English Department Faculty

Rowan Ricardo Phillips is poet, critic, and translator.  Along with teaching in the undergraduate and graduate programs, he is Director of the Poetry Center at Stony Brook.  A graduate of Swarthmore College and of Brown University, where he earned his Ph.D., Rowan Ricardo Phillips is the author of two forthcoming books: The Ground , a collection of poems, and When Blackness Rhymes with Blackness: Essays on African American Poetry.  Phillips is also a leading figure in the translation of contemporary Catalan poetry and fiction: his most recent translations appear in The Review of Contemporary Fiction  and Best European Fiction 2010 (edited by Aleksandar Hemon, with an introduction by Zadie Smith).  His poetry has appeared in venues such as The New Yorker, The New Republic, and The Kenyon Review, among many others.  He lives in both New York City and Barcelona.

Rowan Ricardo Phillips

Associate Professor. Ph.D. Brown University, 2003.  Poetry, Translation, African American and Caribbean Literature.

2077 Humanities; T/TH 5:30pm-7:00pm and by appt.
Rowan.Phillips@stonybrook.edu
631.632.7374

Current Courses:

Fall 2009

• Literary Analysis and Argumentation (EGL 204)
• Writing Workshop Poetry (EGL 286)
• American Poetry 1900-Present (EGL 606)

Selected Publications:

Books

• When Blackness Rhymes with Blackness: Essays on African American Poetry (Dalkey Archive Press, forthcoming Spring 2010).
• The Ground. Poems. (Xenos Books, forthcoming Spring 2010).

Poems in Journals and Magazines

• “Copper Horse.”  The Southampton Review Volume 3, No 1 (Spring 2009).
• “November Regained.”  The Southampton Review Volume 3, No 1 (Spring 2009).
• “Skärgård.”  The Southampton Review Volume 3, No 1 (Spring 2009).
• “The Creators.”  Jubilat 16 (Spring 2009).
• “Starlings.”  Confrontation 104 (Spring 2009).
• “Grief and the Imaginary Grave.” Tuesday: An Art Project Issue1:3 (Spring 2008).
• “Eurydice.” Chelsea 82/83 (November 2007): 63.
• “Moon Over Meaning.” Chelsea 82/83 (November 2007): 62.
• “Song, A Terminal Song.” Chelsea 82/83 (November 2007): 61.
• “Bench.” Chelsea 82/83 (November 2007): 60.
• “Self-Portrait in Matinée Distances.” Chelsea 82/83 (November 2007): 59.
• “Map, Incomplete, 1660.” Chelsea 82/83 (November 2007): 58.
• “Burnt Into a Blown Apart Wall.” Chelsea 82/83 (November 2007): 57.
• ”Complex 26: Lost at Sea.” Callaloo 30.2 (Special Diaspora Issue) (Spring 2007): 609-614.
• “After Antigua: Finally, for Tim Hector.”  The C.L.R. James Journal 13.1 (Spring 2007).
• “The Greenness of the Earth.”  Tuesday; An Art Project Issue 1:1 (Spring 2007).
• “Tonight.” The New Republic Vol. 235 Issue 15 (9 October 2006): 32.
• “A Vision through the Smoke.” The New Republic Vol. 233 Issue 25 (9 Dec 2005): 36.
• “Closing Night’s Nocturne.” The New Republic Vol. 232 Issue 8 (7 March 2005): 28.
• “Tableau: Derek Walcott.”  Callaloo 28.1 (2005): 87.
• “Echo.” The Iowa Review 34.3 (Winter 2004/2005): 126.
• “Golden.” The New Yorker (26 May 2004): 85.
• “Lower Quartet.” No; A Journal of the Arts 3 (2004): 181-182.
• “Sin Vergüenza.” Harvard Review 23 (Fall 2002):128.
• “La Angelita Necesita . . .” Seneca Review 27.2 (1998): 55-57. 

• “When Blackness Rhymes with Blackness: On Bard and Balladry in Robert Hayden (An Essay in Verse)” The Kenyon Review 26.1 (Winter 2004): 150-156. [Feature Essay at Poetry Daily]
• “The Difficult Archangel: Wilson Harris (An Essay in Verse).”  The C.L.R. James Journal (Winter 1999-2000): 14-19.

• “Derek Walcott: Imagination, Nation, and the Poetics of Memory.” Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism. 11 (February 2002): 112-132.

