Jeffery Donaldson, McMaster University

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Department of English Professor Hamilton, Ontario jdonalds@mcmaster.ca Office: (905) 525-9140 ext. 24132

Bio/Research

Jeffery Donaldson is a poet and author of Once Out of Nature (McClelland & Stewart, 1991), Waterglass (McGill-Queen's University Press, 1999), and Palilalia (McGill-Queen's, 2008). He teaches a graduate course in metaphor theory and another in modern and contemporary American poetry. Author of ar...

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Bio/Research

Jeffery Donaldson is a poet and author of Once Out of Nature (McClelland & Stewart, 1991), Waterglass (McGill-Queen's University Press, 1999), and Palilalia (McGill-Queen's, 2008). He teaches a graduate course in metaphor theory and another in modern and contemporary American poetry. Author of articles on a variety of contemporary American and Canadian poets, including James Merrill, Richard Howard, Robert Lowell, Mark Strand, Elizabeth Bishop, and Anne Compton, he has also co-edited (with Alan Mendelson) a collection of essays entitled Frye and the Word: Religious Contexts in the Writings of Northrop Frye (U of T, 2004). An advocate of Inquiry and problem-based learning in the Humanities, his current research involves metaphor, evolution, and cognitive theory.

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