EDUCATION

B.A., Manhattan College
M.A., Colgate University
Ph.D., Graduate Center of the City University of New York

ACADEMIC PROFILE

Academic specializations: twentieth-century American and British poetry, biography, religion and literature, and creative writing. Prof. Mariani is currently working on biographies of Gerard Manley Hopkins and Wallace Stevens.

COURSES

 EN649.01 - Seminar: Poetry & Catholic Traditions

 EN656.01 - Seminar: Stevens & Williams

 EN852.01 - World According to Gerard Manley Hopkins

PUBLICATIONS (SELECTED)

• Deaths & Transfigurations: Poems (2005)
• God and the Imagination: Poetry, Poets, and the Ineffable (2002).
• Thirty Days: On Retreat with the Exercises of St. Ignatius (2002).
• The Broken Tower: A Life of Hart Crane (1999).
• The Great Wheel: Poems (1996).
• Lost Puritan: A Life of Robert Lowell (1994).
• Salvage Operations: New & Selected Poems (1990).
• Dream Song: The Life of John Berryman (1990).
• Prime Mover: Poems (1985).
• A Useable Past: Essays on Modern and Contemporary Poetry (1984).
• Crossing Cocytus: Poems (1982).
• William Carlos Williams: A New World Naked (1981).
• Timing Devices: Poems (1977).
• William Carlos Williams: the Poet and His Critics (1975).
• A Commentary on the Complete Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins (1970).

ADDITIONAL PROFESSIONAL INFORMATION

Professor Mariani has published over 200 essays and reviews and is the author of fourteen books, including five books of poetry: Timing Devices, Crossing Cocytus, Prime Mover, Salvage Operations: New and Selected, and the Great Wheel, and Death &Transfigurations: Poems. His awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship and several National Endowment of the Arts and National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships.