Lesley Wheeler | |
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| Discipline | literary criticism |
| Institutions | Washington and Lee University |
| Website | https://lesleywheeler.org/about/ |
Lesley Wheeler is an American poet and literary scholar. She is the Henry S. Fox Professor of English at Washington and Lee University.
Wheeler was born in Baldwin,New York. She earned her bachelor's degree from Rutgers University and her Ph.D. from Princeton University. She is currently the Henry S. Fox Professor of English at Washington and Lee University in Lexington,Virginia.
In 2015,Wheeler joined the board of trustees of the Association of Writers &Writing Programs as the Mid Atlantic Regional Council Chair. [1]
Wheeler has published four books of poetry:Radioland (Barrow Street 2015), [2] The Receptionist and Other Tales (Aqueduct 2012), [3] Heterotopia (Barrow Street 2010), [4] and Heathen (C&R 2009). [5]
She has published two books of literary scholarship:Voicing American Poetry:Sound and Performance from the 1920s to the Present (Cornell UP 2008) [6] and The Poetics of Enclosure:American Women Poets from Dickinson to Dove (U of Tennessee P 2002) [7] She also co-edited the collection Letters to the World:Poems from Members of the Women's Poetry Listserv (Red Hen 2008). [8]
Her works have been reviewed in Poets’Quarterly, [9] Salamander, [10] Takahē, [11] Strange Horizons, [12] Poet Lore,Rattle, [13] Kestrel, [14] New Pages,Verse Wisconsin, [15] Yanaguana Literary Review, [16] Blackbird, [17] Mid-American Review,Calyx,Junctures,Prairie Schooner, [18] and other venues.
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