los Angeles and teaches in the PhD in Creative Writing & Literature program at the University of Southern California.

Poetry

McCabe is the author of several books of poetry, most recently ''Descartes' Nightmare.''

Scholarly work

From 2005-2006 Susan McCabe was the president of the Modernist Studies Association. Focusing particularly on

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, McCabe's most recent book of criticism is Cinematic Modernism: Modern Poetry & Film (Cambridge University, 2005), out in paperback in 2009. Her critical literary biography H.D. and Bryher: A modernist love story will be out from Oxford University Press in 2018. She has published many reviews and articles ranging on topics of Hitchcock, Telephonics, Stein, and other 20th century figures or cultural movements. Her first book of poems, Swirl (2003), was nominated for a Lambda Award. She won the Agha Shahid Ali Award for Descartes' NIghmare in 2007, selected by Cole Swensen, and published by Utalh University Press in 2008. She is working on a book of poems about the tense interface between humans, cyborgs, machines as we inhabit what she calls the "bi-centurian" perspective.

Honors

*Maria Sutton Weeks Fellow at the {Stanford Humanities Research Center], 2016-2017 *Yale University Reinecke Library Fellowship, Fall 2017 * Fellow (or Equivalent) of National Society in Discipline, American Academy in Berlin, American Academy in Berlin, Fall 2011 * Mellon Award for Graduate Mentoring, 2009-2010 * Advancing Scholarship in the Humanities & Social Sciences, 2008-2009 * Agha Shahid Ali Award, First Prize for Poetry Book, Fall 2007 * Fulbright Award, Research/Lecturer at

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, 1998-1999

Bibliography

* “‘Geographical Emotions’: Bryher & Walter Benjamin, ‘the last European,’” H.D.’s Trilogy and Beyond, eds by Helene Aji and Antoine Cazé, Presses Universitaires De Paris Quest, Summer 2014: 71-99. *“Luis Buñuel's Angel and Maya Deren's Meshes: Trance and the Cultural Imaginary,” Blackwell Companion to Luis Buñuel, eds. by Julian Abilla-Gutierrez and Robert Stone, Spring 2013: 590-607. *“Close Up and the Wars They Saw: From Visual Erotics to a Transferential Politics,” The Space Between: 1900-1945, January 8.1 2013: 11-33. * "'Say Can You See a Wind from the East:' Gertrude Stein and a Feminist Is". (Christine Wertheim, Ed.). (2009;

Les Figues Press Les Figues Press is an American non-profit literary press that publishes poetry, prose, visual art, conceptual writing, and translation. Based in Los Angeles, California, the press curates and hosts literary events, readings, performances, and art ...

) * Descartes' Nightmare: A Book of Poems. (Kate Coles, Ed.). (2008; University of Utah Press) * Cinematic Modernism: Modern Poetry and Film. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. (2005) *Introduction and biography for Visa for Avalon by Bryher, new reprint from Paris Press, Fall 2004. (Select Reviews: Maureen Corrigan on National Public Radio’s “Fresh Air!”; Margaret Atwood, New York Review of Books; Alicia Ostriker, Women’s Review of Books), pp. xi-xxii; pp. 151–8. * Swirl.

Red Hen Press Red Hen Press is an American non-profit press located in Pasadena, California, and specializing in the publication of poetry, literary fiction, and nonfiction. The press is a member of the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses, and was a final ...

. (2003) *“Borderline Modernism: Paul Robeson and the Femme Fatale,” Callaloo 25:2, Spring 2002: 640-53. * Elizabeth Bishop: Her Poetics of Loss. Pennsylvania University State Press. (1994)

References

Susan McCabe's USC Faculty Profile
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