Graduate Studies in English

Ph.D. Student Profiles

Aidan Thompson

M.F.A. Creative Writing, Mills College
B.F.A. Cornish College of the Arts

Research Interests:
American Modernism / Gender Studies

Select Publications:

• So Earnest to Have a Green Point. Chapbook. Palimpsest Press, 2006
• Particle and Probability. Bedford, MA: Potes & Poets Press, May 2002
  “Kind in Glass,” Five Fingers Review 11 (2002)

Select Conference Presentations:

• Words Without Walls Conference, University at Albany, SUNY, 2005
• “Drama versus Verse in Shakespeare’s Sonnets,” Northern California Renaissance
  Conference, Mills College, Oakland, CA, 2002

Select Fellowships and Awards:

• Finalist, Verse Press Prize, 2004
• Finalist, Colorado Review’s Colorado Prize for Poetry Contest, 2003
• Finalist, Robert H. Winner Award, 2003, a Poetry Society of America award (Judged by Ron Padgett)

Select Teaching Experience:
ENG 226: Focus Lit Theme, Form, Mode: American Women Modernist Poets
ENG 261: American Literary Traditions
ENG 220: The Development of the Short Story

aidanth@yahoo.com