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Tom Orange

Title: Lecturer

Department: English

Office: 117 Alumni Hall
Phone: 615-322-2075
Fax: 615-343-4718
Email: tom.orange@vanderbilt.edu

Degrees

  • Ph.D., The University of Western Ontario (2007)
  • M.A., North Carolina State University (1995)
  • B.A., Georgetown University (1991)

Research Area

  • American Poetry, 20th Century
  • Dissertation: "Clark Coolidge in Context: A New American Poetry 1962-1978" (Stephen Adams, supervisor; Bob Perelman, external examiner)

Current Courses

  • ENGL 118W (Literature and Jazz)

Current Positions

  • Assistant Director, Writing Studio

Previous Positions

  • Lecturer, Department of English, The George Washington University, 2005-2007
  • Learning Specialist, Disability Support Services, The George Washington University, 2001-2007
  • Lecturer, Department of English, Georgetown University, 2000-2006
  • Undergraduate Studies Coordinator, Department of English, Georgetown University, 1999-2001
  • Teaching Assistant, The University of Western Ontario, 1995-1998

Publications

  • “Clark Coolidge’s Visual Arts Intertexts 1968-1976,” in Fascicle 2 (Winter 2005/2006), online at http://www.fascicle.com/issue02/main/issue02_frameset.htm
  • “Notes Towards a Reading of Ace,” in The Poetry of Tom Raworth, a special issue of The Gig #13/14 (April 2003), 81-87
  • “William Carlos Williams Between Image and Object,” in William Carlos Williams and the Language of Poetry, ed. Burton Hatlen and Demetres Tryphonopoulos (Orono, ME: National Poetry Foundation, 2003, 127-156 (also published as Sagetrieb 18.2&3)
  • “Arrangement and Density: A Context for Early Clark Coolidge,” New American Writing 19 (2001), 50-64 (Also published in Jacket 13, online at http://www.jacketmagazine.com/13/coolidge-o-a.html)
  • “An Interview with Clark Coolidge,” New American Writing 19 (2001), 1-22 (Also published in Jacket 13, online at http://www.jacketmagazine.com/13/index.html)
  • “Situation: Indifference: Theory and Current Poetics,” Open Letter: a Canadian Journal of Writing and Theory 10.5 (Spring 1999), 122-27
  • Poems in print journals: If Poetry Journal #1 (forthcoming, 2007) 26 #E (Spring 2007), Primary Writing #42 (March 2007), 88: A Journal of Contemporary American Poetry #6 (December 2006), Court Green #4 (Spring 2007), The Poker #7 (Winter 2006), Ambit #3 (Spring 2005), The Gig #17 (October 2004), Phoebe #33.2 (Fall 2004), Boog City #13 / The Tangent #14 (February 2004), The Tangent #11 (June 2002), Bivouac #2 (Summer 2002), Anomaly #1 (Spring/Summer 2002), Sulfur #44 (Spring 1999), Rampike #11.1 (1999), Queen Street Quarterly #2.3 (Fall 1998)
  • Poetry Chapbooks: Bivalve Sonnet, Washington DC: Big Game Books, 2007; A Day in Switzerland, Schaffhausen (Switzerland): Dusie, 2006; 25 Poems, Washington DC: The Interrupting Cow, 2004
  • Selection of poetry online at Poet's Corner http://www.fieralingue.it/modules.php?name=Content&pa=list_pages_categories&cid=207