Prof. Margaret Harper
Responsibilities
- Glucksman Chair in Contemporary Writing in English
Research interests:
Margaret Harper studies and teaches Irish and American literature of the long twentieth century, modernisms, modern and contemporary poetry, and transnational feminist theory. She’s a specialist in the occult life and work of W. B. Yeats and has written extensively about the mediumistic collaboration between Yeats and his wife George Hyde Lees, as well as editing scholarly editions of the manuscripts and philosophical book A Vision. She has supervised numerous PhD dissertations and MA theses.
Academic background:
B.A. summa cum laude, Classics and English, Florida State University, 1978
M.A., English, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1981
Ph.D., English, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1986
Selected Recent Publications
Wisdom of Two: The Spiritual and Literary Collaboration of George and W. B. Yeats. Oxford, 2006.
(Honorable Mention, 2006 Robert Rhodes Prize for Books on Literature of the American Conference for Irish Studies)
A Vision (1925), Volume 13 of The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats, co-edited with Catherine Paul. Scribner, 2008.
Yeats’s “Vision” Papers, Volume 4, co-edited with George Mills Harper. Palgrave, 2001.
“‘The clock has run down and must be wound up again’: A Vision in Time.” Yeats and Afterwords, ed. Marjorie Howes and Joseph Valente. Johns Hopkins (forthcoming 2011).
“‘a form created by passion to unite us to ourselves’: The Masks of Pizzorno and Yeats.” International Political Anthropology 3 (2011): 191–200.
“‘The Real Thing’: Ní Chuilleanáin and Mattering Bodies,” Irish Women Writers: New Critical Perspectives, ed. Elke D’hoker, Raphaël Ingelbien, and Hedwig Schwall. Peter Lang, 2011.
“Flesh and Bones: Anne Enright’s The Gathering.” South Carolina Review 43 (2010): 74–87.
“George Yeats.” W. B. Yeats in Context, ed. David Holdeman and Ben Levitas. Cambridge, 2010: 158–66.
“‘how else could the god have come to us’?: Yeatsian Masks, Modernity, and the Sacred.” Nordic Irish Studies 6 (2007): 57–72.
“Yeats and the Occult.” The Cambridge Companion to W. B. Yeats, ed. John Kelly and Marjorie Howes. Cambridge, 2005. 144–66.