Dr. David Caplan

Contact Information

Office: Sturges 203
Phone: 740-368-3593
E-mail: dmcaplan@owu.edu

Specialty

Poetry and Poetics, Twentieth-Century and Contemporary American Literature

Education

M.A., Ph.D., University of Virginia
M.F.A., University of Florida
B.A., Hobart College

Biography

Professor Caplan specializes in twentieth- and twentieth-first century American literature. His scholarly interests include poetics and contemporary poetry.  He published Questions of Possibility: Contemporary Poetry and Poetic Form (Oxford University Press 2004; paperback 2006) and Poetic Form: An Introduction (Longman, 2006). He serves as a contributing editor to the Virginia Quarterly Review and Pleiades: A Journal of New Writing, and an affiliated researcher (Chercheur Affilié) at the Centre Interdisciplinaire de Poétique Appliquée at the University of Liège where he was a Fulbright lecturer. His current projects include Rhyme's Challenge (under contract to Oxford University Press) and In the World He Created According to His Will (poems) (forthcoming, the University of Georgia Press / VQR Poetry Series).

Courses Taught

ENG 105, Freshman Writing Seminar
ENG 226, American Images
ENG 316, Writing Poetry
ENG 372, Modern American Literature
ENG 374, Contemporary American Literature
ENG 480, Advanced Creative Writing

Major Publications

Questions of Possibility: Contemporary Poetry and Poetic Form (Oxford University Press, 2004; paperback edition, 2006)

          reviews of Questions of Possibility: Contemporary Poetry and Poetic Form
               Modernism / Modernity
               Essays in Criticism
               American Literary History

Poetic Form: An Introduction (Pearson Longman, 2006)

Rhyme’s Challenge (under contract, Oxford University Press)

In the World He Created According to His Will (poems) (University of Georgia Press / VQR Poetry Series, forthcoming).

Articles and poems in Virginia Quarterly Review, New Literary History, and Antioch Review, as well as in many edited collections of essays.

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