417 Shanks Hall, Blacksburg, VA 24061
Phone: (540) 231-6901
tom.gardner@vt.edu
Academic Information
| Education: | Degree: | Discipline: | Year: |
| Bucknell University | B.A. | English | 1974 |
| Syracuse University | M.A. | English | 1976 |
| University of Wisconsin | Ph.D. | English | 1982 |
Books
- A Door Ajar: Contemporary Writers and Emily Dickinson. Oxford University Press, 2006.
- Jorie Graham: Essays on the Poetry, ed. University of Wisconsin Press, 2005.
- Three for a Dime: A Family Album(memoir). William Gardner, Marion Gardner, and Thomas Gardner. Alleghany Press, 2000.
- Regions of Unlikeness: Explaining Contemporary Poetry. University of Nebraska Press, 1999.
- The Mime, Speaking. Mellen Poetry Press, 1992.
- Discovering Ourselves in Whitman: The Contemporary American Long Poem. University of Illinois Press, 1989.
Edited Volumes
- "American Poetry of the Seventies," Contemporary Literature, Fall 1982.
- "American Poetry of the Eighties," Contemporary Literature, Summer 1992.
- "American Poetry of the Nineties," Contemporary Literature, Summer 2001.
Recent Articles
- "Restructured and Restrung: Charles Wright's Zone Journals and Emily Dickinson," Kenyon Review, 2004.
- "Jorie Graham's The End of Beauty and a Fresh Look at Modernism," Southwest Review, 2003.
- "Dickinson and the Unknown," Review, 2003.
- "Jorie Graham and Emily Dickinson: Singing to Use the Waiting," in American Women Poets of the 21st Century, ed. Claudia Rankine, Wesleyan University Press, 2002.
- "'Not Unfamiliar': Elizabeth Bishop's Continuing Presence in Contemporary American Poetry," in The Art of Elizabeth Bishop, Brazil: Editora UFMG, 2002.
- "Enlarging Loneliness: Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping as a Reading of Emily Dickinson," The Emily Dickinson Journal, 2001
- "Robert Hass and the Settling of California,"in Migration, Preservation, and Change, ed. Jeffrey Kaplan (Helsinki: Renvall Institute Publications, 1999.
- "Bishop and Ashbery: Two Ways Out of Stevens," The Wallace Stevens Journal, 1995.
- "Elizabeth Bishop and the Powers of Uncertainty," Review, 1995.
- "An Open, Habitable Space: Poetry 1991," Contemporary Literature, 1992.
- "Clarity and Opacity in Elizabeth Bishop," Review, 1989.
- "Accurate Failures: The Work of Jorie Graham," The Hollins Critic, 1987.
- "Reading Ashbery." The CEA Critic, Spring 1986.
- "'You Can't Live There': Ashbery's 'Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror,'" Poesis, 1986.
Interviews
- "Jorie Graham: The Art of Poetry LXXXV," The Paris Review, 2003
- "An Interview with Jorie Graham," The Denver Quarterly, 1992.
- "An Interview with Michael Heller," Contemporary Literature, 1991.
- "An Interview with Richard Hugo," Contemporary Literature, 1981.
- "An Interview with Galway Kinnell," Contemporary Literature, 1979.
Poems and Plays
- Eurydice: A Monologue. Edinburgh Festival Fringe, August 2005, Virginia Tech Festival of New Plays, February 2006.
- Ear, and I, and Silence (A theatre piece focused on American poetry), February 2004, Studio Theatre, Virginia Tech.
- "Running Journal: Finland," a 13-poem sequence, Roots and Renewal: Writings by Bicentennial Professors, ed. Mark Shackelton and Maarika Toivonen, Helsinki, 2001.
Honors
- William E. Wine Teaching Award, 2006.
- Virginia Commission for the Arts, Playwriting Award, 2005.
- CLAHS Faculty Research Grant, Spring/Summer 2005.
- College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences Excellence in Research and Creative Scholarship Award, 2004-2005.
- Commonwealth of Virginia Outstanding Faculty Award, 2003.
- Guggenheim Fellowship, 2002-2003.
- Phi Beta Kappa Sturm Award for Outstanding Faculty Research, Virginia Tech, 2001.
- Fulbright Bicentennial Chair in American Studies, University of Helsinki, 1996-97.
- NEA Fellowship for Creative Writers: Poetry, 1995-96.
- Diggs Teaching Scholar Award, 1994.
- Alumni Teaching Award, 1991.
- NEH Summer Humanities Stipend, 1988.
- Virginia Tech Certificates of Teaching Excellence, 1986, 1989.
- Virginia Tech Summer Humanities Stipend, 1984, 2001.
