College of Humanities People

Jeredith Merrin, Professor

Department of English: http://english.osu.edu/

Office Information
502 Denney Hall, 164 West 17th Avenue, Columbus, OH, 43210
Email: merrin.1@osu.edu
Phone: 292-5798

Office Hours:
Fall '09--10:00-12:00 Fridays,and by appointment.

Personal URL(s):
and: http://www.jeredithmerrin.com

General Background:
Jeredith Merrin (Professor) (Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley): Poetry and poetic theory, twentieth-century literature, creative writing (poetry). Author of An Enabling Humility: Marianne Moore, Elizabeth Bishop, and the Uses of Tradition; Shift, a book of poetry published by the University of Chicago Press (Phoenix Poets Series), and Bat Ode (2001), also from Phoenix Poets Series; articles on Moore, Bishop, George Herbert, Charlotte Mew, Randall Jarrell, John Clare, Billy Collins,Yehuda Amichai, and others. Poetry published in Ploughshares, Ms., Kenyon Review, Hudson Review, Paris Review, Southwest Review, Sewanee Review, The Southern Review, Yale Review,Slate, and elsewhere.

Twentieth-Century British and American Literature