About

Carol Anne Muske-Dukes

Professor of English

Contact Information
E-mail: carolmd@usc.edu
Phone: (213) 740-2824
Office: THH 409

 

Education
B.A. English, Creighton University, 1/1967
M.A. English, California State University, San Francisco, 1/1970
 

Description of Research

Summary Statement of Research Interests
Professor Muske-Duke studies poetry writing, fiction writing, and literary criticism. She is a poet, fiction writer, critic and reviewer for the New York Times Book Review and the Los Angeles Times Book Review, where she writes a regular poetry column called Poets Corner. She has written seven books of poems, three novels, and two essay collections. Her most recent collection is titled Married to the Icepick Killer: A Poet in Hollywood and was listed in the San Francisco Chronicle's Top 100 Books of 2002. Her work has appeared in numerous publications, including Paris Review, The New Yorker, New York Times, The Nation, The Yale Review, The American Poetry Review and The Kenyon Review.
 

Honors and Awards
Co-Curator - Poetry Program – sponsored by ARTRAIN. A national project – with lead curator, Eric Fischl – A "moving museum" of contemporary art works (since 9/11) by major artists (Chuck Close, Cindy Sherman, etc.) with National Board (Mary Boone, Steve Martin, Bob Kerrey) -- along with poetry readings, a "national renga", poetry troubadours, etc. -- traveling to over 40 cities across the U.S., including Los Angeles , 11/2008-  
Appointed Poet Laureate, State of California, by order of the Governor’s Office, Fall 2008   
Presentation of Carol Muske-Dukes as Poet Laureate by USC President Steven Sample at USC v. Notre Dame football game, Fall 2008   
Judge, 2008 L.A. Times Book Prize, 2007-2008   
WriteGirl Bold Ink Award (other honorees -- Diablo Cody, Callie Khouri, Mona Simpson, etc.) at Grammy Center, Spring 2007   
The Sidney Harmon Distinguished Writer-in-Residence at Baruch College, NYC, Spring 2006   
Chapin Award, from Columbia University, Graduate Writing Program, for body of work, 2004-2005   
WRITERS AT WORK Award, Poem chosen for postcard reproduction, 2004-2005   
Seattle Arts & Lectures Award, Spring 2004   
'Sparrow' listed as Notable Book by the New Yorker, 2003  
Chapin Award for Poetry from Columbia University School of the Arts for Sparrow, 2003  
National Book Award Nomination for Sparrow, 2003  
Yale Review's Best Poems of the Year Award for Sparrow, 2003  
Witter-Bynner Fellowship awarded by the Library of Congress, 1997-1998  
LA Times Book Prize Finalist, 1997  
USC Phi Kappa Phi Faculty Recognition Award, 1993  
USC Raubenheimer Outstanding Junior Faculty Award, 1991  
Fellow (or Equivalent) of National Society in Discipline, National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, 1984  
Guggenheim Fellowship Recipient, 1981  
Castagola Award (Poetry Society of America), 1979  
 

Service to the Profession

Editorships and Editorial Boards
Assistant Editor, Antaeus, 1975-1981  
 
 
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