Doctoral Candidate, Literature and Criticism updated 4 Sep. 2008
Indiana University of Pennsylvania
English Department
412 North Walk
110 Leonard Hall
Indiana, PA 15705
E-mail: e.j.carvalho(at)iup.edu
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- William Thompson
Recent publishing bio: Edward
J. Carvalho is a twice-nominated Pushcart Prize poet (2004-2005), MFA recipient
(Goddard College 2006), and PhD candidate in the Literature and Criticism program
at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of solitary, poor,
nasty, brutish and short (Fine Tooth Press, 2007) and “If the
radiance of a thousand suns”: Songs of the American Hiroshima (Six
Bad Apples Press, 2008-09). His poems––once described as “original,
innovative, imaginative and brutal”––have appeared along
with his essays, reviews, and critical papers in numerous journals throughout
the country. His interview with poet Martín Espada, “A branch
on the Tree of Whitman: Martín Espada on the 150th Anniversary of Leaves
of Grass,” was recently published by Quay and accepted for re-publication
in the Walt Whitman Quarterly Review (University of Iowa, Summer 2008).
In June 2008, Carvalho presented a paper on Whitman as one of 17 international
applicants chosen to participate in the Whitman International Seminar and Symposium,
Dortmund, Germany. He is also guest editor of Dr. David B. Downing's Works
and Days journal
on Academic
Freedom and Intellectual Activism in the Post-9/11 University, which features
his interviews with Noam Chomsky, Martín Espada, and Cornel West, along
with new scholarship from other notable intellectuals (forthcoming Fall
2008/Spring 2009). Additionally, he is the recent recipient of Indiana University
of Pennsylvania’s
Twentieth and Twenty-First Annual IUP Doctoral Fellowships (2006, 2008) and
employed
there with a Teaching Associateship in the English Department. Carvalho was
born in Connecticut in 1970.
For more information, please visit www.edwardjcarvalho.com.
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