Michael Tracy Thurston
Neilson Library 2/15, x3385, mthursto@email.smith.edu
Michael Thurston is an associate professor of English. He teaches courses on American poetry, modern British and Irish poetry, and American literature from its beginnings to the present. He is the author of Making Something Happen: American Political Poetry Between the World Wars (University of North Carolina Press, 2001), of essays on Langston Hughes, Muriel Rukeyser, Robert Lowell, Eavan Boland, Gillian Clarke, and Ernest Hemingway, as well as numerous reviews of academic studies. He co-edited (with Jani Scandura) Modernism, Inc.: Body, Memory, Capital, a collection of essays on modern American culture (NYU Press, 2001). His reviews of contemporary poetry have appeared in Indiana Review, Kenyon Review, Yale Review, and elsewhere. He is currently at work on "Going to Hell," a book about the descent into the underworld in twentieth-century poetry.