I am currently
collaborating with Massimo Bacigalupo and Anna Flügge (LMU Munich) on a project
titled “Letters from
the Cold War: The Correspondence of Ezra Pound and Eva Hesse, 1950-1960.” This
project focuses on the unpublished
correspondence of the controversial American poet Ezra Pound with Eva Hesse, the highly acclaimed German
translator of Pound, E.E. Cummings and Langston Hughes. The first phase of the Pound/Hesse
correspondence project (September 2014˗August 2015) was funded by a DAAD
postdoctoral fellowship and was jointly hosted by the Department of English and
American Studies at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and by the Bavarian American
Academy (BAA). I am also beginning work on a book tentatively titled Homo Legens: Modes and Moods of Reading.
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