Eavan Boland, Professor

Primary Office: 460-223C
Office Hours:
Office Phone: 650-725-1207

At Stanford Since: 1995

Email: [email protected]

Current Year's Courses:

Graduate Poetry Workshop

Poetry and Poetics

The Poet Re-Making the World

Degrees:

Trinity College, 1966

Titles:

The Bella Mabury and Eloise Mabury Knapp Professor in Humanities

The Melvin and Bill Lane Professor for the Director of the Creative Writing Program

Director, Creative Writing Program, 1997-2000, 2002-Present

Eavan Boland is Irish. She has been writer in residence at Trinity College and University College Dublin. She was poet in residence at the National Maternity Hospital during its 1994 Centenary. She has also been the Hurst Professor at Washington University and Regent's Lecturer at the University of California at Santa Barbara. She is on the board of the Irish Arts Council and a member of the Irish Academy of Letters. She is on the advisory board of the International Writers Center at Washington University. She has published ten volumes of poetry, the most recent being New Collected Poems (2008) and Domestic Violence (2007) and An Origin Like Water: Collected Poems 1967-87 (1996) with W.W. Norton. She has received the Lannan Award for Poetry and an American Ireland Fund Literary Award. She has published a volume of prose called Object Lessons: The Life of the Woman and the Poet in Our Time.