Sally Connolly

Sally Connolly (born in 1976 in St Albans, England) is a British writer and academic.

Sally Connolly
Born 1976
St Albans, England
Nationality British, Irish
Occupation Academic, literary critic
Awards Kennedy Scholarship
Academic background
Education University College London
Harvard University
Alma mater University College London (BA, MA, PhD)
Academic work
Discipline Literary Criticism
Sub-discipline Poetry
Institutions University of Houston
Main interests Elegy, Prosody and Meter (poetry), Literary Representations of Disaster, Modernist Epic (literature), New Formalism, Poetic Influence.

Life

She went to St Albans School, Hertfordshire where she studied with the poet John Mole, and attended University College London and, as a Kennedy Scholar, Harvard University.[1] She studied for her doctorate under the supervision of the poet Mark Ford and at Harvard with Helen Vendler and Seamus Heaney. She has published widely on twentieth- and twenty-first century British, Irish and American Poetry.

She is Associate Professor of Contemporary Poetry in the Department of English Literature at The University of Houston. Her 2016 book Grief and Meter is the first in the field of elegy studies to consider elegies for poets as a significant elegiac subgenre, and she is currently working on a book about AIDS Elegy.[2]. She is a latter day practitioner of the school of close reading espoused by earlier literary critics such as Christopher Ricks.

She is a regular contributor to publications such as the Times Literary Supplement,[3] Poetry (magazine)[4] and The London Evening Standard.[5]

Stephanie Burt writes that Sally Connolly "has a sharp ear for how poetry sounds, for where it originates and where it ends up, and she’s in a good position to say, not just thanks to her knowledge of things Irish and Irish English and British English and American, but thanks to her knowledge about the guts of poems: past and present, early-career and deeply canonical, out-there and close to the heart, outspoken and close to the vest, get attention in Connolly’s personal, thoughtful, pellucid language. The Anglophone world needs more poetry critics so careful, so thoughtful, so able to speak their minds." [6]

Her brother, Pete Connolly, is a British professional skateboarder who holds the Guinness World Record for speed longboarding. In September 2017 he skated downhill at 91.17 mph.[7]

Selected Works


  • Ranches of Isolation: Transatlantic Poetry (Madhat Press, forthcoming 2018)[8]
  • "Transatlantic Poetics: An Autobiography", Plume Poetry, 2017[9]
  • "Two Genealogical Elegies for Seamus Heaney", Literary Imagination (Oxford University Press, 2017)
  • Grief and Meter: Elegies for Poets after Auden (University of Virginia Press, 2016)[10]
  • "Breaking Bread With the Dead: W. H. Auden, Seamus Heaney and Yeats's Influence", Yeats Annual 17, Palgrave MacMillan[11][12][13]

References

  1. ↑ "Full List of Kennedy Scholars".
  2. ↑ "Dr Sally Connolly".
  3. ↑ "Sally Connolly". TheTLS.
  4. ↑ "Author Page, Poetry (magazine)".
  5. ↑ "Author Page: London Evening Standard".
  6. ↑ "Stephanie Burt on Sally Connolly".
  7. ↑ "Pete Connolly World Record".
  8. ↑ Connolly, Sally. Ranches of Isolation: Transatlantic Poetry. MadHat Press. ISBN 978-1-941196-79-3.
  9. ↑ "Sally Connoly: Transatlantic Poetics: An Autobiography - Plume". Plume. 19 December 2017.
  10. ↑ Grief and Meter. University of Virginia Press. ISBN 0813938643.
  11. ↑ Yeats annual. No. 17, Influence and confluence. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-0-230-54689-9.
  12. ↑ "Book Reviews". The European Legacy (14:4): 473–507. 2009.
  13. ↑ "Of What is Past, or Passing, or To Come': Recent Yeats Scholarship". Modernism / modernity. 16:3: 609–614.


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