
Heather White
Professor
Assistant Chair
Assistant Chair
- (205) 348-5065
- hwhite@ua.edu
- English Building 231
Research Areas
- Late American Literature
Bio
Publications
Books
- Books Promiscuously Read: Reading as a Way of Life. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2021.
- New Collected Poems of Marianne Moore. London: Faber; New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2017. Co-winner of the Modern Language Association Prize for Best Scholarly Edition, 2019.
- Adversity & Grace: Marianne Moore 1936-1941. Victoria: ELS Editions, 2012.
- A-Quiver with Significance: Marianne Moore 1932-1936. Victoria: ELS Editions, 2008.
Articles
- “‘Pigeons’ and the Future of Moore Criticism.” Twentieth Century Literature 63.4, (December 2017): 385-404.
- “A Variety of Hero: Marianne Moore’s Romance.” Co-authored with Luke Carson. Journal of Modern Literature 34.4 (Summer 2011): 64-183.
- “Difficult Ground: Poetic Renunciation in Marianne Moore’s ‘Walking-Sticks and Paperweights and Watermarks’.” Co-authored with Luke Carson. Twentieth-Century Literature 56.3 (Fall 2010): 341-70.
- “Pragmatist Poetics in Wallace Stevens and Marianne Moore.” The Wallace Stevens Journal 31.2 (Fall 2007): 148-70.
- “Relentless Accuracy and a Capacity for Fact: Authorship in Marianne Moore and Gertrude Stein.” A Right Good Salvo of Barks: Essays on Marianne Moore. Ed. Cristanne Miller, et al. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell UP, 2005.
- “‘Parts Nicely Opposed’: Lorine Niedecker’s Emerging Reputation.” Western Humanities Review 59.1 (Spring 2005): 144-63.
- “Elizabeth Bishop’s Calling.” Twentieth Century Literature 48.2 (Summer 2002): 1–33. Winner of the 2002 Andrew Kappel Award for Literary Crticism.
- “How to Have a Conversation With Gertrude Stein: An Essay in Four Steps.” Connotations 10:2-3 (2000–2001): 124-46.
- “Morals, Manners, and ‘Marriage’: Marianne Moore’s Art of Conversation.” Twentieth Century Literature 45:4 (1999): 488-510.
- “Teasing the Lion: What Elizabeth Bishop Knows.” Harvard Review 16 (1999): 61-70.
Special Issues
- Special Issue of Twentieth Century Literature: “Marianne Moore.” Co-edited with Fiona Green. 63.4 (December 2017).
- “Learning to Read.” Special issue of Genre (45.1, Spring 2012) co-edited with Luke Carson.
Interviews
- “An Interview with James Merrill.” Ploughshares 21.4 (1995-6):190-195.
- “The Dynamics of Poise,” Interview with A.R. Ammons. The Bookpress (November 1993): 1.
- “Being and Nothingness of Poetry,” Interview with Mark Strand. The Bookpress (December 1992): 1.
Reviews
- In TLS, Twentieth Century Literature, Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature, Harvard Review, Genre, and The Journal.