DIANE WOOD
MIDDLEBROOK
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Education
Honors and Awards
Phi Beta Kappa, 1961
Woodrow
Wilson Fellowship, 1961
Albert S. Cook Memorial Prize for Poetry,
Yale, 1962
Danforth Teaching Fellowship, Yale, 1964-5
Theron Rockwell Field Prize for doctoral
dissertation, Yale, 1968
University Fellow, Stanford, 1975-7
Dean's Award for Distinguished Teaching,
Stanford, 1977
NEH Fellowship for Independent Study and
Research, 1982-3
Fellow of the Bunting Institute, Radcliffe
College, 1982-3
Fellow of the Stanford Humanities Center,
1983-4
Pew Foundation Faculty Research Grant,
Stanford, 1987
Walter J. Gores Award for Excellence in Teaching,
Stanford, 1987
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
Fellowship, 1988-9
Richard W. Lyman Award for Service to
Stanford, Alumni Association, 1989
Fellow of the
Finalist, National Book Award (for Anne Sexton), 1991
Finalist, National Book
Bay Area Books Reviewers Award, Non-fiction (for
Anne Sexton), 1992
Commonwealth Club of
Selection Committee, Pulitzer Prize for
Biography, 1995
Finalist, Lambda Foundation Literary Award
(for Suits Me), 1999
Honorary Doctor of Letters,
Finalist, Bay Area Books Reviewers Award,
Non-fiction (for Her Husband), 2004
Honorary Member, Christ’s College,
Advisory
Board, Christ’s Research Institute, 2004-
Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (
Chair, Panel on Non-Fiction, National Book
Awards, 2004
Honorary Doctor of Letters,
Elected Member, The Athenaeum Club,
Professional Appointments
Assistant Professor of English, Stanford
University, 1966-73
Visiting Associate Professor,
Associate Professor of English, Stanford
University, 1974-83
Director, Center for Research on Women,
Stanford University, 1977-79
Associate Dean, Undergraduate Studies,
Stanford University, 1979-82
Professor of English,
Chair, Program in Feminist Studies, 1985-88
Howard H. &
Professor of English,
Professor of English, Emerita:
Membership in Professional
Organizations
Member, Modern Language Association, 1966-
Trustee, Djerassi Resident Artists Program,
1980-1996; Chair of the Board, 1994
Advisory Board,
Member, Investigative Reporters & Editors,
1995-99
Editorial Board, Chadwyck-Healey LION (Literature
Online), 1997-99
Advisory Board, Humanities West (
Member,
Member, International Association of
University Professors of English, 1999-2002
Member, Biographers Club,
Member, The Authors Guild, 2001-
Member, Commonwealth Club of
Member, English PEN,
Publications
BOOKS
Walt Whitman and Wallace
Stevens.
Worlds Into Words:
Understanding Modern Poems,
1980
Gin Considered as a Demon (poems),
1983
Coming to Light: American
Women Poets in the 20th Century (essays), ed. Diane
Wood Middlebrook and Marilyn Yalom.
Press, 1985
Selected Poems of Anne
Sexton, ed.
with an introduction by Diane Wood Middlebrook
and Diana Hume George,
Anne Sexton, A Biography,
Books,
1992
Suits Me: The Double Life
of Billy Tipton,
Her Husband: Hughes & Plath,
a Marriage,
Books, 2004
Foreign and
other editions of books
Anne Sexton: A Biography
German: Zwischen
Therapie und Tod: Das Leben der Dichterin Anne Sexton, translated
by Barbara
von Bechtolsheim und Silvia Morawetz,
Italian: Anne Sexton: Una Vita, translated by Claudia Rusconi, Gloria Gordigiani;
poems translated by Stefano De Angelis,
Portugese: Anne Sexton: A Morte Não É A Vida, translated by Raul de Sá Barbosa, São
Paulo: Editora Siciliano, 1994
Spanish: Anne Sexton, Una Biografía, translated by Roser Berdagué,
Circe
Ediciones, S.A, 1998
Suits Me: The Double Life
of Billy Tipton
Audiobook: Suits Me: The Double Life of Billy Tipton, unabridged, read by Mary
Peiffer,
Chinese: Suits Me: The Double Life of Billy Tipton, translated by Zhu
En-ling,
Dutch: Maatwerk:
Het dubbelleven van jazzmusicus Billy Tipton, die na zijn dood een
vrouw
bleek te zijn, translated by Carla Benink,
German: Er War
Eine Frau: Das Doppelleben des Jazzmusikers Billy Tipton, translated
by Uta
Goridis. München: Piper Verlag Gmbh, 1999
Japanese:
Her Husband: Hughes and Plath, a Marriage
Audiobook: Her Husband:
Hughes and Plath— a Marriage.
Unabridged, read by Bernadette Dunne.
Dutch.
French.
Italian.
Korean.
Polish.
