Jeff Dolven
{{short description|American academic and poet|bot=PearBOT 5}}
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Jeff Dolven is an American academic and poet. He is a professor of English at Princeton University, and the author of four books, one of which is a collection of his poems, and one of which was written in twenty-four hours.{{Cite web|url=http://cabinetmagazine.org/books/24Hours_Dolven.php|title=Take Care|website=cabinetmagazine.org|language=en|access-date=2020-01-03}}
Career
Dolven graduated from Yale University, where he earned a bachelor's degree in philosophy.{{cite news|title=Elite Educators|url=http://harvardmagazine.com/2002/11/elite-educators.html|accessdate=September 28, 2017|work=Harvard Magazine|date=November–December 2002}} He was a Rhodes scholar at the University of Oxford,{{cite news|title=RHODES SCHOLARS SELECTED FOR 1991|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1990/12/10/us/rhodes-scholars-selected-for-1991.html?mcubz=1|accessdate=September 28, 2017|work=The New York Times|date=December 9, 1990}} earned a PhD in English from Yale, and was a junior fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows. He taught for a year at Brandeis University as a visiting assistant professor and joined the faculty at Princeton in 2001. At Princeton he has served as Behrman Professor of the Humanities and Acting Chair of the Department of English, and was the founding director of the Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in the Humanities.{{cite web|title=People in the Humanities Council: Behrman Professors|url=https://humanities.princeton.edu/people/role/behrman-professors/|website=Humanities Council|publisher=Princeton University|accessdate=September 28, 2017}} He is also an editor at large at Cabinet magazine.{{Cite web|url=http://cabinetmagazine.org/information/staff.php|title=Cabinet Staff|website=cabinetmagazine.org|language=en|access-date=2020-01-03}}
Dolven has also received fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, the Stanford Humanities Center,{{Cite web|url=http://shc.stanford.edu/people/current-center-fellows/2003-2004|title=Current Center Fellows: 2003-2004|website=Stanford Humanities|language=en|access-date=2020-01-03}} the American Philosophical Society, and the Guggenheim Foundation,{{Cite web|url=https://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/jeff-dolven/|title=John Simon Guggenheim Foundation {{!}} Jeff Dolven|language=en-US|access-date=2020-01-03}} and has been a fellow at the MacDowell Colony{{Cite web|url=https://www.macdowellcolony.org/artists/jeff-dolven|title=Jeff Dolven - Artist|website=MacDowell Colony|language=en|access-date=2020-01-03}} and Trinity College, Cambridge.
Works
- {{cite book|last1=Dolven|first1=Jeff|title=Scenes of Instruction in Renaissance Romance|date=2007|publisher=University of Chicago Press|location=Chicago, Illinois, U.S.|isbn=9780226155364|oclc=928978642}}
- {{cite book|last1=Dolven|first1=Jeff|title=Speculative Music: Poems|date=2013|publisher=Sarabande Books|location=Louisville, Kentucky|isbn=9781936747580|oclc=812258745|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/speculativemusic0000dolv}}
- {{cite book|last1=Dolven|first1=Jeff|title=Senses of Style: Poetry Before Interpretation|date=2017|publisher=University of Chicago Press|location=Chicago, Illinois, U.S.|isbn=9780226517087|oclc=975443565}}
- Dolven, Jeff (2018). Take Care. Brooklyn, New York, U.S.: Cabinet Books, 2017. {{ISBN|9781932698794}}. OCLC [https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/999606053 999606053].
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Category:American literary theorists
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