Meg Schoerke

Meg Schoerke is a Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at San Francisco State University, serving as Literature Advisor. She holds an M.F.A. in Poetry Writing and a Ph.D. from Washington University, St. Louis.

Her research focuses on 19th and 20th century British and American poetry, with expertise in Romanticism, Modernism, Women’s Poetry, Stylistics, Science Fiction, and Theories of Metaphor. She has authored Anatomical Venus (2004) and co-edited Twentieth Century American Poetry and Twentieth Century American Poetics. Her essays analyze poets like Marianne Moore, Muriel Rukeyser, and Sylvia Plath, with review-essays featured in The Hudson Review.

Awardees include the Tanner Humanities Fellowship and participation in a 2014 NEH Summer Seminar on George Herbert and Emily Dickinson. Schoerke’s teaching spans poetry, literary theory, and interdisciplinary themes like science fiction. She emphasizes mentorship and critical engagement in literature.