LAURENCE GOLDSTEIN

3155 Angell Hall
Department of English Language & Literature
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1003
email: lgoldste@umich.edu

I was born in Los Angeles in 1943, received a B.A. from UCLA in 1965 and a Ph.D. from Brown in 1970. I have taught at the University of Michigan since 1970. Since 1977 I have been the editor of Michigan Quarterly Review, the University’s scholarly and literary journal.

I have published three books of literary criticism: Ruins and Empire: The Evolution of a Theme in Augustan and Romantic Literature (1977), The Flying Machine and Modern Literature (1986), and The American Poet at the Movies: A Critical History (1994).

I have also published three books of poetry: Altamira (1978), The Three Gardens (1987), and Cold Reading (1995).

A sample poem, a memorial tribute to Alfred Hitchcock derived in form and content from Baudelaire’s lament for Don Juan.

In addition I have edited or coedited six books, including The Automobile and American Culture (with David L. Lewis), The Female Body: Figures, Styles, Speculations (1992), The Male Body: Features, Destinies, Exposures (1994), and most recently, The Movies: Texts, Receptions, Exposures (with Ira Konigsberg, 1996). Click here for a complete bibliography.

I teach modern and contemporary poetry, verse-writing, and a variety of senior seminars: e.g., in winter 1996, "Hollywood and Visual Culture", and in winter 1997, "The Country and the City as Literary Themes". In the fall of 2000 I will offer a Major Authors course in the fiction of William Faulkner and the poetry of Robert Hayden.