Dr. Robert D. Schultz
Dr. Robert D. Schultz
John P. Fishwick Professor of English
Department: English
Office: 215 Miller Hall
Phone: 375-2365
schultz@roanoke.edu
Degrees:
B.A., Luther College
M.F.A., M.A., and Ph.D., Cornell University
Courses:
Homepage:
Research & Teaching Interests:
Creative Writing - Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction; Classical Greece; Literary Modernism; Contemporary American Literature; Film
Scholarly Activities:
Publications include a novel, The Madhouse Nudes (Simon & Schuster, 1997 and 2008), two collections of poetry, Winter in Eden (Loess Hills Books, 1997) and Vein Along the Fault (The Laueroc Press, 1979); short stories and memoir essays; essays on poetics; articles on Modern and comtemporary American poets, including Ezra Pound and Gary Snyder; and numerous reviews of contemporary American poetry.
Extracurricular:
Baseball, Flyfishing
Books:
We Were Pirates: A Torpedoman's Pacific War (forthcoming)
The Madhouse Nudes (a novel)
Winter in Eden (poems)
Vein Along the Fault (poems)
for information on works in progress visit www.robertschultz.us
Recent Publications:
A gallery of new poems by Robert Schultz and works by Vietnamese-American artist Binh Danh appear in the Winter 2009 issue of The Virginia Quarterly Review_. More new poems from _Ancestral Altars_, a work in progress, are forthcoming in _Subtropics_ and _The Northwest Review. For updates and public events, visit www.robertschultz.us
Distinctions:
National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship in Fiction; The Virginia Quarterly Review Emily Clark Balch Prize for Poetry; Cornell University Corson-Bishop Poetry Prize; Yale Younger Poets Prize, Finalist; Academy of American Poets Walt Whitman Award, Finalist; Featured Iowa Poet, Des Moines National Poetry Festival; Virginia Foundation for the Humanities Residency Fellowship; Artist-in-Residence, Luther College
Available as a Media resource for the following topics:
contemporary poetry, fiction, film
Willing to speak to professional, social or civic groups on:
contemporary poetry, fiction, film