Robert McNamara

Department of English University of Washington Box 354330 Seattle, WA  98195-4330

Phone: (206)  543-7131 Fax: (206) 685-2673 Email: rmcnamar@u.washington.edu

EDUCATION:
Ph.D., University of Washington, 1985
M.A., Colorado State University, 1975
B.A., Amherst College, 1972

GRANTS AND AWARDS:
Fulbright Grant, Indo-American Fellowship Program, for research at Jadavpur University, Calcutta, India, July-September 1993.
National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship, 1987-88
Susannah Jane McMurphy Fellowship, 1983-84
Amherst Memorial Fellowship, 1973-74
A. J. P. Sloan Foundation Scholarship (Amherst College), 1967-72

EMPLOYMENT:
Senior Lecturer, University of Washington, 1998--.
Lecturer, University of Washington, 1986-97.
Teaching Assistant, University of Washington, 1979-85.
Instructor, University of Washington 1985-86.
Instructor, Colorado State University, 1976-79.
Instructor, Experimental Studies, University of Colorado, 1976.

PUBLICATIONS:

Books: Second Messengers (poems), Middletown:  Wesleyan University Press, 1990.

Contributions to Book:
Essay on Rabindranath Tagore in Amar Chokhe Rabindranath, Calcutta: Ekhan Roddur Sahitya Parisad, 1996.

Articles and Essays: .
"Opposition is True Friendship" (on the role of the arts in society), Northwest Review, 28.3-29.1 (1991): 4-35.   
"'Prufrock' and the Problem of Literary Narcissism," Contemporary Literature, 27.3 (1986):  356-77.
  "Pound's Malatesta:  An Alternative to the Martial Ideal," Pacific Coast Philology, 22.1-2 (1985):  57-64.

