Office Hours:
On leave academic year.

Brett Millier
Professor
Axinn Center at Starr Library 304
Phone: (802) 443 - 5026
Email: millier@middlebury.edu
Degrees, Specializations & Interests:
Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut. B.A. in American Studies awarded May, 1980, magna cum laude with Distinction in the Major.

Stanford University, Stanford, California. Ph.D. in English and American Literature awarded June, 1986. Dissertation: "Elizabeth Bishop: Life and the Memory of It"

Publications 

BOOKS:

Elizabeth Bishop: Life and the Memory of It, University of California Press, 1993.

Associate Editor (with Jay Parini), Columbia History of American Poetry, Columbia University Press, 1993.

ESSAYS AND REVIEWS:

"A Modest Challenge: Elizabeth Bishop Meets Ezra Pound." Verse 4:3 (December 1987), 37-49.

"Dusty Rhoads." Baseball History 14 (1988), 13-18.

"Modesty and Morality: George Herbert, Gerard Manley Hopkins, and Elizabeth Bishop." Kenyon Review XI:2 (Spring,1989), 47-56.

Review of Thomas Travisano, Elizabeth Bishop: Her Artistic Development, and Robert Dale Parker, The Unbeliever, The Times Literary Supplement, May 12-18, 1989, p. 516.

"William Meredith," Catalog Essay, Abernethy Collection Exhibit, Starr Library, Middlebury College, Spring, 1989.

"Elusive Mastery: The Drafts of Elizabeth Bishop's `One Art,'" New England Review, 13:2 (Spring, 1991), 121-29. Reprinted in Elizabeth Bishop: The Geography of Gender, ed. May-Lombardi, University of Virginia Press,1993, pp. 233-43. Reprinted in The Writer's Home Companion, ed. Joan Bolker, Henry Holt, 1997, pp. 101-116. Reprinted in part in Literature: An Introduction, Gioia and Kennedy, eds. (Harper Collins, 1997) and in Literature and its Writers, Ann Charters and Samuel Charters, eds., (Bedford/St. Martin's, 2000).

Review of Bonnie Costello, Elizabeth Bishop: Questions of Mastery, and Lorrie Goldensohn, Elizabeth Bishop: The Biography of a Poetry, Harvard Review, Spring 1992.

"Elizabeth Bishop," Dictionary of Literary Biography, 1994.

"Louise Bogan," Dictionary of Literary Biography, 1994.

Review of Linda Gray Sexton, Searching for Mercy Street: My Journey Back to My Mother, Anne Sexton, New England Review (forthcoming, Fall 1995).

"The Prodigal: Elizabeth Bishop and Alcohol," Contemporary Literature 39:1 (Spring 1998), pp. 54-76.


Review of Doris Kearns Goodwin, Wait Till Next Year. New England Review 20:2 (Summer 1998), pp. 158-61


"Mailbox Rage," Vermont Magazine (April 1999), 72.


"Elizabeth Bishop," forthcoming in Notable American Women (Cambridge: Radcliffe Institute, 2002)


"'Hold to Oblivion': Edna St. Vincent Millay, Elinor Wylie and Alcohol; forthcoming in Poetesses' Poetics: A Reader, ed by Peggy Davis, Annie Finch, and Laura Mandell

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