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Michael Coyle

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Michael Coyle

Professor of English

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English and Creative Writing
402 Lathrop Hall

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BA, Miami University
MA, University of Virginia
PhD, University of Virginia

 Modernist poetry, Victorian and Modernist intellectual prose, critical theory, jazz tradition and contemporary music

Modernist and Victorian poetry; critical theory; the Jazz Age

Books

  • Co-author with Roxana Preda, Dorothy Shakespear and The Cantos of Ezra Pound. The Abandoned Folio of XXVIII-LI. Clemson UP,  2026.
  • Co-author with Roxana Preda, Ezra Pound and the Career of Modernist Criticism. New York: Camden House Press, 2018.
  • Co-editor with Steven Yao, and contributor, Ezra Pound and Education (Orono: National Poetry Foundation paperback, 2012).
  • Co-editor with Debra Rae Cohen & Jane Lewty, Broadcasting Modernism (University of Florida Press, 2009); paperback, 2013.
  • Ed., Death of a Be-Bop Wife, by Grange Rutan (Redwood, NY: Cadence Books, 2007).
  • Ed., Ezra Pound and African American Modernism (Orono: National Poetry Foundation paperback, June 2001). A reprinting of the special issue of Paideuma with additional apparatus
  • Ezra Pound, Popular Genres, and the Discourse of Culture (College Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, June 1995).

Selected essays

  • “‘After Such Knowledge’: Eliot and the Question of the Public Intellectual,” in Joanna Rzepa and Jayme Stayer, eds, Companion to the Complete Prose of T. S. Eliot. Johns Hopkins, forthcoming 2025.
  • “Thresholds of Meaning in the Shakespear-Pound Third Folio,” in Global Pound, eds. Walter Baumann and John Gery, forthcoming Clemson UP 2026.
  • “A Fool for Beauty: Modernism and the Racial Semiotics of Crooning,” in Mike Borshuk, ed., Jazz and American Culture (Cambridge UP, 2024), 110-126.
  • “A Carthaginian Peace: Kenner, Watts and the Founding of Pound Studies,” in Walter Baumann, John Gery & David McKnight, eds., Cross-Cultural Ezra Pound: New Perspectives on His Work and Reception (Clemson UP, 2021), 187-202.
  • “‘They made me feel civilized’: the Martini as Modernist Culture,” in Stephen Schneider & Craig Owens, eds., The Year’s Work in Cocktail Culture (Indiana UP, 2021), 103-120.
  • “Ringing True: Poundian Translation and Poetic Music,” in The Classics in Modernist Translation, ed. Miranda Hickman & Lynn Kozak (Bloomsbury: 2019), 57-64.
  • “‘Afternoon’ at the British Museum,” in T. S. Eliot and the Arts, ed. Frances Dickey and John Morgenstern (Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2016), 36-50.“Pound and Race,” in Ezra Pound in Context, ed. Ira Nadel (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 2010), 407-418
  • “‘Fishing with the arid plain behind me’”: Difficulty, Deferral, and Form in The Waste Land, in A Companion to T. S. Eliot, ed. David Chinitz (Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009); 157-167
  • “Jazz Songbooks and Modernist Tradition,” an essay for the special issue of Genre: Forms of Discourse and Culture on Jazz, edited by Mark Osteen (Fall 2004), 65-83.
  • Editor, Raymond Williams & Modernism (Keywords, 2002)
  • “Hijacked Hits and Antic Authenticity,” in Rock over the Edge: Transformations of Popular Music, ed. Roger Beebee and Benjamin Saunders, introduction by Lawrence Grossberg (Durham: Duke University Press, 2002), 133-160.
  • "Eliot on the Air: 'Culture' and the Challenges of Mass Communication," in Time Present and Time Past: T.S. Eliot and Our Turning World, ed. J.S. Brooker (Macmillan, 1999)
  • "The European Radio Broadcasts of T.S. Eliot," (Miscellanea 20, 1999)
  • "A Present with Innumerable Pasts: Postmodernity and the Tracing of Modernist Origins" (Review, 1996)
  • "Organizing Organicism: J.A. Hobson and the Interregnum of Raymond Williams" (ELT, 1994)
  • "Determining Frontiers: T.S. Eliot's Framing of the Literary Essays of Ezra Pound" (Modern Language Quarterly, 1989)
  • "A Profounder Didacticism: Ruskin, Orage, and Pound's Reception of Social Credit" (Paideuma, 1988)

Others in American Literary Scholarship, ELH and The Dictionary of Literary Biography; reviews in American Literature, Ariel, ELT, Essays in Criticism, and Paideuma; regular contributions to Cadence: The Review of Blues, Jazz, & Creative Improvised Music