CATHERINE PAUL

ABOUT PROFESSOR CATHERINE E. PAUL

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In my past life, I was Professor of English at Clemson University, where I taught from 1998-2015. I retired on disability in 2015 and became Professor Emerita of English. My area of expertise was modern poetry, and I taught classes in modern British, American, and Irish poetry, as well as modern fiction, museum studies, literature and the other arts, modern literature of exploration, occult modernism, and theories of the archive. I am author of Fascist Directive: Ezra Pound and Italian Cultural Nationalism (2016) and Poetry in the Museums of Modernism: Yeats, Pound, Moore, Stein (2002), as well as numerous peer-reviewed articles about Modernism. With Margaret Mills Harper, I edited W. B. Yeats's A Vision: The Revised 1937 Version (2015) and A Vision: The Original 1925 Version (2008), both published in Scribner's Collected Works of W. B. Yeats series. My scholarship was always interdisciplinary, exploring how poets draw from visual arts, music, architecture, archaeology, museums, and urban planning. Now I remember that “textile” holds “text” in its core.

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I completed my Ph.D. and M.A. in English Language and Literature at the University of Michigan, and my B.A. in English at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.