Pound Biennial

Anderson Araujo is Professor of English and World Literatures at the University of British Columbia. He is the author of A Companion to Ezra Pound’s Guide to Kulchur, and has published articles on T. S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf, and Richard Aldington, among others, as well as the chapter on “Italian Fascism” in The New Ezra Pound Studies (Cambridge). He is currently writing a monograph on modernist cultural politics and the Spanish Civil War. Ron Bush is Drue Heinz Professor of American Literature Emeritus at Oxford University, where he taught from 1997-2013, and a senior fellow both at St. John’s College Oxford and at the Institute for English Studies at the University of London’s School for Advanced Studies. Earlier in his career, Bush taught at Harvard University and Caltech. Among his publications are articles on Eliot, Pound, Joyce, Nabokov, and Roth, as well as the chapter on “Modernist Poetry and Poetics” in The Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century English Literature. His major work in progress is a multi-volume genetic and critical edition of Ezra Pound’s Pisan Cantos.