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Carol Muske-Dukes

Professor of English

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

 

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

'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, 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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