STEVEN R. EVANS
University of Maine
Address:
Steve Evans
Associate Professor of English
Graduate Studies Coordinator
New Writing Series Coordinator
5752 Neville Hall, Room 313
Orono, Maine 04469-5752
U.S.A.
Office Telephone: (207) 581-3818
E-Mail: steven.evans@umit.maine.edu
***Office Hours for Spring 2009: Tuesdays from 3:30 to 5:00
and by appointment. Graduate students may arrange
a meeting for a Monday or Wednesday afternoon.***
Education
PhD, Brown University, 2000
BA, University of California, 1988
Research Interests
Contemporary poetry and poetics, critical theory, modernism, and the avant-garde.
Experience at the University of Maine
I joined the English Department faculty at the University of Maine as an assistant professor in 1999 and received tenure in 2005. I have coordinated the New Writing Series since 1999 and also served as coordinator for the undergraduate studies program in English from fall of 2004 to spring of 2006. I am currently Graduate Coordinator for the department.
Courses Taught
Graduate
ENG 649: Seminar in Modern and Postmodern American Poetry - After Patriarchal Poetry? Feminism, Gender, and the Avant-Garde in 20th-Century American Poetry > Link to course website.
ENG 580: Topics in Poetry and Poetics - The Poetics of the Phonotext: Timbre, Text, and Technology
ENG 580: Topics in Poetry and Poetics - Introduction to Poetics > Link to course website.
ENG 570: Critical Theory - The German Tradition from Hegel to Adorno
ENG 570: Critical Theory - A Science of the Singular? Roland Barthes and the Desire for Theory > Link to course website.
ENG 529: Listen! American Poetry in the Age of the MP3 > Link to course website.
Undergraduate
ENG 481: Topics in Women's Literature - Feminist and Avant-Garde Poetries of the 1970s > Link to course website.
ENG 470: Topics in Literary Theory and Criticism - Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit & Its Readers > Link to course website.
ENG 470: Topics in Literary Theory and Criticism: The Moment of Tel Quel > Link to course website.
ENG 446: American Poetry > Link to course website.
ENG 440: Major American Writers: Gertrude Stein, William Carlos Williams, & Louis Zukofsky > Link to course website.
ENG 429: Topics in Literature - Listen! Poetry in the Age of the MP3
ENG 429: Topics in Literature - The Vital Word > Link to course website.
HON 310: Proust and the Hermeneutics of Desire > Link to course website.
ENG 271: The Act of Interpretation > Link to course website.
ENG 170: Foundations of Literary Analysis > Link to course website.
Seminar on Black Mountain College (Spring 2001)
Writing, Editing, Programming
Edited volume: After Patriarchal Poetry: Feminism and the Contemporary Avant-Garde, differences 12.2 (2001)
Articles in: The Poker, Aerial, Poetics Journal, Qui Parle and other journals
Contributing editor, The Poker
Other Resources
Bibliography of Avant-Garde Feminist Poetics (2001)
Hegel Reading Group Bibliography (1998)