Karin Roffman
Karin Roffman has recently published the first biography of John Ashbery, The Songs We Know Best: John Ashbery’s Early Life (FSG, 2017), which was named one of the 100 notable books for 2017 by the New York Times. She also created a scholarly site and VR tour of John Ashbery’s home with the Yale Digital Humanities Lab. The site can be accessed at: http://vr.ashberyhouse.yale.edu
She has published articles in Raritan, Modern Fiction Studies, Artforum, Rain Taxi, Yale Review and others. Her first book, From the Modernist Annex: American Women Writers in Museums and Libraries (2010) won the University of Alabama Press’s American Literature Elizabeth Agee Manuscript Prize and subsequent publication. Currently a Senior Lecturer in Humanities, English and American Studies at Yale University, and the Associate Director of Public Humanities, she has previously taught at West Point and Bard College.
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- Candace Borders Yale
- Ryan Brasseaux Yale
- Marisa Brown Brown Public Humanities
- Jasmine Chu Brown Public Humanities
- Mary Marshall Clark Columbia
- Stacy M. Hartman CUNY
- Charlotte Hecht Yale
- Matthew Jacobson Yale
- Mark Krasovic Rutgers
- Meredith B. Linn Bard Graduate Center
- Steven Lubar Brown Public Humanities
- Seth Moglen Lehigh University
- Cheryl Nixon University of Massachusetts Boston
- Diane O’Donoghue Tufts
- Mary Rizzo Rutgers
- Karin Roffman Yale
- Katina Rogers CUNY
- Sylvia Ryerson Yale
- Susan Smulyan Brown Public Humanities
- Doris Sommer Harvard University
- Amy Starecheski Columbia
- Laura Troiano Rutgers
- Shana Weinberg Brown Public Humanities
- Laura Wexler Yale
- Catherine Whalen Bard Graduate Center