Douglas Trevor

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Douglas Trevor
BornDouglas Trevor
1969 (age 54–55)
Pasadena, California, U.S.
OccupationNovelist, Short-story writer
Period1991—present
Notable worksGirls I Know (2013)

The Thin Tear in the Fabric of Space (2005)
The Poetics of Melancholy in Early Modern England (2004)

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Historicism, Psychoanalysis, and Early Modern Culture (2000)

Douglas Trevor (born 1969) [1] is an American author and academic. He received the Iowa Short Fiction Award [2] and was a finalist for the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award for his first book, a collection of stories entitled The Thin Tear in the Fabric of Space (2005). [3] His other books include The Poetics of Melancholy in Early Modern England (2004), the novel Girls I Know (2013), which won the 2013 Balcones Fiction Prize, and most recently the short story collection The Book of Wonders. He teaches in the English Department and Creative Writing Program at the University of Michigan, [4] and is a former director of the Helen Zell Writers' Program. [5]

Biography

Trevor was born in Pasadena, California. He moved to Denver, Colorado at the age of three.

He attended high school at the Kent Denver School and from there went to Princeton University, where he studied Comparative Literature and Creative Writing. In the Princeton Creative Writing Program, Trevor worked with Joyce Carol Oates, Russell Banks, and Toni Morrison. After graduating Phi Beta Kappa, Magna Cum Laude in 1992, Trevor went to France on a Rotary Fellowship to study the essayist Michel de Montaigne at the Université de Tours. After completing a year of study, he matriculated to Harvard University, where he began work on an English PhD. In 1999 he completed his PhD and took an assistant professorship in the English Department at the University of Iowa. In 2001 he was married. He received tenure in 2005. While at Iowa, Trevor also served for a time as the fiction editor of The Iowa Review (2000–2004). [1] In 2007 he took a tenured position at the University of Michigan. The father of two, he was divorced in 2010. [1]

Sexual Misconduct Allegations and Retaliation Finding

On January 11, 2021, The Michigan Daily published an article allegations of harassment, retaliation and intimidation against English professor|date = 12 January 2021}}. The University investigation found that Trevor was not guilty of sexual harassment.

Published work

Trevor's first published work in a national distributed journal was in The Ontario Review when he was twenty-four. For the next decade, he published short stories in journals and magazines such as Glimmer Train, The Paris Review, Epoch (American magazine), The New England Review, [6] and The Black Warrior Review. [1]

In 2004, Trevor's first book appeared. The Poetics of Melancholy in Early Modern England was a study of how writers such as John Donne, Edmund Spenser, and John Milton utilized the term melancholic to enhance their reputations as learned writers. [7] In 2005, Trevor published his first collection of stories, The Thin Tear in the Fabric of Space. Each of these nine stories circles around a different experience of grief following the death of a loved one. The collection is dedicated to the writer's sister, Jolee, who died unexpectedly in 1998. [8]

As a scholar of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English literature, Trevor has published widely on writers ranging from Thomas More to Milton, and was the co-editor (with Carla Mazzio) of Historicism, Psychoanalysis, and Early Modern Culture (2000). [9]

Following the publication of Girls I Know, Trevor returned to short fiction, publishing several stories in journals such as Ploughshares Solos and The Iowa Review. In 2017, Trevor's second collection of stories, The Book of Wonders, appeared. The nine stories that comprise this collection circle around characters in the midst of trying to reinvent themselves. Each of these characters is connected in one way or another to books, or to storytelling more generally.

Bibliography

Books
Short Stories and Novellas

Awards and honors

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References

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  2. 1 2 Recipients of the Iowa Short Fiction Award and John Simmons Short Fiction Awards — Iowa Center for the Book Archived October 16, 2014, at the Wayback Machine
  3. 1 2 Previous PEN/Hemingway Award Winners « PEN New England Archived February 11, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
  4. ↑ "U-M Department of English: People: Profile View: Douglas Trevor". Archived from the original on 2013-05-07. Retrieved 2013-03-19.
  5. ↑ Reporter, Julianna Morano Focal Point (12 January 2021). "Daily investigation finds allegations of harassment, retaliation and intimidation against English professor". The Michigan Daily. Retrieved 2021-01-12.
  6. 1 2 3 Douglas Trevor | University of Iowa Press
  7. ↑ The Poetics of Melancholy in Early Modern England – Douglas Trevor
  8. ↑ PAW January 25, 2006: Books
  9. 1 2 U-M Helen Zell Writers’ Program: Faculty profile: Douglas Trevor Archived May 6, 2013, at the Wayback Machine
  10. ↑ The Librarian
  11. ↑ "Fellows | Institute for the Humanities | University of Michigan". Archived from the original on 2013-04-29. Retrieved 2013-03-19.
  12. ↑ "Awards for Undergraduate Teaching | LSA Faculty & Staff | University of Michigan". Archived from the original on 2013-04-29. Retrieved 2013-03-19.
  13. ↑ Ucross Foundation :: PEN – Hemingway Fellows
  14. ↑ The O. Henry Prize Stories 2006 by Laura Furman, editor – Book – eBook – Random House
  15. ↑ Amazon.com: The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2005 (9780618570485): Dave Eggers, Beck: Books
  16. ↑ John C Gerber – Selected Readings
  17. ↑ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2006-09-01. Retrieved 2013-03-19.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  18. ↑ Trevor, Douglas – Contemporary Authors | HighBeam Research
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