Demetres P. Tryphonopoulos
BA, MA, PhD (Western Ontario)
Teaching, Research, and Graduate Supervision: I teach and research in twentieth-century American Literature with a focus on difficult modernist texts (especially long poems) often approaching them through the lenses of poetics, translation theory and practice, prosody and rhetoric, and editorial theory and textual criticism. My research interests have taken me to such archives, among others, as those at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale U.; the New York Public Library; the Lilly Library, U. of Indiana at Bloomington; the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, U. of Texas at Austin; the British Library, London, UK; and several manuscript libraries in Italy and Greece. My graduate students have been trained in various aspects of modernist research, have visited archives (with SSHRC support) and have published their work in journal and book form; they have also had the opportunity to attend international conferences like the Modernist Studies Association (MSA) and the American Literature Association (ALA). Over the past twenty years, I myself have attended more than eighty conferences in Canada, the U.S., England, France, Italy, and Greece.
My current projects include The Correspondence of H.L. Mencken and Ezra Pound (forthcoming from Oxford UP, 2010); Ezra Pound's and H.D.'s Hellenistic Prosodies; Approaches to Teaching Ezra Pound’s Poetry and Prose (forthcoming from MLAP, 2011); The Inmate at St Elizabeths: The Correspondence of Ezra Pound and Archibald MacLeish; The Sound of Poetry: The Poetry of Sound--Free Verse and After; The Modernist Greek Long Poem: George Seferis, Nikos Gatsos and Odysseas Elytis; and a book on Constantine Cavafy’s language(s).
Publications: My essays on Ezra Pound and other modernists have appeared in North American and European journals; I have contributed essays to many collections, including Dante e Pound (Longo Editore, 1998) and The H.D. Companion (Cambridge UP, 2010). I am the author of The Celestial Tradition: A Study of Ezra Pound's "The Cantos" (WLUP, 1992), translated into Italian under the title Pound e l'occulto: le radici esoteriche dei Cantos (Roma: Mediterranee, 1998); and I have edited or co-edited many books, including Literary Modernism and the Occult Tradition (NPF, 1996); "I Cease Not to Yowl": Pound's Letters to Olivia Rossetti Agresti (U. of Illinois P, 1998); Fiddlehead Gold: Fifty Years of the Fiddlehead Magazine (Goose Lane Editions, 1995); William Carlos Williams and the Language of Poetry (NPF, 2002); and The Ezra Pound Encyclopedia (Greenwood P, 2005). The year 2009 saw the publication of H.D. (writing as Delia Alton), Majic Ring, ed. Demetres P. Tryphonopoulos (Gainesville: UP of Florida); a Greek translation of L'America, Roosevelt e le cause della guerra presente (preface and editorial supervision by Demetres P. Tryphonopoulos; trans. and introd. Ioannis Kotoulas, Athens: Periplous); and a Japanese edition of The Ezra Pound Encyclopedia. Eds. Demetres P. Tryphonopoulos and Stephen J. Adams; Trans. Takaomi Eda (Tokyo: Yushodo P).
Other interests/professional activities: For the past several years I have served as Book Review Editor for Paideuma: Studies and American and British Modernist Poetry; and on behalf of the Ezra Pound Society of North America, I am responsible for arranging annually two sessions at each of the Modern Language Association Congress and the ALA. Finally, for the past ten years (1999-present) I have also served as Associate or Assistant Dean, School of Graduate Studies, UNB.
Current member of the Graduate Academic Unit.
Contact Information:
Office: Carleton Hall 317
Phone: (506) 458-7410
