Virginia M. Kouidis, Associate Professor, received
her PhD from the University of Iowa. Her general area is American
literature with specializations in American modernism and twentieth-century
poetry and poetics. The author of Mina Loy: American Modernist
Poet, she has also published articles on women writers in the
Emersonian tradition and on the contest to define an American poetics
among leading male modernist poets. She is co-editor of the Southern
Humanities Review. Her work-in-progress is a book on modernist
love songs of 1917.
Representative Publications
Co-editor with Bert Hitchcock of American Short
Stories, 7th ed., Longman, 2002.
"Prison into Prism: Emerson's 'Many-Colored Lenses' and the Woman Writer of Early Modernism," in The Green American Tradition, ed. Daniel Peck, Louisiana State UP, 1989.
"Denise Levertov: 'Her Illustrious Ancestry,'" North Dakota Quarterly 55 (1987): 103-22.
Mina Loy: American Modernist Poet, Louisiana State UP, 1980.
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