• “The President’s Whitman.”  Whitman Noir: Essays on Black American and the Good Grey Poet, ed. by Ivy G. Wilson.  Iowa City: University of Iowa Press.  Forthcoming 2009.
• “Homage to Mistress Wheatley.”  A Companion to African American Studies. ed. by Lewis R. Gordon and Jane Anna Gordon.  Oxford: Blackwell, 2006: 171-191.
• “The Blue Century: Brief Notes on African-American Poetry.”  A Concise Companion to 20th Century American Poetry.  ed. by Stephen Fredman.  Oxford: Blackwell, 2005: 135-150.

• “Portrait of the Old Country.” The C.L.R. James Journal 13.1 (Spring 2007).

• The C.L.R. James Journal (Special Commemorative Issue in Memory of Aimé Césaire).  Co-edited with Lewis R Gordon.  Winter 2008 (forthcoming).

• “African American Poetry Anthologies.”  Chicago Review 54:4 (Spring 2009).
• “A Review of Bernadine Evaristo’s The Emperor’s Babe.” Callaloo 27.2 (Spring 2004): 565-569.

• “Purgatorio, Canto XXVI” (by Dante Alighieri), Chelsea 82/83 (November 2007): 64-68.
• “Removal.” (“Mudançes” by Melcion Mateu i Adrover). Made in CataluNYa: Catalan Poets Pay Homage to Pedro Pietri (April 2007): 23. Published and commissioned by the Institut Ramon Llull, Barcelona
•  “Funeral.”  (“Funeral” by Melcion Mateu i Adrover).  Made in CataluNYa: Catalan Poets Pay Homage to Pedro Pietri, (April 2007): 27. Published and commissioned by the Institut Ramon Llull, Barcelona
• “Tied Islands.”  (“Illes Lligades” by Melcion Mateu i Adrover).  Made in CataluNYa: Catalan Poets Pay Homage to Pedro Pietri, (April 2007): 29. Published and commissioned by the Institut Ramon Llull, Barcelona

• “Noir in Five Parts and an Epilogue.”  Best European Fiction 2010, edited by Aleksandar Hemmon (introduction by Zadie Smith).  Dalkey Archive Press: forthcoming January 2010.
• “Continental.” (“Continental” by Vicenç Pagès).  The Review of Contemporary Fiction (New Catalan Fiction).  Vol. XXVIII.  No. 1. (Spring 2008): 79-89.
• “The Madmen’s Ship.”  (“La nau dels bojos” by Albert Sánchez Piñol). The Review of Contemporary Fiction (New Catalan Fiction).  Vol. XXVIII.  No. 1. (Spring 2008): 95-99.

• Antich, Xavier.  “Laboratory of Ideas.” Cultura/s 276 (03 October 2007): 12.
• Bru Sala, Xavier.  “How to discover Catalan culture.” Cultura/s 276 (03 October 2007): 11.
• Casadevall, Gemma.  “’Aus eigener Kraft’.” Cultura/s 276 (03 October 2007): 16.
• Casadevall, Gemma.  “Mercè Rodoreda wearing pyjamas, surrounded by volcanoes and dinosaurs.” Cultura/s 276 (03 October 2007): 16.
• Casadevall, Gemma.  “From the Hitler Xammar and Pla interviewed to the great Jaume Cabré.” Cultura/s 276 (03 October 2007): 17.
• Casadevall, Gemma.  “The hardship of Barbal’s Pyrenean lifestyle seen from Lake Constance.” Cultura/s 276 (03 October 2007): 17.
• Casadevall, Gemma.  “A predator in love with poetry.” Cultura/s 276 (03 October 2007): 17.
• Domínguez, Martí.  “The hostile abyss.” Cultura/s 276 (03 October 2007) Cultura/s 276 (03 October 2007): 12.
• Guillamon, Julià.  “From Modernity to Globalization.” Cultura/s 276 (03 October 2007): 10.
• Marc Àlvaro, Francesc.  “Memory Transgressed.” Cultura/s 276 (03 October 2007): 13.
• Masoliver, Ródenas, J. A.  “Catalonia in Spanish” Cultura/s 276 (03 October 2007): 14.
• Monzó, Quim.  “With Mustard.” Cultura/s 276 (03 October 2007): 15.
• Porcel, Balthasar.  “Frankfurt and the House of Souls.” Cultura/s 276 (03 October 2007): 15.

• Authors of Catalan Literature.  Frankfort 2007.  Barcelona: Institut Ramon Llull, 2007.

• “Stanotte,” (“Tonight” tr. Luigi Fontanella) Journal of Italian Translation 2 (Spring 2007), 168-169.