Dr. Angela Sorby蜜桃影像Marquette Hall, 115A/210
MilwaukeeWI53201United States of America(414) 288-7263angela.sorby@marquette.eduCurriculum VitaeMy area of specialization is American poetry: reading it, interpreting it, and writing it. I am especially interested in how poetry engages with readers beyond the academy. Current projects include 鈥淐hapter and Verse,鈥 for the Cambridge History of Children鈥檚 Literature; a study of Viking artifacts in nineteenth-century poetry for a volume titled From Iceland to the Americas; and a new edited collection (with Sandra Lee Kleppe) on poetry and sustainability in higher education.
Past books include Distance Learning (New Issues/Western Michigan UP, 1998); Schoolroom Poets: Poetry, Pedagogy, and Daily Life in America (UPNE 2005, a Children鈥檚 Literature Association Honor Book); Over the River and Through the Wood: An Anthology of Nineteenth-Century American Children鈥檚 Poetry, co-edited with Karen Kilcup (Johns Hopkins UP 2013, a Choice Outstanding Academic Book); Bird Skin Coat: Poems (U of Wisconsin P 2009, winner of the Brittingham Prize and the Midwest Book Award), The Sleeve Waves: Poems (U of Wisconsin P 2014, winner of the Felix Pollak Prize); and a collection co-edited with Sandra Kleppe, Poetry and Pedagogy Across the Lifespan (Palgrave 2018).
Books, Editions, Collections
2018 Poetry and Pedagogy Across the Lifespan, co-edited with Sandra Lee Kleppe.
Palgrave UK.
2014 The Sleeve Waves (poems). Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press.
2013 Over the River and Through the Wood: An Anthology of Nineteenth-Century
American Children鈥檚 Poetry, co-edited with Karen Kilcup. Johns Hopkins University Press.
2009 Bird Skin Coat (poems). Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press.
2005 Schoolroom Poets: Childhood, Performance, and the Place of American Poetry, 1865-1917. Becoming Modern series. Hanover, NH: University of New Hampshire/University Press of New England.
1998 Distance Learning (poems). Kalamazoo, MI: New Issues Press/Western Michigan University.
Scholarly articles and book chapters (selected):
2018 鈥淏aby to Baby: Lydia Sigourney and the Origins of Cuteness,鈥 in Elizabeth Petrino and Mary Louise Kete, eds. Lydia Sigourney: Critical Essays and Cultural Views. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press.
2018 鈥淭he Chemistry of Poetry: Transfer Across Disciplines,鈥 with Tracy Thompson, in Sandra Kleppe and Angela Sorby, eds., Poetry and Pedagogy Across the Lifespan (London: Palgrave UK, 2018) 19-36.
2017 "鈥橝 Dimple in the Tomb": Cuteness in Emily Dickinson.鈥" ESQ: A Journal of Nineteenth- Century American Literature and Culture, 63: 2 (2017) 297-328.
2017 鈥淐onjuring Readers: Antebellum African-American Children鈥檚 Poetry,鈥 a chapter in Anna Mae Duane and Kate Capshaw Smith, eds., Who Writes for Black Children? African- American Children鈥檚 Literature Before 1900. University of Minnesota Press.
2016 鈥淲omen Poets, Child Readers,鈥 in Jennifer Putzi and Alexandra Socarides, eds., A History of American Women鈥檚 Poetry. Cambridge University Press.
2016 鈥淐hildren鈥檚 Culture,鈥 in Gary Burns, ed., The Blackwell Companion to Popular Culture. New York: Blackwell.
2015 鈥At Home in the Stranger鈥檚 House: Poetic Revision and Spiritual Practice,鈥 in Anne M. Pasero and John Pustejovsky, 鈥淎nd have you changed your life?鈥 The Challenge of Listening to the Spiritual in Contemporary Poetry. 蜜桃影像 Press.
2014 鈥淒isciplined Play: Children鈥檚 Poetry to 1920,鈥 a chapter in Alfred Bendixen and Stephen Burt, eds., The Cambridge History of American Poetry. Cambridge University Press.
2013 鈥淓ducation,鈥 in Eliza Richards, ed., Emily Dickinson In Context. Cambridge University Press, 36-45.
2013 鈥淧retty New Moons: Contact Zones in Nineteenth-Century American Children鈥檚 Poetry,鈥 with Karen Kilcup. Introduction to Over the River and Through the Wood. Johns Hopkins UP.
2012 鈥淩ecitation鈥 and 鈥淔ireside Poets,鈥 entries in The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, Princeton UP, 2012.
2011 鈥淲ho Wrote 鈥淩ock Me to Sleep?: Elizabeth Akers Allen and the Profession of Poetry鈥欌 in MLQ: A Journal of Literary History.
