Melita Schaum, Ph.D.
Biography and Education
Education
Ph.D. English/Critical Theory, University of Notre Dame, 1984
M.F.A. English/Creative Writing, Stanford University, 1980
Selected Publications
Books:
A Sinner of Memory : Essays (East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2004.)
Wallace Stevens and the Critical Schools (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1988). Winner: Elizabeth Agee Prize for American Literary Studies (Re-issued by University of Alabama Press, 2004)
Wallace Stevens and the Feminine (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1993)
Scholarly Articles:
"Erasing Angel": The Lucifer - Trickster Figure in Flannery O'Connor's Short Fiction." The Southern Literary Journal, v. 33, no. 1 (Fall 200).
"Just Looking": Class, Desire and the Consuming Vision in T.S. Eliot's 'In The Department Store' " Journal of Modern Literature XIII, 1 (Summer 2000).
"The Grammar of the Visual: Alvin L. Coburn, Ezra Pound, and the Eastern Aesthetic in Modernist Photography and Poetry." Paideuma XXIV, 2-3 (Fall/Winter 1995).