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Skidmore College
English Department
Margaret Greaves

Maggie Greaves

Associate Professor

B.A., Agnes Scott College
Ph.D., Emory University 

Office: Palamountain 309
Phone: (518) 580-5191
Email: mgreaves@skidmore.edu

Research Interests:

  • Poetry and poetics
  • Cultural histories of science
  • History of emotion
  • Poetry and popular culture
  • Gender studies

Courses Taught:

  • EN 105: Writing Outer Space
  • EN 110: Introduction to Literary Studies
  • EN 213: Poetry
  • EN 229: Literature and the Cosmos
  • EN 282: Introduction to Poetry Writing
  • EN 313: Modern Poetry
  • EN 314: Contemporary Poetry
  • EN 363: Confessional Poetry

Selected Publications:

  • Lyric Poetry and Space Exploration from Einstein to the Present (forthcoming from Oxford University Press, 2023)
  • 鈥溾榁ast and Unreadable鈥: Tracy K. Smith, Astronomy, and Lyric Opacity in Contemporary Poetry.鈥 Contemporary Literature 61.1 (Spring 2020): 1-31.
  • 鈥淣ostalgic Forms: Agha Shahid Ali, Space Age Poetry, and the Cold War Planet.鈥 College Literature 48.3 (Summer 2021): 341-373.
  • 鈥淧unishing the Lyric: Seamus Heaney and the Poetics of a Communal Europe.鈥 Eire/Ireland 51.3-4 (Fall/Winter 2016): 217-43.
  • 鈥淭he Spanish Copla in T.S. Eliot鈥檚 鈥楲andscapes鈥.鈥 Journal of Modern Literature 37.4 (Summer 2014): 130-142.
  • 鈥淪eamus Heaney and Eastern European Poetry.鈥 In Seamus Heaneyin Context. Ed. Geraldine Higgins. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, forthcoming.