Joshua Adams
Joshua Adams studies literature and philosophy and serves on the poetry staff of Chicago Review. Particular interests include the relationship between bodily self-transformation and poetic practice, Futurism, Psychoanalysis, the Collège de Sociologie and the Oulipo.

Bobby Baird
Bobby Baird is a PhD student in the Divinity School. He is writing a dissertation on Dante, and his other interests include medieval theology, modern literature, and postmodern philosophy. He is the managing editor at Chicago Review.

Neil Chudgar
Neil Chudgar, a PhD student in English, studies the British Enlightenment (1660-1807) to trace the forgotten ways in which its poets tried to solve the problems of being human which its philosophers were articulating, and which still bother us in late-modern America.  He is interested in the history of sensation and perception; in poetry that works without poetic language; in Wordsworth; in kitsch; and, generally, in objects and our relations to them.  His work aims to recover a poetic and intellectual history in which immanence is preferred to transcendence, shallowness is preferred to depth, and touch is preferred to vision.  His own poetry has not been published.  He is an outgoing coordinator of the Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Cultures Workshop.

Eric Elshtain
Eric Elshtain, a PhD student in the Committee on the History of Culture and former poetry editor of the Chicago Review, works on the poetics of 18th and 19th century speculative science, and is interested in general about the intersection between poetry and science. He is also co-creator of the computer-generated poetry program Gnoetry, which can be seen at www.beardofbees.com.

Lee Glidewell
Lee Glidewell works on English and American poetry from roughly the first half of the 20th Century. Particular likes include Mina Loy, Louis Zukofsky, Ezra Pound, Basil Bunting and George Oppen. Currently planning a dissertation on Modernist love poetry. Other interests include Marxist critical theory and psychoanalysis.

Aidan Johnson
Aidan Johnson (aidan_johnson@fulbrightweb.org, PhD student, English) specializes in the poetics and ethics of Shakespearean tragedy, and particularly studies Shakespeare’s staging of tragic confrontation with moral philosophy and with concepts in Renaissance metaphysics.  He also studies the ethics of Montaigne as reimagined in the tragedies. Formerly an undergraduate student in French Literature and English at the University of Toronto and the Sorbonne, Aidan was selected for the essay prize in French Literature at the University of Toronto’s Victoria College for his work _Au fond du font de mémoire_, a study of the philosophy of mortality in Apolinnaire's Calligrammes picture-poetry.

Joshua Kotin
Twentieth-century and contemporary poetry, history and theory of poetry, artistic productivity, and aesthetics.  Currently editor of Chicago Review.

Jenny Ludwig
19th and 20th century poetry in English; Irish studies; cultural theory and aesthetics; land and landscape; technologies of reproduction; the intersection of poetic theory, institutions, and canons; history/criticism of lyric theory; poetry as a pedagogical tool; lyric formation of selves/citizens, esp. governmental interest in poetry as government.

Jett McAlister
Jett McAlister's interests include modern and contemporary poetry generally; more specifically, the long, book-length, multi-volume, or lifelong poem; the development of national poetries in Anglophone countries; institutions of poetry in the United States; queer poetics.  He has an MFA in poetry writing from the University of Virginia, and his poems have appeared in Crazyhorse, Texas Review, Sycamore Review, and elsewhere.

Bill Martin
Bill Martin is writing a dissertation on film comedy under state socialism in East Germany and Poland. He is also a translator and an Editor-at-Large for Chicago Review. Some of his poems have actually been published, most recently in Blatt 1:1.

Michael Meeuwis
I work on Victorian poetry and theatre, and more generally on pre-1900 English poetry.

Matthias Regan
Matthias Regan is the out-going Poetics workshop coordinator and works on 20th centuryAmerican poetry.

Michael Robbins
Michael Robbins studies modern & contemporary poetry & poetics, with particular attention to critical theory, animal rights, & lyric subjectivity. He serves as an associate editor of Chicago Review & has published poems in such journals as LIT, La Petite Zine, can we have our ball back?, & Court Green. He has not yet found any academic application for his love of hip-hop & science fiction.

Andrea Scott
I am interested primarily in postwar and post-1989 poetry in Germany and the United States. I served on the poetry editorial board of the Chicago Review before moving to New York as an exchange scholar of Columbia University. In addition to studying poetry, I write some when I can. My poetry has been published in The Denver Quarterly, Salt Hill, and The Mississippi Review, among others, and my short story in German, "Das wechselnde Ich” was published in the Langweile, an Utz Verlag anthology, last summer. I am currently working on a dissertation on cold war poetry in West Germany and the United States, 1945-1989.

Dustin Simpson
Dustin Simpson, a third year PhD student in Comparative Literature, studies modern(ist) poetry of the United States within a broader context that includes the UK, France, Latin America and the Caribbean.  He is interested in investigating modernist attempts at constructing poetic authority and the various sources of that authority, be they “local,” intellectual, cosmopolitan, primitivist/ethnographic, futuristic, unconscious, mystical, or religious.  Particular interests include Baudelaire, Whitman, Apollinaire, Cendrars, Eliot, Williams, and Césaire.  Also interested in dada, surrealism, and négritude as they relate to the above.

Hristomir Stanev
Hristomir Stanev's work on poetry/poetics is predominantly in non-English works. He is interested in analyzing, performing, and translating in English Eastern European poetry of the late Romantic period (1870s--1910s), particularly that of Bulgarian, Hungarian, and Transylvanian poets. At the present moment, he is adapting selected works of Endre Ady (perhaps the "deepest" Hungarian poet) to music.

Eirik Steinhoff
Eirik Steinhoff is writing a dissertation on 16th- and 17th-Century English poetry. He edited CHICAGO REVIEW from 2000 to 2005.

Nicholas Torrey
Philosophy and literature; 20th century experimental fiction; philosophy of language, the relationship of literary language to ordinary language; biblical hermeneutics/medieval exegesis and literary interpretation/ aesthetic theory; Joyce, Conrad, David Jones, Melville, Bishop, Stevens, the New Testament, and Anglo-Saxon poems and riddles.

Johanna Winant
Johanna Winant is working on a PhD in English.  She is interested in the fields of lyric poetry and poetics as well as 20th century literature.  She returns often to particular authors such as: Lowell, Bishop, Plath, Moore, Coleridge, Dickinson, Stevens, and Joyce.   She returns often to particular problems such as: the lyric speaker, figurative language, and aesthetic and epistemological questions about what a poem is, how it works, and what (if anything) we can learn from it.