Mary Kate Azcuy, D.Litt.
Associate Professor
Graduate Faculty
Wilson Annex 504
732-571-3618
Spring 2012
Office Hours
- Tuesday and Friday, 12:50 - 2:20 p.m.
Education
- D.Litt., Drew University
- M.A., New York University
- B.A., Monmouth University
Research Interest
Dr. Azcuy’s research interests include poetry by contemporary American poets Louise Glück and Mary Oliver, feminism, critical theory, classical mythology, and creative writing.
SPRING 2012 Courses
- EN-202 - Literature II
- EN 502 – Seminar: Literary Research
Courses Regularly
Taught
- EN 201 – Literature I
- EN 202 – Literature II
- EN 207 – American Literature I
- EN 208 – American Literature II
- EN 372 – Contemporary American Literature
- EN 398 – Special Topics: Postmodern Literature
- EN 491 – Seminar in English
- EN 502 -- Seminar in Literary Research
- EN 542 – Contemporary American/British Literature
- EN 571 – Modern American Literature
Publications
In 2009 Dr. Azcuy published the book chapter “Louise Glück’s twenty-first century ‘Persephone the Wanderer’: Redefining Earth’s Dominion” in the collection Forces of Nature, edited by Precious McKenzie Stearns and Bernadette H. Hyner, published by Cambridge Press.
Dr. Azcuy presented research papers at several conferences: “Virgilian connections to Louise Glück’s Aeneidian Underworld, Averno” at the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association panel “The Interpretation of Greek Myths”; “Post-confessional Portraits: Louise Glück’s ‘Proofs & Theories: Essays on Poetry” on the “Poets and Poetry” panel at the Congrès de la société des anglicistes at Université Bordeaux 3.
In December 2010 she presented research on Louise Glück at the Sorbonne Nouvelle, Université of
Paris 3.
Additionally, Dr. Azcuy published poems and a dialogue with The Exquisite Corpse, two poems with This Broken Shore, as well as poems in Proteus and Crossroads: A Southern Culture Annual. In July 2010 she was awarded a poetry residence, AIRIE fellowship, in the Florida Everglades National Park.