2011 鈥淭he Poetics of Bird-Defense, 1860-1918鈥 in Mike Chasar and Heidi Bean, eds., Poetry After Cultural Studies. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press.
2011 鈥淭he Golden Age,鈥 in Philip Nel and Lissa Paul, eds., Keywords for Children鈥檚 Literature, NY: New York University Press, 96-99.
2010 鈥淎nimal Poems and Children's Rights in America, 1820-1890,鈥 in Morag Styles, et. al., eds., Poetry and Childhood. Stoke-on-Kent, UK: Trentham Books.
2010 鈥淟ongfellow鈥檚 Ghost: Writing Popular Poetry,鈥 in Blas Falconer, ed., Mentor and Muse: Essays from Poets to Poets. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press.
2009 鈥淭he Milwaukee School of Fleshly Poetry: Ella Wheeler Wilcox and Popular Aestheticism,鈥 Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers.
2008 鈥淩aymond Carver鈥檚 Poetry and the Temperance Tradition,鈥 Raymond Carver Review.
2007 鈥淪ymmetrical Womanhood: Poetry in the Woman鈥檚 Building Library,鈥 Libraries and Culture.
2007 "Approaches to Teaching the Schoolroom Poets," in Paula Bennett and Karen Kilcup, Approaches to Teaching Nineteenth-Century American Poetry. NY: Modern Language Association Press.
1999 鈥淧erforming Class: James Whitcomb Riley鈥檚 Poetry of Distinction,鈥 MLQ: A Journal of Literary History.
1998 鈥St. Nicholas Magazine and the Poetics of Peer Culture, 1872-1900,鈥 American Studies.
Poetry, Fiction, and Creative Nonfiction Publications (selected)
2018 鈥淟imn,鈥 in Feminist Studies. Poetry.
2017 鈥淭he Boring Side of the Family,鈥 in Tina Schumann, ed., Two-Countries: U.S. Daughters
and Sons of Immigrant Parents. Los Angeles: Red Hen P. Poetry.
2017 鈥淓xercise,鈥 Poetry Northwest. Poetry.
2017 鈥淣o One Knows Where the Ladder Goes,鈥 The First Line. Fiction. Finalist, Best Small Fictions 2017.
2016 鈥淐ode Violations: Chicago Review in the 1990s,鈥 in Chicago Review. Creative nonfiction.
2014 鈥淪tranger Danger,鈥 Journal of the West 53 (4): 56-59. Creative nonfiction.
2014 鈥淢emo from the Center for Teaching and Learning,鈥 The Chronicle of Higher
Education. Creative nonfiction.
2013 鈥淧aradise, Wisconsin,鈥 Barrow Street. Poetry.
2013 鈥淪ivka-Burka,鈥 鈥淚nterstate,鈥 鈥淎 is for Air,鈥 鈥淣otes from a Northern State, Prairie Schooner Poetry.
2013 "A Walk Across the Ice," "Golden Spike," "Ink.鈥 Mesa, AZ: Superstition Review, 2013. Poetry.
2011 鈥淐reating a Cone of Silence in China,鈥 The Chronicle of Higher Education. Creative nonfiction.
2011 鈥淪napshots of a Semester in China,鈥 The Chronicle of Higher Education, May 2, 2011. Creative nonfiction.
2009 鈥淟ooking Backward: 2020,鈥 The Chronicle of Higher Education, April 1, 2009. Creative nonfiction.
2012 鈥淔allout,鈥 鈥淲ide Boulevard, Tiny Apartment,鈥 Zone 3. Poetry.
2012 鈥淪topping At the Joyce Kilmer Rest Area On a Snowy Evening,鈥 North American Review. Poetry.
2011 鈥淭hrifting,鈥 Massachusetts Review. Poetry.
2011 鈥淧engyou,鈥 read by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on Weekend All Things Considered (NPR), April 2011. Fiction.
2010 鈥淪pill,鈥 Poets for Living Waters. Poetry.
2009 鈥淭he Suburban Mysteries,鈥 Jacket 38.
2009 鈥淟etter to Hugo from the Land of the Living,鈥 Babel Fruit. Poetry.
2009 鈥淔lyover State,鈥 Shepherd Express. Reprint.
2008 鈥淪ix Degrees of Separation,鈥 Willow Springs. Poetry.
2008 鈥淣ostalgia for the Present,鈥 鈥淭wo Toyotas Crash,鈥 and 鈥淏reathing Out Smoke,鈥 Southern Review. Poetry.
2004 鈥淓mpire Builder鈥 in John Burnside, ed. Wild Reckoning: An Anthology Provoked by Rachel Carson鈥檚 鈥楽ilent Spring.鈥 Gulbenkian Foundation (UK), 2004. Reprint. Poetry.
2004 鈥淐atch and Release,鈥 Pinyon (2004): 18. Special issue on Norwegian poetry; in English, and translated into Norwegian (as 鈥淪lip og Fang鈥) by Sandra Lee Kleppe. Poetry.