Poems in Magazines:
"On the #7 Train," Faultline, 11 (2002).
"Extractions (1, 16, 17, 32)," Prairie Schooner, 76.2 (2002).
"A Dog's Life," Prairie Schooner, 76.2 (2002).
"Looking at the Cover," Crab Creek Review, Autumn/Winter 2001.
"Dawn, Port Gamble," Crab Creek Review, Autumn/Winter 2001.
"A Marriage Suite," Poet Lore, 95.1 (2000).
"Night and Day," Quarterly West 50, (2000).
" Oatmeal, First Snow Falling," Ohio Review 60, (2000).
"After the Rain, and Kant," Notre Dame Review 9, (2000).
"When My Mother Came Back from Barbados," Notre Dame Review 9, (2000).
Sections 1-10 from "The Injured Coast," Willow Springs Review, 39 (1997).
"On the Mandalay Train," Portland Review, 42.1 (1995).
"They Start Promptly at Eight," Portland Review, 41.3 (1995).
"At the Intersection," Portland Review, 41.3 (1995).
"Early Morning, Gariahat Road," Portland Review, 41.3 (1995).
"At the Oberoi Grand," Portland Review, 41.3 (1995).
"The Victoria Memorial," Bridge in Making (Calcutta, India), 9 (1994).
"At the Start of the Day," Bridge in Making (Calcutta, India), 9 (1994).
"What They Leave Us," Bridge in Making (Calcutta, India), 14 (1995).
"In the Cage," The Cream City Review, 19.2 (1994).
"Be that Someone," Bellingham Review, 16.1-2 (1993).
"At the Side Door, Holy Epiphany," Bellingham Review, 16.1-2 (1993).
"In the Wake of My Strafing and Bombing," Bellingham Review, 16.1-2 (1993).
"Winter, Tulalip Shores," Jeopardy, 29 (1993).
"Listen," Metro Poetry Buses, 1992.
"At the Start of the Day," Metro Poetry Buses, 1992.
"The End of Strife," Metro Poetry Buses, 1992.
"In Ape Caves," The Ohio Review, 47 (1992).
"Dusk, Port Madison Anchorage," Northwest Review, 28.3-29.1 (1991).
"In the Cameron Highlands," Northwest Review, 28.3-29.1 (1991).
"At the Edge of the Dunes," The Gettysburg Review, 4.3 (1991).
"The End of Strife," The Gettysburg Review, 4.3 (1991).
"Doing Melaka," Field, 45 (1991).
"Divorce Court," Agni Review, 34 (1991).
"Best Coat Company," Cimarron Review, 93 (1990)
"Elephants at Work," The Antioch Review, 48.4 (1990).
"Teanaway River, Two Passes,"  The Ohio Review, 44 (1989).
"What Anyone Really Wanted," Agni Review, 28 (1989).
"Absences," Agni Review, 28 (1989).
"As You Stand Peeling an Orange," The Missouri Review, 12.2 (1989).
"And A Small Cabin Build There," Seattle Review, 11.2 (1988-89).
"The Wound," Kansas Quarterly, 20.1-2 (1988).
"At the Savannah," Kansas Quarterly, 20.1-2 (1988).
"At My Daughter's School," Massachusetts Review, 29.2 (1988).
"After A Year, Some Words For You," Massachusetts Review, 29.2 (1988).
"In The Hearts of His Countrymen," Quarterly West, 27 (1988).
"Out of the Blue," Quarterly West, 27 (1988).
"Such Accomplishments," Quarterly West, 27 (1988).
"Armies of Light," Jeopardy, 24 (1988).
"The White Breast of the Dim Sea," Poetry Northwest, 28.4 (1987-88).
"Three Animal Stories," Seattle Review, 10.2 (1987).
"The Swallows," Hubbub, 8.2 (1985).
"The Fair," Chariton Review, 7. 1 (1981).
"Vespers," Poetry Miscellany, (1979).
"Flying In At One Door," Poetry Miscellany, (1979).
"Gathering," Poetry Miscellany, (1979).
"In the Thin of Winter," Poetry Miscellany, (1979).
"A Piece of Fruit," Epoch, 28.2 (1979).
"Domestic Animals," Massachusetts Review, 20.2 (1979).
"Raccoon," Colorado State Review, 7. 1 (1979).
"Dogwood," Colorado State Review, 7.1 (1979).
"Heart's River," New Mexico Humanities Review, 2.2 (1979).
"Naming the Weeds," Small Pond Review of Literature, 16.2 (1979).
"To Danny," Wind, 7.24 (1977).
"Breakdown," Chowder Review, 1977.
"Breaking New Ground," Portland Review, 1977.
"Going Home," Colorado North Review, 12.2 (1976).
"233 Walnut Street," Dacotah Territory, 13 (1976).
"Driving," Dacotah Territory, 13 (1976).
"Family Album," Hollow Spring Review, 1.1 (1976).

Poems in Anthologies:
“Raccoon,” The Poem & The World, Book IV, Seattle, WA: The Poem & The World, 2002.
"Ancestral Village," New Voices, Ft. Collins, CO: The Center for Literary Publishing, 1994.
"My Last Afternoon in Calcutta," New Voices, Ft. Collins, CO: The Center for Literary Publishing, 1994.
"The Gold Tooth," New Voices, Ft. Collins, CO: The Center for Literary Publishing, 1994.
"In Ape Caves," New Voices, Ft. Collins, CO: The Center for Literary Publishing, 1994.
"The Swallows," 15 Seattle Book, Seattle Arts Commission, 1987.

Translations:  
  
Books:
Birajmohan and Other Poems (poems by Sarat Kumar Mukhopadhyay), Calcutta: Cambridge India, 1998.

