Department of English : University of Vermont

Department of English

Faculty - Isaac Cates

Isaac Cates,Lecturer

B.A. University of Texas - Austin
M.A. Johns Hopkins University
Ph.D. Yale University

Area of expertise

Modern and contemporary poetry, nature poetry and nature writing, the interaction between science and poetry, and time in poetry; Modernism and the difficulty of the Modernist avant-garde; the graphic novel, comics as a literary medium, and autobiographical comics; poetic form, formal constraints, and oulipo / oubapo. [C.V.]

Contact Information

Email: Isaac Cates

Office: 438 Old Mill

Office Hours: Mon., Wed., Fri.10:30-11:30

Courses Taught: ENGS 085: Texts & Contexts: the Literal and the Figurative; ENGS 114 Topics in Writing: Formal Verse Technique; ENGS 119 Advanced Writing: Poetry; ENGS 162 Twentieth-Century Irish Poetry; ENGS 164 Modern Poetry; ENGS 167 The Modern Masterpiece in Fragments

Selected Publications: Essays on Louise Glück, Robinson Jeffers, Daniel Clowes (www.indyworld.com), etc.; numerous reviews of contemporary poetry (www.smartishpace.com - Unmentionables & www.smartishpace.com-Bucolics) and graphic novels. Poems in 32 Poems, Southern Poetry Review, Southwest Review, Hayden's Ferry Review (www.asu.edu-Haydens Ferry Review), Unsplendid (www.unsplendid.com), etc.