Information AboutJohn Irwin |
| CATEGORIES ABOUT JOHN IRWIN | |
| american academics | |
| rice university alumni | |
| johns hopkins university faculty | |
| living people | |
| 1940 births | |
|
BACKGROUND Professor Irwin received his M.A. and Ph.D. in English from Rice University in 1970 and began teaching as an assistant professor in the English department at Johns Hopkins University in 1970, where he continued until 1974 when he left to become the editor of The Georgia Review at the University Of Georgia . Professor Irwin returned to Johns Hopkins University as professor and chairman of The Writing Seminars department. He subsequently accepted a joint appointment in the English department and received an endowed chair, the Decker Professorship in the Humanities, in 1984 . PUBLICATIONS His first book of , and this was soon followed by his first book of Poem s, ''The Heisenberq Variations'', under his pen name John Bricuth, published by the University of Georgia Press in 1976 . In for the best scholarly book in the humanities published in 1994 and also won the Aldo Scaglione Prize in comparative literature from the Modern Language Association for the best scholarly book published in the field of comparative literature that year. In 1996 , Irwin stepped down as chairman of the Writing Seminars after nineteen years but still continues as a professor in the Writing Seminars and in English, teaching full time and writing. In 1998 he published his long narrative poem ''Just Let Me Say This About That'', under his pen name John Bricuth, with the Overlook Press as the first volume in the Sewanee Writers' series. His latest book, a narrative poem published by Johns Hopkins University press in 2005, is titled ''As Long As It's Big''. |
|
|