Ed Madden

Associate Professor

Associate Director/Undergraduate Advisor in Women's Studies

English Office: 518 Humanities Office Building

______(803) 777-2171

Women's Studies Office: 301 Flinn Hall

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maddene@mailbox.sc.edu

Education

Ph.D., University of Texas, 1994

Specialization Areas

• Twentieth-Century British Poetry
• Gender Studies / Gay and Lesbian Studies
• Irish Literature
• Creative Writing

Recent Courses

See Course Descriptions for detailed information.

• ENGL 438C Irish Writers
• WOST 499 Community Service Internship
• ENGL 566M Topics in American Film: Gender, Sex, Society and Film
• ENGL 729 British Poetry Since 1900
• ENGL 439V / WOST 430V Gay and Lesbian Literature
• ENGL 283 Themes in British Writing:  Love, Loss, and Community in British Literature
  

Current Research Project(s)

This year I’m completing edits on three books, all due out early 2008:  Tiresian Poetics, a study of modernist literature and sexual identity; Signals, a collection of poems which won the SC Poetry Book Prize; and Genders and Geographies in Irish Studies, a collection of essays I’m co-editing with Marti Lee.  As these near publication, I’ve begun work on two other projects.  The first is an anthology of poems based in the Abramic tradition—poems about the biblical figures of Abraham, Sarah, Hagar, Ishmael, and Isaac.  I’m editing the collection with D’Arcy Randall of the University of Texas.  The second is a study of marginal masculinities and gay identity in Irish literature and culture.

Publications

Books (forthcoming)

Tiresian Poetics: Modernism, Sexuality, Voice 1888-2001.  Madison, NJ:  Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2008.

Signals.  Winner of the 2007 SC Poetry Book Prize.  Columbia SC: University of South Carolina Press, 2008.

Geographies and Genders in Irish Studies, collection of essays based on the 2006 American Conference for Irish Studies at USC, co-edited with Marti Lee.  Cambridge Scholars Press, 2008.

Articles (recent and selected)

“The Anus of Tiresias: Sodomy, Alchemy, Metamorphosis,” French Literature Series 34 (2007):  113-127.

“Penetrating Matthew Arnold.”  In Michael Field and Their World.  Margaret D. Stetz and Cheryl Wilson, eds.  High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire: Rivendale Press, 2007.  83-95

“Spectral Youth: Gay Literature, Irish Studies, Queer Theories.”  Foilsiú: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Irish Studies 4.1 (spring 2004): 95-108.

“Gospels of Inversion: Literature, Scripture, Sexology.”  In Divine Aporia: Postmodern Conversations about the Other.  John Hawley, ed.  Lewisburg PA:  Bucknell University Press, 2000.  74-103.

“The Language of the Graveyard: Polemicizing the Poetic in Tony Harrison’s ‘V’.”  In Caverns of Night: Coal Mines in Art, Literature, and Film.  William Thesing, ed.  Columbia SC: University of South Carolina Press, 2000.  126-151.

“Say It With Flowers: The Poetry of Marc-André Raffalovich,” College Literature 24.1 (Feb 1997):  11-27.

“The Well of Loneliness, or The Gospel According to Radclyffe Hall,” The Journal of Homosexuality 33.3-4 (winter 1997):  163-186.  Reprinted in Reclaiming the Sacred: The Bible in Gay and Lesbian Culture.  Raymond-Jean Frontain, ed.  Binghamton NY: Haworth Press, 1997.  163-186.

“Against Transcendence: AIDS and the Elegy,” Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review no. 3 (fall 1993): 81-93.

Poems (recent and selected)

 “Sacrifice,” selected for Best New Poets 2007.  Natasha Trethewey, ed.  Meridian with University of Virginia press, 2007.

“Sacrifice” and “Aisling,” in The Book of Irish American Poetry from the Eighteenth Century to the Present.  Daniel Tobin, ed.  Notre Dame: Notre Dame University Press, 2007.  836-837.

“Sunday morning, Wadmalaw,” in The Seagull Reader: Poems, 2nd ed.  Joseph Kelly, ed.  New York: W. W. Norton, 2007.

“Light,” “Story,” and “Cabin Near Caesar’s Head,” in The Southern Poetry Anthology: South Carolina.  Stephen Gardner and William Wright, eds.  Huntsville TX: Texas Review Press, 2007.

“Viscous,” The Gay and Lesbian Review, Worldwide 14.3 (May-June 2007): 24.

“Flaneur,” White Crane: Gay Wisdom and Culture no 71 (winter 2006-2007): 18.

“Amagon, Arkansas,” Arkansas Review: A Journal of Delta Studies 37.3 (Dec 2006): 172-173.

“Jewels of Opar,” Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review no 27 (fall/winter 2006): 40.

 “Auction” and “Postcard: Michelangelo’s Creation of Eve,” Southern Humanities Review 40.4 (fall 2006): 383-384.

“Molasses,” South Carolina Review 39.1 (fall 2006): 112-113.

“Light,” Los Angeles Review no 2 (2005): 185.

 “Early morning, fortieth birthday,” “Red castor bean,” “Sexual history, age 8,” and “After a seminar on the historical Jesus,” in A Millenial Sampler of South Carolina Poetry.  Gilbert Allen and William Rogers, eds.  Greenville, SC: Ninety-Six Press, 2005.  129-131.

“Holy Thursday,” “Ghazal,” and “Early morning, fortieth birthday,” The Recorder: Journal of the American Irish Historical Society 17.1 (summer 2004): 112-114.

“Sexual History, Age 8,” Solo: A Journal of Poetry no. 7 (2004): 68.

“Arse Poetica” and “Speaking the Same Tongue,” The James White Review no. 53 / 14.3 (fall 1997):  4, 5.

“Frog Prince,” “Passing,” and “On Semen,” in Gents, Bad Boys, and Barbarians:  New Gay Male Poetry.  Rudy Kikel, ed.  Boston:  Alyson Publications, 1994.  136-140.

Essays and Popular Press (recent and selected)

“The Grounds On Which We Meet: Friendship and Possibility.”  In On the Meaning of Friendship Between Gay Men.  Andrew Gottlieb, ed.  Binghamton NY: Haworth Press, 2008 (forthcoming).

“About Time: Meeting My Family Again in Room 207,” Free Times, 18 April 2007: 15.

“Words for Things: A Sex Education” [memoir], Rainbow Radio, 11 Feb 2007.  [Online at www.RainbowRadioSC.com.]

“Real Effects of the ‘Gay Marriage’ Amendment,” The State (Columbia SC), 21 Nov 2006.

“Gay Bridal Showers” [commentary on same-sex marriage activism], All Things Considered, National Public Radio, broadcast 29 March 2004.  [Online at http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1800343.]  Originally published as “Queer Eye for the Straight Bride,” Free Times 25 Feb 2004: 10.

“June 26: The Day South Carolina Was Changed” [on the death of Strom Thurmond and the Supreme Court decision on sodomy laws], Free Times 2 July 2003:  4.  Reprinted on CommonDreams.org.

“Entertaining Angels” [memoir, on growing up in rural Arkansas].  In Uncommon Threads: Reading and Writing about Contemporary America.  Robert Newman, Jean Bohner, and Melissa Carol Johnson, eds.  New York: Longman, 2003.  161-172.

“Confederacies of Desire” [essay on gay men and the Confederate flag controversy], The Gay and Lesbian Review, Worldwide 8.3 (May-June 2001): 31-33.