Christopher Bakken

Title: Associate Professor
Department: English
Research Fields of Interest : Creative Writing, Twentieth-Century Literature, Food & Travel Writing.
Degrees: B.A., University of Wisconsin, Madison; M.F.A., Columbia University; Ph.D., The University of Houston 

Contact Info      

Email: cbakken@allegheny.edu
Phone: (814) 332-4338
Website: Click here 

Office Info      

Office Location: Oddfellows #220

Office Hours: Fall 2012- TBA

Courses and Syllabi 
Spring 2012 
English 200*02 Reading Literature Download Syllabus
English 206*02 Writing Poetry  Download Syllabus
English 323*00 Global Literature Download Syllabus 

Fall 2011
English 206*00 Writing Poetry Download Syllabus
English 401*00 Adv. Poetry Writing Workshop Download Syllabus
    
Spring 2011
English 206*00 Writing Poetry Download Syllabus
English 302*00 Forms of Poetry: Lyric/Landscp. Download Syllabus
English 470*00 Topics in 20th Century American Literature Download Syllabus

Fall 2010
English 206*02 Writing Poetry Download Syllabus
English 401*00 Advanced Poetry Writing Workshop Download Syllabus
English 551*00 20th Century Poetry Download Syllabus       

Spring 2010
ENGL 210*00: Writing Nonfiction | » Download Syllabus
ENGL 630*00: Senior Project Seminar | » Download Syllabus 

Fall 2009  
ENGL 302*00: Forms of Poetry | » Download Syllabus

Spring 2009
ENGL 552*00: Contemporary American Poetry | » Download Syllabus

Fall 2008
FS101*00: Eating Poetry| » Download Syllabus  

Spring 2008
ENGL 200*00: Reading Literature | » Download Syllabus
  

 Publications Books       

  • Bakken, Christopher.After Greece.Truman State University Press, 2001.*
  • Bakken, Christopher. Goat Funeral. Sheep Meadow Press, 2006.*
  • Bakken, Christopher. Co-Translator.  The Lions’ Gate: Selected Poems of Titos Patrikios. Truman State University Press, 2006.*

Essays

Poetry recently published or forthcoming in The Paris Review, Literary Imagination, The Gettysburg Review, Southwest Review, The Hudson Review, Ploughshares,* Agni, Verse Daily, and elsewhere. Essays and reviews published or forthcoming in Parnassus: Poetry in Review, Contemporary Poetry Review,* The Gettysburg Review, Teachers & Writers Magazine, and elsewhere. 

    
Anthologies and textbooks: New European Poetry; Kindled Terraces: American Poets in Greece, Under the Rock Umbrella: Contemporary American Poetry from 1951-1977, Structure and Surprise: Engaging Poetic Turns; and Writing Poetry: Creative and Critical Approaches.     
 
 Conference Papers and Readings
 
  • PEN World Voices Festival, New York. May, 2009.
  • “The National Undergraduate Literary Magazine: Quality, Visibility, and Stability.” AWP Conference. Chicago. (February, 2009)
  • “Editing the Wide-Scope Anthology: A Panel of New European Poets Editors.” ALTA (American Literary Translators Association) Conference. Minneapolis. (October, 2008)
  • The Writers Union of Romania International Writers’ Festival and Colloquium 2008. Neptun, Romania. (June, 2008)
  • University of Transylvania: Brasov, Romania. (April, 2008)
  • Associated Writing Program conference (reading with John Ashbery & Stanley Moss). New York. (February, 2008)
  • Whittier College (with Bob Hicok and Alan Michael Parker). (March, 2007)
  • “The Ironic Structure.” Panel presentation. Associated Writing Programs Conference. Atlanta. (March, 2007)
  • Oberlin College. Main Street Reading Series. Featured reader. (October, 2005).
  • Hellenic American Union, Athens, Greece. A Celebration of After Greece (in Greek translation), with Titos Patrikios, Aliki Barnstone & Roula Konsolaki. (October, 2005)
  • “Rage for Order: How Poetry Confronts Disaster.” International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities. University of the Aegean, Rhodes, Greece. (July, 2003)
  • Middlebury College, Ross Commons Featured Reader. (January, 2003)

Awards

  • Texas Institute of Letters | Helen C. Smith Memorial Award for Best Book of Poetry for 2006 (for Goat Funeral): Winner. (2007)
  • Texas Institute of Letters | Soeurette Diehl Fraser Award for Best Translation of a Book for 2006 (for The Lions’ Gate): Finalist. (2007)
  • Fulbright Fellowship in American Studies | University of Bucharest, Romania. (2007)
  • Willis Barnstone Translation Prize. (2005)
  • International Writers’ and Translators’ Center of Rhodes: Residency. (2004)
  • The T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry | Truman State University Press. (2001)
  • Chef on a Shoestring |CBS Saturday Morning Early Show. (2001) 

Recent Faculty News

Christopher Bakken’s discusses his poem  “Drunk” at “How a Poem Happens”.        

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