| Rowan
Ricardo Phillips is a poet, critic, and translator. He is the author of
a book of poems, The Ground
(Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012), a book of criticism, When Blackness
Rhymes with Blackness (Dalkey Archive Press, 2010) and the first
translation from Catalan into English of Salvador Espriu’s collection
of short stories Ariadna in the Grotesque Labyrinth (Dalkey Archive Press, 2012). His poetry
has appeared in Granta, The
Kenyon Review, The New
Republic, The New Yorker, and The Paris Review among others. His translations of Catalan
literature have appeared in The Review of Contemporary Fiction, Best
European Fiction 2010, and Best European Fiction 2011. He holds a B.A.
from Swarthmore College and a Ph.D. from Brown University. He taught in
Harvard’s Program in History and Literature before joining the faculty
of Stony Brook’s Department of English and he has also taught at
Columbia’s Graduate School of the Arts. Currently, he is Associate
Professor of English at Stony Brook, Director of the Poetry Center and
Director of Graduate Studies. He lives in New York City and Barcelona. |
Rowan Ricardo Phillips
Associate
Professor. Ph.D. Brown University, 2003. Poetry, Translation,
African American and Caribbean Literature.
Selected Publications:
Poetry
- The Ground (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012)
Criticism
- When Blackness Rhymes with Blackness: Essays on African American Poetry (Dalkey Archive Press, 2010).
Translation
- Ariadne in the Grotesque Labyrinth (Dalkey Archive Press, 2012).