Degrees: Ph.D., Yale
Fields: - American
- Contemporary Literature
- Modernism
- Theory
Interests: Twentieth-century poetry, American literature, literature and science, literary theory and criticism, philosophy and literature
Email: [
sjmeyer@artsci.wustl.edu ]
Biographical Information
Professor Meyer is the author of Irresistible Dictation: Gertrude Stein and the Correlations of Writing and Science (2001; paperback 2003), which seeks to establish the interdisciplinary contours of Stein's writing: philosophical, psychological, neurophysiological, literary. A second volume, provisionally titled Gertrude Stein Among the Neuroscientists, will address the profound continuities between Stein's compositional practices and recent accounts of the neurophysiological bases of consciousness. He is also completing a study of the various strains of innovative poetry in the U.S., entitled Rhythms of Thought: Understanding Twentieth-Century Poetry. Articles by Professor Meyer have appeared in Raritan, the Yale Journal of Criticism, Modernism/Modernity, Grand Street, the Partisan Review, and the Boston Review. Since 1999 he has been awarded fellowships at both the Stanford Humanities Center and Yale's Whitney Humanities Center.
Courses Taught
- L14 343: Two Cultures: Literature and Science (SP2007)
- L14 564: Science Studies Literary Studies (SP2007)
- L14 257: The Art of Poetry (FL2006)
- L14 447: Modern British and American Poetry (FL2006)