Wendy Stallard Flory

Wendy Stallard Flory has a B.A. Hons. in English from Bedford College of the University of London and a Ph.D. in American Literature from the University of Texas at Austin. She teaches graduate courses on Modern American Poetry and on Contemporary Poetry. Her publications include two books with Yale University Press (A Record of Struggle: Ezra Pound and The Cantos and The American Ezra Pound); the Ezra Pound entry in DLB-45; a Cambridge Companion essay, “Pound and Antisemitism;” “Confucius Against Confusion” (in Ezra Pound and China). Essays in collections are: on Pierre’s Isabel (in Melville and Women), on Moby-Dick (in Ungraspable Phantom) on Typee and W. S. Merwin’s The Folding Cliffs (in Whole Oceans Away) and on American Modernist Poetry and China’s New Confucianism (published in Shanghai, in Chinese). Her completed book manuscript, “Inside Stories: into the Depths of the American Romance,” has chapters on works by Poe, Melville, Hawthorne, Henry James, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Sendak, and Morrison. She is working on a companion volume, “Inside Stories/2: Romance Characters in the Ruins of Cultures.” Recent journal articles are “Aranda’s Skeletonizing in ‘Benito Cereno:’ Its Medieval Provenance [and] Melville’s Response to New World Slavery,” and “The Double Life of Flannery O’Connor’s Misfit [and] a New Perspective on American Romance Characterization” (forthcoming). Among her other research interests are Holocaust documents and the psychology of persecution.