Comparative Literature

Steven’s undergraduate work was done in Ancient Greek and Latin at the University of North Carolina at Asheville (B.A. in Classics, 2011).  Other languages worked with: English, French, Old Occitan. His research focuses on translation, Modernism, classical reception, meter (especially Greek choral meters and "vers libre"), the 20^th-century so-called "New American Poetry" (e.g. the work of Charles Olson, Robert Duncan, Denise Levertov, Amiri Baraka, etc.), myth, and the Romantic and neo-Romantic chamber play.  Courses taught: the Fiction of Relationship; Civilization and Its Discontents; Literature and Medicine; Introduction to Scandinavian Literature. At present he’s at work on a descriptive bibliography of the works of the neglected American poet Ronald Johnson, a project meant to serve as a first step in creating a critical edition of, and commentary on, Johnson's epic poem ARK.

Education:

B.A. in Classics, University of North Carolina at Asheville, 2011

Languages:

Ancient Greek, Latin, French (intermediate), Old Occitan (intermediate), German (beginning)