Dr. Martha Ronk

	Email Phone          Office	ronk@oxy.edu x2806 Swan North 204
	2008-2009 Courses

The Irma and Jay Price Professor of English
Occidental College
1600 Campus Road
Los Angeles, California 90041
323 259 2806

Education
B.A. Wellesley College
Ph.D. Yale University

Areas:
Renaissance Studies, poet and fiction writer, modern literature,
editor Littoral Books Los Angeles, California

Publications Poetry and Fiction

In a Landscape of Having to Repeat, Omnidawn, 2004 Winner of the PEN USA 2005 award in poetry
Why/Why Not, University of California Press, 2003           
Displeasures of the Table, Green Integer, 2001
Eyetrouble, University of Georgia Press,1998
State of Mind, Sun & Moon Books, 1995
Desert Geometries, with artist Don Suggs, Littoral Books, 1992 Recent Terrains, photographs by Laurie Brown, poems by
    Martha Ronk, Center for American Places, Johns Hopkins
    Press, 2000         
Desire in LA, University of Georgia Press, 1990
Vertigo, selections, chapbook, A Rest Press, 2005
Quotidian, chapbook, a+bend books, 2000
Allegories chapbook with artist Tom Wudl, ML & NLF Books, 1998  Emblems, chapbook, Instress, 1998  

Journals: poems have appeared in APR, The Denver Quarterly, The Chicago Review, Talisman, Ribot, Arshile, Talisman, The Harvard Review, Rhizome, The Antioch Review, Sulfur, Oblek, Brief, Interim, New American Writing, Jubilat, Field, NER/BLQ, Temblor, Hambone, Bachy, Boxcar, The Massachusetts Review, The Southern Review, The Bennington Review, The Antioch Review, New Virginia Review, Crazy Horse, and others; and in the anthologies, Innovative Poetry in Southern California, ed. Douglas Messerli, Place as Purpose, Poetry from the Western States, Autry Museum, LA Exile: A Guide to Los Angeles Writing 1932-98, ed. Vangelisti, The Gertrude Stein Awards, ed. Messerli, Poetry Loves Poetry: Anthology of LA Poets; on-line poems in Conjunctions, Jacket.

Fiction has appeared in The Chicago Review, The Harvard Review, Hambone, Fence, Denver Quarterly, The Southern Review, American Letters and Commentary, and untitled.

Readings throughout the country in LA, Seattle, Providence, San Francisco, NY, Boston, Boise.

Publications Academic      
Desdemona’s Self-Presentation,” English Literary Renaissance
       (winter, 2005) 
Locating the Visual in As You Like It, Shakespeare Quarterly 52
       (2001)
Representations of Ophelia, Criticism 36 (1994)
Disjunction and Subjectivity in The Winter’s Tale, The Upstart
       Crow 16 (1996)
Viola’s [lack of] Patience: Twelfth Night, The Centennial Review
       37 (1993)
Narration as Usurpation: The Tempest, Assays, Carnegie Mellon
       Press (1992) 
Recasting Jealousy: A Reading of The Winter’s Tale, Literature and
       Psychology 36 (1990)
Embodied Morality: The Duchess of Malfi, Sexuality and Politics in
      Renaissance Drama, ed. Levin and Robertson, The Edwin Mellen
      Press, 1991
Learning by Talking: Conversation in As You Like It, Shakespeare
      Survey 40 (1988)
The Rhetoric of Consolation: Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Assays,
      Carnegie Mellon Press, 1982
The Mediating Muse of Paradise Lost, Nortre Dame English
       Journal 23 (1981)
The Allegory of the Secret: Memories of a Catholic Girlhood,
      Biography 4 (1981)
The Myth of the Fall, a description of autobiography, Genre 12
      (1979)
Structural Patterns in The Golden Notebook, Michigan Papers in
      Women’s Studies 2 (1978)
Creation and the Self in Paradise Lost and The Confessions,
      Centennial Review (1975)
Various academic lectures and papers presented at Shakespeare 
      Association Meetings, MLA, poetic conferences    

Spring 09

ECLS 320
ECLS 380
ECLS 390