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Heather McHugh

Professor Emerita
Heather McHugh

Contact Information

nomenclatter@gmail.com
Personal Website

Fields of Interest

Art Creative Writing Film/Cinema Graphic Design Photography Poetry and Poetics Rhetoric and Composition The Art of Reading and the Writing of Poetry

Biography

B.A., Harvard University, 1970
M.A., University of Denver, 1972

Research

Selected Research

  • Heather McHugh. Upgraded to Serious. Copper Canyon Press. 2012.
  • Heather McHugh. Eyeshot. Wesleyan University Press. 2003.
  • Heather McHugh. Glottal Stop: Poems by Paul Celan. Wesleyan University Press.
  • Heather McHugh. Cyclops. Translation. Original by Euripides. Oxford University Press. 1999.
  • Heather McHugh. The Father of the Predicaments. Wesleyan University Press. 1999.
  • Heather McHugh. Hinge & Sign: Poems, 1968-1993. Wesleyan University Press. 1994.
  • Heather McHugh. Broken English: Poetry and Partiality. Wesleyan University Press. 1993. rev. and reissued 1999.

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Related News

  • UW English in the Press (May 24, 2021)
  • Faculty Books (September 3, 2020)
  • Faculty and Staff Notes (September 2, 2020)
  • Retirement / Nikolai Popov (September 2, 2020)
  • Alumni Updates (May 28, 2017)
  • Faculty Emeriti Luncheon (November 19, 2016)
  • Retirements - Heather McHugh (October 28, 2015)
  • CareGifted: In the End, It's All Worth It (October 27, 2015)
  • Faculty Notes (December 13, 2013)
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