Poems in Magazines:
"Procession" by Sarat Kumar Mukhopadhyay, The Kenyon Review, 18.2 (1996).
"Friend" by Sarat Kumar Mukhopadhyay, The Kenyon Review, 18.2 (1996).
"The Second Family" by Sarat Kumar Mukhopadhyay, The Kenyon Review, 18.2 (1996).
"History" by Sarat Kumar Mukhopadhyay, New Orleans Review, 22.1 (1996).
"In the Air" by Sarat Kumar Mukhopadhyay, New Orleans Review, 22.1 (1996).
"The Door of the Palace" by Sarat Kumar Mukhopadhyay, New Orleans Review, 22.1 (1996).
"A tired woman holding the hand of a child" by Sarat Kumar Mukhopadhyay, 100 Words (1996).
"Birajmohan" by Sarat Kumar Mukhopadhyay, Visions International (1997).
"Leaving," by Sarat Kumar Mukhopadhyay, Poetry Today 1:4, 1997.
"Leaving," by Sarat Kumar Mukhopadhyay, Luna 2(1), 2000.
"Ten for the Jackfruit," by Sarat Kumar Mukhopadhyay, Luna 2(1), 2000.
"Image," by Sarat Kumar Mukhopadhyay, Luna 2(1), 2000.
"Eggplant," by Sarat Kumar Mukhopadhyay, Toronto Review 19(1), 2000.
"Elegy," by Sarat Kumar Mukhopadhyay, Toronto Review 19(1), 2000.
"The Ungovernable," by Sarat Kumar Mukhopadhyay, Toronto Review 19(1), 2000.
"Prague, 1917," by Sarat Kumar Mukhopadhyay, Toronto Review 19(1), 2000.
"To God," by Sarat Kumar Mukhopadhyay, Toronto Review 19(1), 2000.
"A Bowl of Sacred Rice," by Sarat Kumar Mukhopadhyay, Toronto Review 19(1), 2000.
"A Cat," by Sarat Kumar Mukhopadhyay, The Journal of South Asian Literature, 32(1&2), 2000.
"Prize," by Sarat Kumar Mukhopadhyay, The Journal of South Asian Literature, 32(1&2), 2000.
"Hair," by Sarat Kumar Mukhopadhyay, The Journal of South Asian Literature, 32(1&2), 2000.    
"The Cat Under the Stairs," by Sarat Kumar Mukhopadhyay, The Journal of South Asian Literature 32(1&2), 2000.

Reviews:
"When to Speak," rev. of With Ignorance, by C. K. Williams, Colorado State Review, 8.1 (1980):  25-29.
"Electrical Figures of Speech," rev. of The Anarchist Heart, by Bill Tremblay, Prairie Schooner, 52.2 (1978):  207-79.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:

Conferences, Lectures, Readings:
Poetry reading, University of Washington, April 21, 1998.
Panelist, "Make Me an Author!" Northwest Bookfest, October 26, 1997.
Poetry reading, University of Washington, April 25, 1997.
Poetry reading, Twentieth Century Literature Conference, February, 1997.
Poetry reading, Borders Books, Portland, OR, March 1996.
Poetry reading, Twentieth Century Literature Conference, February 1996.
Poetry reading, Standard Books, Seattle, WA., April 27, 1993.
Poetry reading, Peninsula College, Port Angeles, WA., January 12, 1993.
Poetry reading, Portland State University, May 24, 1991.
Poetry reading, Elliot Bay Book Company, December 13, 1990.
Leader, workshop on "How To Link Writing Courses with Lecture Courses in the Disciplines," CCCC Conference, March 1989.
"The Interdisciplinary Teaching of Writing," Association for Integrative Studies Conference, October, 1988.
"The Perils of Inductivism:  Teaching Writing in the Biological Sciences," CCCC Conference, March, 1988.
Session chair, "Contemporary Poetry," PAPC Conference, November 1985.
Discussion coordinator, session on "Graduate Studies in the University," Society for Critical Exchange Conference, May 1984.

Professional Organizations:
Editor and founder of L'Epervier Press, a small literary press dedicated to the publishing of contemporary American poetry.  Founded: 1977.  Titles published:  45.  Recipient of three project grants from the National Endowment for the Arts.

 

 

 

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