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Michael Coyle

Professor of English

English , 402 Lathrop Hall

p 315 2287264

MCoyle@colgate.edu

Degree

BA Miami University 1978; MA, PhD University of Virginia 1981, 1986

Specialities

Critical theory, literary and cultural change 1870-1940, modernist poetry, Victorian and Modernist intellectual prose, the formation of youth culture

Interests

Modernist poetry, critical theory, history and force of "culture" as an explanatory discourse, jazz

Publications

• Professional Attention: Ezra Pound and the Career of Modern Criticism (forthcoming, Camden House Press)

• Editor, Raymond Williams & Modernism (Keywords, 2002)

• Editor, Ezra Pound and African American Modernism (NPF, 2001)

• Ezra Pound, Popular Genres, and the Discourse of Culture (Penn State Univ. Press, 1995)

• "Eliot on the Air: 'Culture' and the Challenges of Mass Communication," in Time Present and Time Past: T.S. Eliot and Our Turning World, ed. J.S. Brooker (Macmillan, 1999)

• "The European Radio Broadcasts of T.S. Eliot," (Miscellanea 20, 1999)

• "A Present with Innumerable Pasts: Postmodernity and the Tracing of Modernist Origins" (Review, 1996)

• "Organizing Organicism: J.A. Hobson and the Interregnum of Raymond Williams" (ELT, 1994)

• "Determining Frontiers: T.S. Eliot's Framing of the Literary Essays of Ezra Pound" (Modern Language Quarterly, 1989)

• "A Profounder Didacticism: Ruskin, Orage, and Pound's Reception of Social Credit" (Paideuma, 1988)

Others in American Literary Scholarship, ELH and The Dictionary of Literary Biography; reviews in American Literature, Ariel, ELT, Essays in Criticism, and Paideuma; regular contributions to Cadence: The Review of Blues, Jazz, & Creative Improvised Music.