2003 鈥淕lossolalia鈥 in Diane Boller, et. al., eds. Poetry Daily: 366 Poems from the World鈥檚 Most Popular Website. Sourcebooks, 2003. Reprint; also appeared on the Poetry Daily website. Poetry.
2001 鈥淩eally Barely There,鈥 Born: Art and Literature Collaboration (2001): n.p. Art by Karen Ingram.
2000 鈥淚nsomnia鈥 and 鈥淭he Attic of the Attic,鈥 Portland Review. Poetry.
2000 鈥淟and of Lincoln鈥 and 鈥淭he Man Without a Middle,鈥 in America Poetry: The Next Generation. Jim Daniels and Gerald Constanzo, eds., Carnegie-Mellon University Press, 2000. Reprint. Poetry.
1998 鈥淟and of Lincoln,鈥 鈥淩eally Barely There,鈥 and 鈥淜ate Fox,鈥 Third Coast. Poetry.
1996 鈥淲eather at Ten,鈥 North American Review. Poetry.
1995 鈥淢useum Piece,鈥 in Richard Howard, ed., Best American Poetry 1995, Simon & Schuster, 1995. Reprint. Poetry.
1994 鈥淢useum Piece,鈥 The Nation. Poetry.
Reviews and Review Essays:
2017 Review of Denise Duhamel, Scald, in Chicago Review 60:4 (2017), 3 pp.
2016 Review of Donelle Ruwe, British Children's Poetry in the Romantic Era: Verse, Riddle, and Rhyme in Children's Literature Association Quarterly 40: 1 (Winter 2016), 420-422.
2015 Review of Claudia Stokes, The Altar at Home: Sentimental Literature and Nineteenth- Century American Religion. Modern Philology 113, 2 (November 2015): E112-E114
2015 Review of Mary Robson, Heart Beats: Everyday Life and the Memorized Poem. MLQ 76: 1 (March 2015): 212-214.
2014 Roundtable review (with Monika Elbert) of Anna Mae Duane, Suffering Childhood: Violence, Race, and the Making of the Child Victim. Journal of American Studies 48:1 (February 2014): 1-9.
2010 鈥淚t's (Not) All Small Stuff: The Lion and the Unicorn Award for Children鈥檚 Poetry,鈥 with Michael Heyman and Joseph T. Thomas, in The Lion and the Unicorn 34 (September 2010): 354-363.
2009 Lively Rigor: the 2009 Lion and the Unicorn Award for Children鈥檚 Poetry,鈥 with Michael Heyman and Joseph T. Thomas, in The Lion and the Unicorn 33: 3 (September 2009):
376-396.
2008 Review of Joseph T. Thomas, Poetry鈥檚 Playground, in Children鈥檚 Literature 36: (2008):
245-247.
2008 鈥溾榝rom the brain all the way to the heart鈥: the 2008 Lion and the Unicorn Award for
Children鈥檚 Poetry,鈥 with Richard Flynn and Joseph T. Thomas, in The Lion and the Unicorn 32: 3 (September 2008): 344-356.
2008 Featured essay review of Joan Shelley Rubin, Songs of Ourselves, American Historical Review 113 (April 2008): 449-451.
2007 鈥淢essage in a Bottle: the 2007 Lion and the Unicorn Award for Children鈥檚 Poetry,鈥 with Richard Flynn and Joseph T. Thomas, The Lion and the Unicorn 31 (2007): 264-281.
2007 Review of Christopher Irmscher, Longfellow Redux, in New England Quarterly, 80:1 (March 2007): 40-41.
2006 Review of Joel Scott and Matthew Pace, eds., Wordsworth in American Literary Culture, in European Romantic Review 11:4 (2006): 502-507.
2004 Review of James Guthrie, Above Time: Emerson鈥檚 and Thoreau鈥檚 Temporal Revolutions, in M/MLA Journal 37:1 (Spring 2004): 117-118.
2001 Review of J.D. McClatchy, Twenty Questions: Posed by Poems, in M/MLA Journal 34: 3 (Autumn, 2001): 89-91
1999 Review of Elizabeth Arnold, The Reef, in Chicago Review 49: 2 (1999): 137-139.
1996 Review of Lynne Crosbie, VillainElle, in Chicago Review, 42:2 (1996): 117-119.
1996 Review of Fatima Lim-Wilson, Crossing the Snow Bridge, in Chicago Review,42:1 (1996): 88-89.
1995 Review of Lawrence Graver, An Obsession with Anne Frank: Meyer Levin and the Diary,
in Chicago Review 41:4 (1995): 142-144.
1995 Review of Natasha Saj茅, Red Under the Skin, in Chicago Review 41:1 (1995): 97-98.
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