Jacqueline Osherow
Professor, English
English
Languages & Communication Bldg
255 S Central Campus Dr Rm 3500
Salt Lake City, Ut 84112
Office: 3401 LNCO
Office Hours: Wednesday, 9:00 - 12:00
Office Phone: (801) 581-7947
Email:
Degrees:
1990 PhD English and American Literature and Language Princeton
1978 AB Magda cum Laude History and Literature Harvard-Radcliffe
Jacqueline Osherow is the author of five books of poetry. Osherow has been awarded the Witter Bynner Prize by the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, Fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Ingram Merrill Foundation and a number of prizes from the Poetry Society of America. Her work has appeared in many anthologies and journals, including Twentieth Century American Poetry, The Wadsworth Anthology of Poety and The Norton Anthology of Jewish-American Poetry, Best American Poetry (1995 and 1998), The New Breadloaf Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry, The New Yorker, Paris Review and many others. She is Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Utah.
Selected Publications:
The Hoopoe's Crown
(Book), 2005
Dead Men's Praise
(Book), 1999
With a Moon in Transit
(Book), 1996
Conversations with Survivors
(Book), 1993
Looking for Angels in New York
(Book), 1988
Current Courses
ENGL 5030-1 Studies In Poetry
Courses I Teach
ENGL 2030 Bible As Literature
ENGL 5030 Studies In Poetry
ENGL 5520 Poetry Workshop
ENGL 5900 Form & Theory
ENGL 7040 Poetry Workshop
ENGL 7460 Theory and Practice of Poetry
Awards
2002
Faculty Fellow Award - University of Utah
1999
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship - National Endowment for the Arts
1997
Guggenheim Fellowship in Poetry - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
1990
Witter Bynner Prize - American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters