David McAleavey

Title — Professor of English

Office — Rome Hall, Room 655

Phone — (202) 994-6515

E-mail — dmca@gwu.edu

Current Research

In poetry I'm about as focused on formal attentiveness and innovation as I am on discerning truth, thrilled when the sine-waves of these interests overlap and amplify into an audible freshness. As a scholar and poet alert to the European and American avant-garde movements of the 19th and 20th centuries, and having Language Writing to work with and against as I matured, I find it natural to expect links between the arts, and feel it important to attend to the ways various artists influence one another. I have a growing interest in the relationship between American literature and other English-language national literatures, including the work of those with multiple or complex linguistic, ethnic, racial, and national identities.

Education

Ph.D. in English, Cornell University, 1975.
MFA in Creative Writing (Poetry), Cornell University, 1972.

Publications
Books of poetry

Sterling 403 (Ithaca House, 1971)

The Forty Days (Ithaca House, 1975)

Shrine, Shelter, Cave (Ithaca House, 1980)

Holding Obsidian (Washington Writers' Publishing House, 1985)

David McAleavey's Greatest Hits 1971-2000 (Pudding House Publications, 2001)

Huge Haiku (Chax Press, 2005)

Edited collections (with introductions)

Evidence of Community: Writing from the Jenny McKean Moore Workshops at George Washington University (GW Washington Studies #11, Center for Washington Area Studies, GWU 1984)

Washington and Washington Writing (GW Washington Studies #12, Center for Washington Area Studies, GWU 1986)

Other Publications

Poems in The Connecticut Review, The Portable Boog Reader, The Broadkill Review (2009)

Individual poems published in over 100 magazines, including Poetry, Ploughshares, Epoch, Virginia Quarterly Review, and Tottle's .

He has also had poems in a number of anthologies, including, most recently, Full Moon on K Street (Plan B Press, 2010).

Honors

Recipient, GW Award, the University's highest honor for service to the institution.