Jeff Dolven

Jeff Dolven
Alma mater Yale University
University of Oxford
Occupation Academic, poet
Employer Princeton University

Jeff Dolven is an American academic and poet. He is Behrman Professor in the Humanities Council and associate chair of the Department of English at Princeton University. He is the author of three books, one of which is a collection of his poems.

Early life

Dolven graduated from Yale University, where he earned a bachelor's degree in philosophy.[1] He was a Rhodes scholar at the University of Oxford,[2] and he earned a PhD in English from Yale.[1] He was also a fellow of the Young Faculty Leaders Forum at Harvard University.[1] He later joined the Harvard Society of Fellows.[1]

Career

Dolven is the Behrman Professor in the Humanities Council and associate chair of the Department of English at Princeton University.[3] He teaches courses on poetry and poetics.[4]

Dolven is the author of three books, one of which is a collection of his poems. Moreover, his poems have been published in The Paris Review,[5] as well as English Literary Renaissance, Representations, Modern Philology, the Southwest Review and Raritan.[6]

Works

  • Dolven, Jeff (2007). Scenes of Instruction in Renaissance Romance. Chicago, Illinois, U.S.: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 9780226155364. OCLC 928978642.
  • Dolven, Jeff (2013). Speculative Music: Poems. Louisville, Kentucky: Sarabande Books. ISBN 9781936747580. OCLC 812258745.
  • Dolven, Jeff (2017). Senses of Style: Poetry Before Interpretation. Chicago, Illinois, U.S.: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 9780226517087. OCLC 975443565.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Elite Educators". Harvard Magazine. November–December 2002. Retrieved September 28, 2017.
  2. ↑ "RHODES SCHOLARS SELECTED FOR 1991". The New York Times. December 9, 1990. Retrieved September 28, 2017.
  3. ↑ "People in the Humanities Council: Behrman Professors". Humanities Council. Princeton University. Retrieved September 28, 2017.
  4. ↑ "Jeff Dolven". Department of English at Princeton. Princeton University. Retrieved September 28, 2017.
  5. ↑ "Jeff Dolven". The Paris Review. Retrieved September 28, 2017.
  6. ↑ Howe, Sarah (July 2014). "Interview". Prac Crit. Retrieved September 28, 2017.


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