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Stephen Tapscott is a Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the Department of Literature, School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences. His academic work focuses on poetry as a literary genre, translation, and modernist studies, with specializations in North American, Latin American, and Eastern European poetries. He has published five poetry collections, a critical monograph on Walt Whitman and William Carlos Williams, and edited a bilingual anthology of 20th-century Latin American poetry.
Recent courses taught include 'Reading Poetry' (21L.004) and 'Studies in Poetry: The Poetry of Witness' (21L.704). His translations include works by Pablo Neruda, Georg Trakl, and Wisława Szymborska. Tapscott’s research spans autobiography studies, gender/queer theory, and intersections between poetry and visual arts. He holds a PhD in Comparative Literature and has contributed extensively to literary criticism through essays and edited volumes.
