Bill Fogarty

Department of English

Associate Professor
Director, Graduate Programs

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William.Fogarty@ucf.edu

Campus Location

Trevor Colbourn Hall 251F

Education

Ph.D. in English from University of Oregon
M.Phil. in Irish Literature from Trinity College, Dublin
M.F.A. in Poetry from Brooklyn College, City University of New York
B.A. in English from State University of New York at New Paltz

Research Interests

Modern and Contemporary English-Language Poetry and Poetics; Twentieth-Century and Twenty-First Century Poetry; Modernism; American, British, and Irish Literature

Publications

Books

The Politics of Speech in Later Twentieth-Century Poetry: Local Tongues in Heaney, Brooks, Harrison, and Clifton. Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics. Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. Reviewed in Modern Philology (February 2024) and Genre (July 2024).

Articles/Essays

Forthcoming “Queer Light: Henri Cole’s Forms of Knowledge,” Paideuma: Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics. Vol. 53, 2025.
“The Sound of Seamus Heaney’s Sense: Robert Frost’s Influence on Heaney’s Poetics.” The Comparatist, vol. 45, 2021, pp. 204-28.
“‘You know all them things’: Nostalgia, Idealization, and Speech in Twentieth-Century Working-Class Poetry." Working-Class Poetry and Poetics. Special issue of The Journal of Working-Class Studies, vol. 5, no. 3, 2020, pp. 8-21.
"The Rhubarbarian's Redress: Tony Harrison and the Politics of Speech." Twentieth-Century Literature, vol. 66, no. 2, 2020, pp. 207–31.
“Wallace Stevens in America Thinks of Himself as Thomas MacGreevy.” The Wallace Stevens Journal, vol. 35, no. 1, 2011, pp. 79-97.

Book Sections/Chapters

Forthcoming "Plath's Sounds." The Routledge Companion to Sylvia Plath. Routledge, 2026.
“Double Agent: The Redress of Seamus Heaney’s Prose Poetry.” The Frontier of Writing: A Study of Seamus Heaney’s Prose, edited by Ian Hickey and Eugene O’Brien, Routledge, 2024, pp. 51–70.
Forthcoming
“Rawest Radical Material: Teaching Poetry’s Diction.” Teaching Poetry Now,
edited by Caroline Gelmi and Elizabeth LeRud, SUNY Press.
Forthcoming “Frost’s Human Voices: Teaching with ‘The Sound of Sense.’” Approaches to Teaching the Poetry of Robert Frost (MLA Approaches to Teaching World Literature Series).

Creative Publications

“A Marriage.” Skidrow Penthouse 8
“Heroes.” A Gathering of the Tribes 9
“Gossip.” NY Arts Magazine 19
“Trick Candles.” NY Arts Magazine 19
“Breaking.” Lungfull Magazine 5
“You Want Me?” Brooklyn Review 15
“Fist.” Excursus Literary Arts Journal

Conference Papers/Presentations

“Queer Light: Henri Cole's Forms of Knowledge.” American Literature Association Symposium on American Poetry, November 2024.
“‘We Come to Languages’: Lucille Clifton’s Multi-Tongues.” Furious Flower IV: Celebrating the Worlds of Black Poetry, September 2024.
“Teaching Diction in Teaching Poetry Now.” Modernist Studies Association, October
2023.
“Teaching Diction as Anti-Oppressive Practice.” Modern Language Association, January 2023.
“September Songs: Forms of Doubt in 9/11 Poems.” Modern Language Association, January 2023.
“New Forms, New Words: Diction in Twenty-First Century American Poetry.” Northeast Modern Language Association, March 2022.
“Voices of Violence: Colloquial Language in Twentieth-Century Poems of Political Violence.” Modern Language Association, January 2022.
“Resisting Ruin: The Persistence of Sound in Sylvia Plath and Gwendolyn Brooks.” Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association, November 2021.
"Rawest Radical Material: Teaching Poetry’s Diction," American Comparative Literature Association, April 2021.
“Revision Is Revelation: Seamus Heaney’s Drafts.” Modern Language Association, January 2021.
“Revurlooshunairy Vurse”: Forms of Disorder in Poems of Unrest.” South Atlantic Modern Language Association, November 2020
"Oracular Vernacular: Lucille Clifton's Spirit Writing." American Literature Association Symposium on American Poetry, February 2020.
“‘You know all them things’: Nostalgia, Sentiment, and Speech in Working-Class Poetry.” Modern Language Association, January 2020.
“Communal Tongues: The Politics of Poetic Language.” Society for Comparative Literature and the Arts, October 2019.
“‘There is no other way to say this’: The Political Aesthetics of Prose Poems.” International Conference on Poetry Studies, London Centre for Interdisciplinary Research, September 2019.
“Tunes Born of Outrage: Terrance Hayes, Gwendolyn Brooks, and Lucille Clifton.” Northeast Modern Language Association, March 2019.
“Mortal Tongues: Lucille Clifton’s Socio-Spiritual Admonitions.” Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry, Emory University, February 2018.
“Seamus Heaney, Local Speech, and the Archive,” Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry, Emory University, September 2017.
“Local Emblems of Adversity: The Sound of Seamus Heaney’s Sense.” American Literature Association, May 2015.
“The Gwendolynian Tongue: Diction and Form in the Poetry of Gwendolyn Brooks.” Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association, October 2014.
“‘Things Are Not What They Seem’: Longfellow’s Lyric Poems.” Northeast Modern Language Association, April 2014.
“Vitalizing the Nation: Modernism and Nationalism in the Small Magazines of the Irish Free State.” University of Oregon Graduate Research Conference, February 2012.

Awards

UCF Research Incentive Award, 2023

UCF Seed Funding Exploratory Research Award, 2021

N.E.H. Postdoctoral Fellowship in Poetics, Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry, Emory University, 2017-2018

Sherwood Travel Award, University of Oregon, 2015

NeMLA Travel Award, Northeast Modern Language Association, 2014

Course #	Course	Title	Mode	Days/Times	Syllabus
82550	ENG6950	Capstone Course	In Person (P)	W 6:00 PM - 8:50 PM	Unavailable
This class will concentrate on the professional practices of the discipline of English, focusing on the academic conventions of research and writing and strategies for positioning the English Master’s degree toward academic and nonacademic professions. The course centers on revising previous graduate writing toward the goal of publication. We will work on developing productive writing habits, peer collaboration and support, and self-assessment. Students will research presentation and publication venues, prepare abstracts, refine theoretical and critical methodologies, revise essays, and participate in peer review. Students will work together on developing and articulating their individual professional profiles. The class will also be responsible for producing the annual English Symposium held the following spring.

Course #	Course	Title	Mode	Days/Times	Syllabus
20235	AML3273	Beat Lit & Mid-century Writers	Web-Based (W)	7:00 PM - 7:00 PM	Unavailable
POST-1865 and DIVERSITY. Mid-Century American society was prosperous for some but also severely constrained by institutionalized racial segregation, McCarthyism and the red scare, and rampant sexism and sexual repression. Young American writers often positioned their work squarely against those restraints. What we now call the Beat Generation in many ways epitomized such literary repudiation. This course will examine the radical poetry and prose of seminal Beat writers such as Burroughs, Corso, Ferlinghetti, Ginsberg, Kerouac, and Snyder as well as lesser-known works by women beat writers (di Prima, Jones, Waldman). We will also read key works of the contemporaneous literary endeavors of confessionalism, Black Arts poetry, and the New York School. Throughout, we will pay attention to the legacy of the Beats and their mid-century contemporaries, locating influences in present-day literature.