Oren Izenberg
Associate Professor, English
School of Humanities
School of Humanities
Ph.D., The Johns Hopkins University, 2001, English
University of California, Irvine
435 Humanities Instructional B
Mail Code: 2650
Irvine, CA 92697
435 Humanities Instructional B
Mail Code: 2650
Irvine, CA 92697
Websites
Publications
• "Near Monstrous Fidelity: Erich Auerbach on Virginia Woolf" in Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century (Princeton University Press, 2025)
• “Dear Friend: Remaining Oneself in the Presence of Another” in Lyric Temporalities (University of Toronto Press, forthcoming 2025)
• “Hugh Kenner and the Visit as Method” (Nonsite 42, 2023)
• “Susan Howe and Valuing,” in Evaluations of US Poetry Since 1950 (University of New Mexico, 2021)
• “The Poetry Genome Project: A Dream,” Lana Turner 12 (2020)
• “How to Know Everything” in The Poetry of Emily Dickinson: Philosophical Perspectives (Oxford University Press, 2021)
• “Retrospection and Metrical Action” in “The Tank: Revolution of the Ordinary: Literary Studies After Wittgenstein, Austin, and Cavell,” Nonsite 27 (May 2019)
• “The Once and Future Thing: A Response to Steve Burt,” American Literary History Volume 28, Number 2, Summer 2016, 320-327.
• “Dear Friend: Remaining Oneself in the Presence of Another” in Lyric Temporalities (University of Toronto Press, forthcoming 2025)
• “Hugh Kenner and the Visit as Method” (Nonsite 42, 2023)
• “Susan Howe and Valuing,” in Evaluations of US Poetry Since 1950 (University of New Mexico, 2021)
• “The Poetry Genome Project: A Dream,” Lana Turner 12 (2020)
• “How to Know Everything” in The Poetry of Emily Dickinson: Philosophical Perspectives (Oxford University Press, 2021)
• “Retrospection and Metrical Action” in “The Tank: Revolution of the Ordinary: Literary Studies After Wittgenstein, Austin, and Cavell,” Nonsite 27 (May 2019)
• “The Once and Future Thing: A Response to Steve Burt,” American Literary History Volume 28, Number 2, Summer 2016, 320-327.
Book:
• Being Numerous: Poetry and the Ground of Social Life (Princeton University Press, 20/21 Series, 2011)
Selected Articles and Book Chapters:
• “Public and Private Schooling: Allen Grossman and Susan Howe,” Cambridge Companion to Contemporary American Poetry (2013), 187-201
• “The Poetry of Ease,” nonsite.org Issue 3 (December 2011)
• “The Tank: Being Numerous—An Exchange with Michael Clune, Paul Grimstad, Virginia Jackson, Simon Jarvis and Aaron Kunin” nonsite.org (September 2011)
• “Poems Out of Our Heads,” PMLA Volume 123, Number 1 (January 2008), 216-222
• “We Are Reading: Collective Intentions Toward Poetry,” Modern Philology Volume 105, Number 1 (August 2007), 91-112
• “Oppen’s Silence, Crusoe’s Silence, And the Silence of Other Minds,” Modernism/Modernity Volume 13, Number 1 (January 2006), 787-811
• “Language Poetry and Collective Life,” Critical Inquiry 30 (2003), 132–159
• Being Numerous: Poetry and the Ground of Social Life (Princeton University Press, 20/21 Series, 2011)
Selected Articles and Book Chapters:
• “Public and Private Schooling: Allen Grossman and Susan Howe,” Cambridge Companion to Contemporary American Poetry (2013), 187-201
• “The Poetry of Ease,” nonsite.org Issue 3 (December 2011)
• “The Tank: Being Numerous—An Exchange with Michael Clune, Paul Grimstad, Virginia Jackson, Simon Jarvis and Aaron Kunin” nonsite.org (September 2011)
• “Poems Out of Our Heads,” PMLA Volume 123, Number 1 (January 2008), 216-222
• “We Are Reading: Collective Intentions Toward Poetry,” Modern Philology Volume 105, Number 1 (August 2007), 91-112
• “Oppen’s Silence, Crusoe’s Silence, And the Silence of Other Minds,” Modernism/Modernity Volume 13, Number 1 (January 2006), 787-811
• “Language Poetry and Collective Life,” Critical Inquiry 30 (2003), 132–159
Grants
• Mellon Officer’s Grant,with nonsite.org, 2013-2015
• NEH Faculty Research Fellowship, Lyric Poetry and the Philosophy of Mind, 2010-2011
• Franke Institute for the Humanities Fellowship, University of Chicago, 2006-2007
Link to this profile
https://faculty.uci.edu/profile/?facultyId=5966
https://faculty.uci.edu/profile/?facultyId=5966
Last updated
10/06/2025
10/06/2025