Janet McAdams joined the Kenyon faculty as the first Robert P. Hubbard Professor of Poetry, after having taught at the University of Oklahoma. Her courses at Kenyon are grounded in cross-cultural poetics and include American Indian literature and poetry writing. Her poetry collection, The Island of Lost Luggage, won a 2001 American Book Award. Her second collection, Feral, was published by Salt in 2007. With Geary Hobson and Kathryn Walkiewicz (Kenyon '03), she is co-editing the anthology, The People Who Stayed: Southeastern Indian Writing after the Removal (University of Oklahoma Press, in press). In 2002, she was named "Mentor of the Year" by the Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers. She founded and serves as chief editor of the Earthworks Book Series of Native American Poetry. Her webpage is http://janetmcadams.org.

Education

Ph.D. Emory University
M.F.A. University of Alabama

Selected Publications

The Island of Lost Luggage. University of Arizona Press, 2000.

"Histories of the World: New Books by Native American Women Poets," Women's Review of Books, July 2000.

"Carter Revard's Angled Mirrors," in Speak to Me Words: Essays on Contemporary American Indian Poetry. Eds. Janice Gould and Dean Rader, University of Arizona Press, 2003, in press.

Courses Taught

English 103/104 Theft and Imitation
English 201 Introduction to Poetry Writing
English 301 Advanced Poetry Workshop
English 200 Introduction to Fiction Writing
English 283 Introduction to American Indian Literature