Aidan Wasley

Associate Professor, works on twentieth-century poetry and poetics, with interests in British Modernism, postwar American literature, transatlantic literary exchange, cultural history of London, documentary film, and popular culture. He has published articles and reviews in Raritan, Contemporary Literature, Wallace Stevens Journal, Symbiosis, Twentieth Century Literature, American Literary History, and Slate. He is currently working on two book projects: a study of postwar American culture called Mid-Century Moderns: Hitchcock, Auden, Stravinsky, and another on the very late poems of Auden. He has been Writer-in-Residence at the James Merrill House in Stonington, Conn., a Huntington Fellow, and a Whiting Fellow. He has been a resident faculty member with the UGA/Oxford program and is currently the Director of the British & Irish Studies program at the University of Georgia. He is the author of The Age of Auden: Postwar Poetry and the American Scene (Princeton University Press) [Winner of SAMLA Studies Book Award, South Atlantic Modern Language Association; Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Title].