Cynthia Hogue

Professor, and Marshall Chair in Modern and Contemporary Poetry

Office: LL302C
Phone: 480-965-7745
Cynthia.Hogue@asu.edu

Cynthia Hogue completed her Masters in Arts and Humanities (later the Buffalo Poetics Program) at SUNY/Buffalo, received a Fulbright Fellowship to Iceland, where she lived and taught at the University of Iceland for three years, and completed a Ph.D. at the University of Arizona.  She first taught in the MFA program at the University of New Orleans, where she also directed the Women’s Center and trained in diversity issues in the multicultural classroom (writing an experimental essay with two of her former students some years later entitled "Talking the Talk and Walking the Walk: Poetry and Identity in the Multicultural Classroom," published in Feminist Teacher).  She then directed the Stadler Center for Poetry  at Bucknell University, where she also taught English and Creative Writing   While in Pennsylvania, she trained in conflict resolution with the Mennonites and became a trained mediator specializing in diversity issues in education.   She is currently the Maxine and Jonathan Marshall Chair in Modern and Contemporary Poetry and teaches in the Department of English at Arizona State University. 

She has published five collections of poetry:  Where the Parallels Cross (Whiteknights Press 1984), The Woman in Red (Ahsahta Press 1989), The Never Wife (Mammoth Press 1999), Flux (New Issues Press 2002), and The Incognito Body (Red Hen Press 2006).  Her critical work includes Scheming Women: Poetry, Privilege, and the Politics of Subjectivity (SUNY P, 1995), and the following co-edited editions: We Who Love To Be Astonished: Experimental Feminist Poetics and Performance Art (U of Alabama P, 2001), Innovative Women Poets: An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry and Interviews (U of Iowa P, 2006), and the first edition of H.D.’s The Sword Went Out to Sea (Synthesis of a Dream), by Delia Alton (UP of Florida, 2007).   Her books and essays on poetry, ranging from that of Emily Dickinson to Kathleen Fraser and Harryette Mullen, have explored the possibilities for ethical, poetic subjects and the transformation of consciousness.