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Professor Philip Coleman

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ARTS BUILDING
      
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Professor Philip Coleman

Professor in (English)
ARTS BUILDING

 Philip.Coleman@tcd.ie

 3531896 1907


I came to Trinity in 1995, having read for a BA in English and Philosophy in University College Cork. After completing an MPhil in Anglo-Irish Literature in TCD in 1996, I wrote a PhD thesis on the poetry of John Berryman, which I completed in 2001. My doctoral research was partly funded by the Irish Research Council for Humanities and Social Sciences and Fulbright Ireland (https://www.fulbright.ie/custom_alumni/prof-philip-coleman/). I reflect on my academic journey to date here: http://ijas.iaas.ie/issue-9-philip-coleman/. My first academic appointments were in UCD as a Postdoctoral Fellow (2002) and in UCC as a Temporary Lecturer (2002-03). I was appointed to a Lectureship in English (Broad Curriculum) in Trinity in 2003. In 2006 I was appointed to a permanent lectureship in English Studies (Literature of the Americas), and in 2006-07 I was first Director of the MPhil in Literatures of the Americas program. In 2008 and 2012 I was Visiting Associate Professor in the Department of English at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, and in 2009 I was Visiting Professor in the English Department at the Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary. In 2015, I was made a Fellow of Trinity College Dublin. From 2018-2021, I was Registrar of Chambers in Trinity and I served as Junior Dean from 2020-23. My research to date has focused mainly on US American poetry, short fiction, and the essay, but I also have a long-standing interest in modern and contemporary Irish poetry in English. My teaching and postgraduate supervision reflects these interests.
  American literature   American Poetry   Anglo-Irish literature, poetry   Contemporary poetry in English   Modernism   Short Fiction
Project Title
 John Berryman: Selected Literary Correspondence
From
2014
To
December 2020
Summary
This volume, under contract to Harvard University Press, will include a generous selection of the US American poet John Berryman's literary correspondence with a wide range of important twentieth-century poets, from W.B. Yeats and T.S. Eliot to Robert Lowell, Adrienne Rich, Delmore Schwartz and James Meredith. The volume will also include Berryman's correspondence with important but forgotten figures such as Robert Bhain Campbell in the 1940s, as well as his epistolary exchanges with artists such as Ben Shahn and the philosopher/historian Erich Kahler.
Project Type
Edited volume of letters

Details Date
European Network for Short Fiction Research 2013-present
Board of Directors, Ireland Literature Exchange 2011-2016
Committee for the Study of Literatures in English, Royal Irish Academy 2011-13
Language Skill Reading Skill Writing Skill Speaking
English Fluent Fluent Fluent
Irish Medium Basic Basic
Details Date From Date To
Irish Association for American Studies 1996 present
Irish Fulbright Alumni Association 1998 present
International Society for the Study of the Short Story 2004 present
European Association for American Studies 1996 present
Modern Language Association 1999 present
The `Mighty Four' and More: Mahon and American Poetry in, editor(s)Nicholas Grene and Tom Walker , Derek Mahon: A Retrospective, Liverpool, Liverpool University Press, 2024, pp49 - 62, [Philip Coleman], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
John Berryman in, editor(s)Thomas Austenfeld and Grzegorz Kosc , Robert Lowell in Context, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2024, pp140 - 148, [Philip Coleman], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
Old World Shadows in the New: Europe and the Nineteenth-Century American Essay in, editor(s)Christy Wampole and Jason Childs , The Cambridge History of the American Essay, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2024, pp96 - 113, [Philip Coleman], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
Transatlantic Essayism in, editor(s)Denise Gigante and Jason Childs , The Cambridge History of the British Essay, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2024, pp570 - 586, [Philip Coleman], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
David Foster Wallace and Poetry in, editor(s)Clare Hayes-Brady , David Foster Wallace in Context, Cambridge, UK, Cambridge University Press, 2023, pp67 - 76, [Philip Coleman], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
"High Company": W.S. Merwin, John Berryman, and the Art of Poetry in, editor(s)Cheri Colby Langdell , Reading W.S. Merwin in a New Century, London and New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2023, pp27 - 42, [Philip Coleman], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
Philip Coleman, "the ghosts who don't know what year it is": Tracy Smith's The Best American Poetry (2021), Word and Text: A Journal of Literary Studies and Linguistics, 12, (1), 2023, p161 - 167, Review Article, PUBLISHED
George Saunders in, editor(s)Erik Redling and Oliver Scheiding , Handbook of the American Short Story, Berlin and Boston, De Gruyter, 2022, pp613 - 626, [Philip Coleman], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
Philip Coleman, "Awing All", Review of Paula Meehan, As If By Magic and Sinéad Morrissey, Found Architecture, by Philip Coleman , Poetry Ireland Review, 133, 2021, p94-98 , Review, PUBLISHED
Philip Coleman and Calista McRae, The Selected Letters of John Berryman, 1, Cambridge MA and London, Harvard University Press, 2020, 1 - 656pp, Book, PUBLISHED  URL
  

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'Between the "Canon" and "Oblivion": Looking in the Books of Maurice Scully' in, editor(s)Kenneth Keating , A Line of Tiny Zeros in the Fabric: Essays on the Poetry of Maurice Scully, Swindon, UK, Shearsman Books, 2020, pp176 - 196, [Philip Coleman], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
Claire Cunningham, 'The Lyric Feature: A Cradle Song', Ireland, RTE Lyric FM, 2020, -, Broadcast, PUBLISHED

  


Award Date
Elmer L. Andersen Research Scholarship, University of Minnesota (2017-18) 2017
Fellowship of Trinity College Dublin 2015
Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences Scholarship 1999-2000
Trinity College Postgraduate Award 1996-1999
Ireland-United States Commission for Educational Exchange / Fulbright Scholarship 1998
My research to date has focussed on (i) modern and contemporary poetry, (ii) modern and contemporary short fiction, (iii) the essay. In each of these areas my focus has been on US American writing, but I have also made contributions in the areas of Irish poetry and modernist studies. My edition of the letters of John Berryman published by Harvard University Press (2020) represents a major contribution to the field of American literary studies, and has been described by Mark Ford (University College London) as "a book that will reconfigure forever our understanding of mid-century American poetry". Following the publication of my earlier books and essays, this work affirms my presence as the leading global authority on Berryman. My research on other key poets, including T.S. Eliot, Muriel Rukeyser, Robert Lowell, Dylan Thomas, Derek Mahon, and Peter Gizzi, has been published in journals and collections including Edinburgh and Wesleyan UP. My research on modern and contemporary American short fiction includes essays on writers ranging from Edgar Allan Poe and Chuck Palahniuk to Alice Munro, Sandra Cisneros, and George Saunders. I have edited and contributed to definitive works on David Foster Wallace, including a volume published by the prestigious Modern Language Association. I co-edited the first collection of scholarly essays on George Saunders. In addition to these projects, I have published co-edited collections of essays on the modernist journal BLAST and the Irish poet Pearse Hutchinson, building on national and international research collaborations. My work on the essay has been published in the Cambridge History of the British Essay and the Cambridge History of the American Essay. I am currently working in a project on Modernist Essayisms that builds on the recent work I have done on the essay.