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GSFS Advising

Miranda Hickman

Director,Institute for Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies
Professor, Department of English

Arts 140B
(514) 393-6918

Miranda Hickman
I work in transatlantic modernist studies and twentieth-century studies, with a focus on early twentieth-century poetry and experimental fiction, often through the lenses of gender and feminist studies, textual scholarship, and literary and cultural history. Another area of inquiry is the history of the discipline – and big tent – that we still call “English,” with an eye toward how such practices as criticism and “close reading” have been theorized in evolving ways as the field has developed. I am co-founder and director of thePoetry Mattersinitiative at ñ.

Recent work in feminist modernist studies has taken me to modernist classical reception—especially poet H.D.’s translations of Euripides; to pioneering film critic Iris Barry; to early twentieth-century critic Q.D. Leavis; and to early twentieth-century avant-garde artists Jessie Dismorr and Helen Saunders. I am author ofThe Geometry of Modernism(2005), author and editor ofOne Must Not Go Altogether with the Tide: The Letters of Ezra Pound and Stanley Nott(2011); coeditor (with J. McIntyre) ofRereading the New Criticism(2012), and coeditor (with L. Kozak) ofThe Classics in Modernist Translation(2019). Current work focuses on deep literacy and poetic attention, as well as on the female public intellectual in interwar Britain.

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