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Rachel Trousdale
Professor of English
Framingham State University
Email: rachelvtrousdale at gmail.com |
My full-length poetry book, Five-Paragraph Essay on the Body-Mind Problem, was selected by Robert Pinsky as the inaugural winner of Wesleyan University Press's Cardinal Poetry Prize. The book will be published in 2025. |
Antiphonal Fugue For Marx Brothers, Elephant, and Slide Trombone, Finishing Line Press, 2015. Click here to read about the chapbook in an interview with Nancy Chen Long, or here for an interview at The Chapbook Interview. |
Humor, Empathy, and Community in Twentieth-Century American Poetry. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. |
Humor in Modern American Poetry, an edited collection with contributions by Stephanie Burt, Marta Figlerowicz, Hugh Haughton, Lena Hill, Megan Leroy, Karin Roffman, Alan Shapiro, Joel Slotkin, and William Solomon. New York: Bloomsbury, 2017. Click here to see the table of contents or read the introduction. |
Nabokov, Rushdie, and the Transnational Imagination: Novels of Exile and Alternate Worlds. New York: Palgrave, 2010. Click here for a review from Twentieth Century Literature 58: 2 (2012): 355-364. |