Karen Alkalay‑Gut, Ph.D.

Department of English

Tel Aviv University

 

92 Levanon Street, Ramat Aviv, 69345

97236416548,

gut22@post.tau.ac.il

 

Date and Place of Birth: 1945 ‑ London, England.   

EDUCATION                                                                                  

1962‑1966  University of Rochester   English  BA cum laude,  1966, MA  1967,   Ph.D. 1975.

ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS

(A) BOOKS AND MONOGRAPHS                                                                         

Alone in the Dawn: The Life of Adelaide Crapsey.  Athens: University of Georgia Press, December 1988.                

(B) REFEREED ARTICLES                                                                      

1)      “The Decline of the Waistline: A Study of the Shape of the Classic American Heroine,” American Studies International XIX, 1, Autumn, 1980, 39‑50.                                                               

 

2)      “Poetry by Women in America: Aesthetics in Evolution,” The Canadian Review of American Studies 14, 3, Autumn, 1983, 239‑57.                 

 

3)      “The Birth of the Poet’s Mind:  Theodore Roethke’s ‘Where Knock Is Open Wide’,” Contemporary Poetry V, 2, 1983, 17‑41.                               

 

4)      “Quilting Significance: ‘A Jury of Her Peers’,” Studies in Short Fiction, V. 21, No. 1, Winter, 1984, 1‑9. Reprinted in: A Casebook on “A Jury of Her Peers,” ed. Linda Ben Zvi, University of Michigan Press, 1998.          

 

5)      “Death, Order, and Poetry: ‘The Presentation Piece’ of Adelaide Crapsey,”  American Literature, May 1985, 263‑290.                   

 

6)      “’Keeping the Edge of Deprivation Sharp’:  Adelaide Crapsey’s “To the Dead in the Grave‑Yard Under my Window’,”  The Explicator V. 43, No. 2, Winter 1985, 25‑28.                                              

 

7)      “Lilies that Fester:  A Reading of Rich’s ‘An Unsaid Word’,” The Explicator V. 43, No. 2, Winter, 1985, 53‑56.                                                                                                         

 

8)      “Woman in a Trap: Pope’s ‘Eloisa to Abelard’,” College Literature V. XIII No. 3, Fall, 1986, 272‑285. Reprinted in: College Literature V. XV No. 3, Fall 1988, 249‑262 (Special 15th Anniversary Edition of Best Articles in College Literature).                                                                           

 

9)      “Form and the Feminist Revolution,” Poesis, 7:1, 1986, 35‑54.                      

 

10)  “Subversion and