Dr. Steven P. Schneider, Professor

COURSES: Fall 2007

EDUCATION
Doctor of Philosophy - University of Iowa, 1986
Master of Fine Arts - University of Iowa, 1977
Bachelor of Arts - Syracuse University, 1973

AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION
American and Multicultural Literature
Poetry

PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS
Schneider, Steven P. Prairie Air Show. Texas City, Texas: Hurakan Publication, College of the Mainland, chapbook of poems, spring 2000.

Schneider, Steven P., ed. Complexities of Motion: New Essays on A.R. Ammons's Long Poems. Madison: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1999. Contributors include Helen Vendler, Willard Spiegelman, Marjorie Perloff, Alex Albright, Daniel Tobin, Steven P. Schneider, Robert Harrison, Roger Gilbert, Frederick Buell, Miriam Marty Clark, Stephen Cushman, James Hans, and William Harmon.

Schneider, Steven P. A.R. Ammons and The Poetics of Widening Scope. Madison: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1994.

Seiderman, Arthur, and Steven P. Schneider. The Athletic Eye. New York: Hearst Books, 1983.

Shear, Jeffrey, and Steven P. Schneider. Castles in the Sand. New York: Perigee/Putnam, 1982.

SCHOLARLY ARTICLES
“Richard Wilbur.” American Writers Series, Ed. Jay Parini, New York, Scribner’s, forthcoming.

“Defining the Canon of New Formalist Poetry.” Poetry Matters. The Poetry Center Newsletter. West Chester University. Number 2. February 2005.

“Jewish American Poetry: Poems, Commentary, and Reflections (review)”
Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies- Volume 23, Number 2, Winter 2005 127-129.

“A.R. Ammons’s ‘Defense of Poetry’”: Epoch, Cornell University, Ed. Roger Gilbert,
v 52,#3, 2004.

“Gary Soto,” Encyclopedia of American Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004.

"Brad Leithauser." Volume on New Formalism, Ed. Jonathan Barron and Bruce Meyer, Dictionary of Literary Biography, 2003.

“Review Essay of Marjorie Agosin,” Chasqui: Revista De Literatura Latinoamericana, Volume 31, Number 1, May 2002. 104-109.

"Louis Simpson." American Writers Series, Supplement VIII, Ed. Jay Parini,
New York: Scribner's, November 2001. 265-283.

"Poetry, Midrash, and Feminism." Tikkun Magazine, San Francisco, Summer 2001. 61-64.

“Contemporary Jewish-American Women’s Poetry”: Marge Piercy and Jacqueline Osherow.” Judaism. Spring 2001. 199-210.

"Prairie Reclamation Project: The Poetry of Twyla Hansen and Don Welch." A Prairie Mosaic. Ed. Susanne K. George and Steven Rothenberger. Kearney: University of Nebraska at Kearney, 2000. 152-157.

"The Long Poem as a Geological Force." Complexities of Motion: New Essays on
A.R. Ammons's Long Poems. Ed. Steven P. Schneider. Madison: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1999. 138-166.

"From the Wind to the Earth: An Interview with A.R. Ammons."
Complexities of Motion: New Essays on A.R. Ammons's Long Poems. Ed.
Steven P. Schneider. Madison: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1999. 325-349.

"Spotted Horses," "Faulkner and The Lost Generation." A William Faulkner Encyclopedia. Ed. Robert Hamblin and Charles Peek. New York: Greenwood Press, 1999. 254-257, 381-382.

"The Great Plains and Prairies," "Poets to Come," "The Prairie-Grass Dividing,"
"Louis Simpson." Walt Whitman: An Encyclopedia. Ed. J.R. LeMaster and Donald D. Kummings. New York: Garland, 1998. 259-260, 529, 539, 637.

"On Sifting Through A.R. Ammons's Garbage." North Carolina Literary Review 11.2 (1995): 175-182.

"Coming Home: An Interview With Rita Dove." The Iowa Review 19.3 (1989): 112-123.

"The Writing Institute: Professional Writing in a Liberal Art Context." Liberal Arts and Professional Growth: Conference Proceedings. Ed. David M. Atkinson and Janice C. Barker. Tacoma: Pacific Lutheran University, 1988.

"An Interview with Louis Simpson." The Wordsworth Circle 13. 2 (1982): 99-104.

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