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Susan Vanderborg

Associate Professor

Office: 521 Humanities Office Building
(803) 777-2320
sjvander@mailbox.sc.edu

Education

Ph.D., Stanford University, 1996

Specialization Areas
  • 20th-century American poetry and
  • Postmodernist narrative
Recent Courses

See Course Descriptions for detailed information.

  • ENGL 761  Survey of 20th-C. British and American Poetry
Current Research Project(s)

articles on "book poems"--book-length poetic sequences that interrogate the epistemological concept of the book

Publications

"'The Breakdown of Order Now Assured': Johanna Drucker's Simulant Portrait." Forthcoming in Textual Practice, Spring 2004.

"A Tale of Two Keys: Rosmarie Waldrop's Poetics of the Book." How2, Fall 2002.

Paratextual Communities: American Avant-Garde Poetry since 1950. (Southern Illinois P, 2001)