Dr. Judith Halden-Sullivan

Degrees:

• B.A. English, Millersville University of Pennsylvania, Minor: Russian language, literature, and history.
• M.A. English, The Pennsylvania State University
• Ph.D. English, The Pennsylvania State University

Specializations:

• Rhetoric and Writing Studies
• Contemporary Poetics
• Avant-garde Poetry and Poetics
• Hermeneutic Phenomenology

Interests:

• Hans-Georg Gadamer
• Martin Heidegger
• Poets mainstream presses hate
• The intersections of poetics and rhetoric

University and Program Connections:

• Coordinator, Academy of American Poets Student Poetry Contest (2016-present)
• Chair/Co-Chair, Writing Studies Committee (2004-2017)
• Proposer/Coordinator, Graduate Certificate in Writing (2011-2017)

Community and Club Connections:

• Faculty Adviser, The George Street Carnival, now The George Street Press (2002-2007)
• Judge. James Hale Steinman Scholarship Fund (Lancaster, PA).

Passions and Distractions:

• Poetry writing
• Gardening
• Art history
• Films of all varieties

Courses Taught:

• ENGL 110: Composition
• WRIT 311: Advanced Composition
• The Writing Workshop
• The Graduate Seminar in Rhetoric and Composition
• Innovative Discourses: Experimental/Academic Writing
• Creative Writing: Innovative Styling & Hybrid Genres
• Graduate Seminar in Contemporary American Poetry and Poetics

Sample Publications:

• “A Three-Part Exchange on Stephen Ratcliffe’s Poetry and Thinking.” Dichtung Yammer. An on-line journal of innovative poetics. Part I--December 16, 2020; Part II--February 4, 2021; Part III--June 7, 2021.

• Reading the Difficulties: Dialogues with Contemporary American Innovative Poetry. Book-length study. Editor and essay contributor with Thomas Fink. Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press, 2014.

• "The Game of Self-Forgetting: Reading Innovative Poetry Reading Gadamer." Essay in Reading the Difficulties: Dialogues with Contemporary American Innovative Poetry. Editor and essay contributor with Thomas Fink. Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press, 2014. 127-145.

• "The Experiential Ethos of Advanced Composition." Essay in Principles and Practice: New Discourses for the Vertical Curriculum. Ed. Margaret M. Strain. NY: Hampton Press, 2012. 63-85.

• "Architect / House of Being." "Burning Interiors": David Shapiro's Poetry and Poetics. Eds. Thomas Fink and Joseph Lease. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2007. 31-46.

• "Petaluma." Poem. Muse Apprentice Guild. Spring 2003.

• Reflection and an Appetite for Experience: Theory to Classroom Practice." Journal for the Assembly of Expanded Perspectives on Learning 4 (Winter 1998-9): 52-60.