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Florian Gargaillo

Florian Gargaillo

Professor

Languages & Literature

 

  • Ph.D. English Literature, Boston University, 2018.
  • M.A. English Literature, Boston University, 2012.
  • M.A. English Literature, Université de Bourgogne, France, 2011.
  • LLCE English Literature, Université de Bourgogne, France, 2009.

Books

  1. Echo & Critique: Poetry and the Clichés of Public Speech (Louisiana State University Press, 2023).
  2. Queer Allusion: Poetic Connections from Wilde to Ginsberg (Louisiana State University Press, 2025).

Selected Recent Articles

  1. “Like Torn, Unanswered Letters: Elizabeth Bishop’s Similes.” Modern Philology 123.3 (2026): 377-394.
  2. “Claude McKay’s Historical Imagination.” Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism 29.3 (2025): 1-16.
  3. “Louise Glück at the Window.” College Literature 52.3 (2025): 307-329.
  4. “The Ambivalent Elegies of Gwendolyn Brooks.” MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States 49.2 (2024): 93-109.
  5. “Invisible Labor in William Carlos Williams.” William Carlos Williams Review 40.2 (2023): 165-185.
  6. “Dorothy Parker Among the Poets.” Literary Imagination 25.1 (2023): 53-67.
  7. “Graffiti and the British Postwar Poem.” Genre: Forms of Discourse and Culture 55.2 (2022): 141-159.
  8. “Adrienne Rich’s Cartographies: Maps and Mapping in the Poetry and Prose.” Arizona Quarterly 78.2 (2022): 121-143.
  9. “Queer Allusion: Wilde, Housman, Cullen.” Modern Language Quarterly 83.1 (2022): 57-80.
  10. “Langston Hughes, the Blues, and the Distance between Poetry and Song.” Modernism/modernity 28.3 (2021): 497-509.
  11. “‘Unknown and Unknowable’: Animal Selves in the Bird Poems of E.E. Cummings.” Philological Quarterly 100.2 (2021): 209-230.
  12. “Louise Glück and Dialogue.” Paideuma: Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics 45 (2021): 223-240.
  13. “The Divided Selves of Edna St. Vincent Millay.” Literary Imagination 23.1 (2021): 69-79.
  14. “Wistful Lies and Civil Virtues: Randall Jarrell on World War II Propaganda.” Journal of Modern Literature 43.3 (2020): 45-63.
  15. “Philip Larkin and Envy.” Essays in Criticism 70.2 (2020): 199-220.
  16. “Knowing Limits: Adrienne Rich in Rhyme.” Twentieth-Century Literature 65.4 (2019): 393-410.
  17. “Relations to Knowledge: The Trope of the Book in Stevens’s Poetry.” The Wallace Stevens Journal 42.2 (2018): 176-190.
  18. “Seamus Heaney and the Clichés of Public Talk.” Philological Quarterly 97.1 (2018): 97-119.
  19. “Kamau Brathwaite’s Rhythms of Migration.” The Journal of Commonwealth Literature 53.1 (2018): 155-168.
  20. “‘Echoes of Cruelty and Nonsense’ in Stevie Smith.” Modern Language Quarterly 79.1 (2018): 81-104.