Emerging Perspectives in H.D.’s
Hellenic Modernity and the Future of New Modernist Studies
INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM
Hilda Doolittle (H.D.)
Τhe American Modernist poet and author H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) (1886-1961) engaged with the Hellenic world, classical Greek literature, mythology, ancient religion and classical receptions.
Keynote speakers
Susan McCabe
Susan McCabe is a professor at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, teaching poetics, modernism, ecology, and creative writing. She is a past President of the Mondernist Studies Association. She has received a Fulbright, a residential fellowship at American Academy in Berlin as well as being a fellow at Stanford’s Humanities Center in 2016. She has published two books of poetry, one a Lambda Literary finalist, Swirl, the other her award-winning Descartes’ Nightmare (University of Utah Press, 2008), two critical books, Elizabeth Bishop: Her Poetics of Loss, and Cinematic Modernism. She has most recently published a dual bi-biography, H.D & Bryher: An Untold Love Story of Modernism (Oxford, November 2021). She has directed the PhD program in Creative Writing at USC, and is currently working on a book of poems, I Woke a Lake as well as a lyric long essay, The Poetics of Breath. Her poetry reviews have appeared recently in Los Angeles Review of Books and Denver Quarterly, among other venues. She has also written an introduction for the reprint of Bryher’s world-war II set Beowulf in 2021.
Demetres Tryphonopoulos
Dean & Executive Officer, Augustana
Faculty, University of Alberta
Professor, Fine Arts and Humanities
Department, Augustana, University of Alberta
Adjunct Professor, Dept. of English
and Film, University of Alberta
Adjunct Professor, Dept. of English
and Creative Writing, UNB
GDFP Fellow, Aristotle Univerity,
Thessaloniki, Greece
Secretary, Ezra Pound Society
For the past thirty-five years, Dr.
Tryphonopoulos has been teaching and researching in twentieth-century American
Literature with a focus on difficult modernist texts (especially long poems),
often approaching them through the lenses of poetics, translation theory and
practice, prosody and rhetoric, and
editorial theory and textual criticism.
Over his academic career, he has
attended more than 130 conferences in the U.S., Canada, England, France, Italy,
and Greece. His essays on Ezra Pound, H.D. and other
Anglo-American modernist poets have appeared in North American and European
journals. He has contributed to many collections of essays published in the
U.S., Italy, France and Greece. As well,
he is the author, editor, co-editor, or translator of sixteen
volumes, including The Celestial Tradition: A Study of Ezra Pound’s “The
Cantos” (WLUP, 1992); “I Cease Not to Yowl”:
Pound’s Letters to Olivia Rossetti Agresti (U. of
Illinois P, 1998); an annotated edition of H.D. (writing as Delia Alton),
Majic Ring (UP of Florida, 2009); a translation
and performance text for Iakovos Kambanellis’ play The Courtyard of Miracles
(performed at the Richard
Stockton College’s School of Arts and Humanities, February 18-12, 2015);
and Approaches to
Teaching Pound’s Poetry and Prose (PMLA, 2021). He
is in the process of completing a second Approaches volume: Approaches to
Teaching Cavafy Poetry (PMLA, 2023). He considers his most important
achievement to be the establishment in the early 2000s of the so-called
“mod-squad,” a group of former and at the time current students and colleagues
that has been collaborating on a SSHRC-funded edition of H.D.’s late long poems.
Undated, unsourced photographs from H.D. Papers,
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University
Courtesy of the Schaffner Family Foundation and New Directions.
