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Benjamin Friedlander is a Professor of English at the University of Maine. His affiliations include the Center for Poetry and Poetics as affiliated faculty, editor of Paideuma: Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics, and member of the Historical Poetics Workshop. Friedlander holds a PhD from the University at Buffalo (1999), and MA and BA degrees from the University of California at Berkeley (1990 and 1985).
His research focuses on Poetry and Poetics with particular emphasis on American Literature, especially 19th-century contexts. Current work includes a book project examining Emily Dickinson’s engagement with Civil War history and language, supported by published excerpts in PMLA and other journals. Friedlander’s scholarly contributions span edited volumes on Robert Creeley, Charles Olson, and David Melnick, alongside his own critically acclaimed poetry collections.
Teaching spans graduate courses like Unfinished Business: Nineteenth-Century America and the Present (Spring 2024) and undergraduate core courses such as ENG 222: Reading Poems. His recent publications and classes reflect sustained interests in canonical re-evaluation, transhistorical poetic connections, and the intersection of form and cultural crisis.