ARTICLES
"David
Henderson's Holy Mission" (interview with poet David Henderson), Saturday
Review,
"Bound
Each to Each" (retrospective review of the poetry of Allen Ginsberg),
135; reprinted in Modern Poetry Criticism, 14 vols., ed. Harold Bloom, Chelsea
House, 1987
"Making
Visible the Common World: Walt Whitman and Feminist Poetry," The Kenyon
Review, New Series, Vol. 2, No. 4, Fall 1980, pp.
14-27
"Housewife
into Poet: The Apprenticeship of Anne Sexton," The
Quarterly, Vol. LVI, No. 4, December
1983, pp. 483-503
"Joyce
Carol Thomas," Women Writers of the
West Coast, ed. Marilyn Yalom, Santa
Barbara: Capra Press, 1984, pp. 31-39
"The
Problem of the Woman Artist: Louise Bogan, 'The Alchemist,'" Critical Essays on
Louise Bogan, ed. Martha Collins,
"Becoming
Anne Sexton," The
34; reprinted in Anne Sexton:Telling the Tale,
ed. Steven E. Colburn, Ann
Arbor:
"Poet
of Weird Abundance (Anne Sexton),"
No. 2 and Vol. 13, No. 1,
Spring/Summer/Fall/Winter, 1985, pp. 293-315; reprinted
in Anne
Sexton: Telling the Tale, ed. Colburn (op. cit.) pp. 447-470; and excerpted
in Critical
Essays
on Anne Sexton, ed. Linda Wagner-Martin,
"1957:
Anne Sexton's Bedlam," Pequod,
special issue on biography/autobiography,
No.s 23-24, 1988, pp. 131-142; reprinted in Critical Essays on Anne Sexton,
ed. Wagner-Martin (op.cit.), pp. 239-246
"Anne
Sexton at the Radcliffe Institute,"
Sexton: Selected Criticism, ed. Diana Hume
George,
"Seduction
in Anne Sexton's
Hume George (
"Anne
Sexton and Robert Lowell," Original
Essays on Anne Sexton, ed. Frances Bixler,
"Foreword,"
Love Poems, by Anne Sexton, Bosotn: Houghton
Mifflin Company, 1989
"Postmodernism
and the Biographer," Revealing
Lives: Gender in Autobiography and
Biography, ed. Susan Bell and
Marilyn Yalom.
"Spinning
Straw into Gold: A Biographer's Story," Stanford Magazine, June
1991, pp.
47-50; reprinted in The Literary Biography: Problems and Solutions, ed. Dale
Salwak.
"Psychotherapy
as Theme and Influence in the Work of Anne Sexton," Psychotherapy,
Vol. 29, No. 2, Spring 1992, pp. 401-409
"Anne
Sexton, James Wright, and the Making of The
Awful Rowing Toward God," The
Library Chronicle, Vol. 21, No. 1 &
2, 1992, pp. 223-235
"The
Ethics of Disclosure," Letters: The
Journal of the Royal Society of Literature
(
"What
Was Confessional Poetry?" The
"Channeling
Plath," Mirabella, December
1993, pp. 72-75
"Where
All the Ladders Start (Philip Larkin),"
Winter 1994, pp. 751-756
"Tillie
Olsen and Anne Sexton at the Radcliffe Institute," Listening to Silences: New
Essays in Feminist Criticism, ed. Elaine Hedges and Shelley Fishkin,
"Anne
Sexton," The Dictionary of American
Biography,
Sons, 1994, pp. 711-712
“Telling
Secrets,” The Seductions of Biography,
ed. Mary Rhiel and David Suchoff,
“Anne
Sexton,” The Dictionary of Literary
Biography, Volume 169: American Poets
Since World War II, ed. Joseph Conte,
Layman, Inc., 1996, pp. 244-53
“Preface,”
Aphorisms, Poems & Tailed Passages, by Fabio Massimo Faggi, San
Francisco: Pince-nez Press, 1998
“Poetic Justice for Sylvia Plath,” New York Times,
“The
Biographer as Investigative Journalist,” IRE
Journal, May-June 1998, pp. 9-11
“Introduction,”
The Bell Jar, by Sylvia Plath.
1998, pp vii-xviii
“Ian
McKellan Reads The Odyssey,” Joe, vol 1, number 1, June 1999, p. 179
“Sylvia
& Ted, a Potboiler,” Chronicle of
Higher Education,
“The
Writing Life: Biographer’s Dream,” Washington
Post Book World,
“In
Search of the Autobiography of Ted Hughes,” Ted
Hughes: Alternative Horizons
ed. Joanny Moulin,
“Misremembering
Ted Hughes,” The Ethics of Life Writing,
ed John Paul Eakin,
University Press, 2004, pp.40-50
“Vivam:
I Shall Live On,” The Royal Society of
Literature Review, 2005, pp. 40-44
“Stevens in the Marriage of Sylvia Plath and Ted
Hughes,” The Wallace Stevens Journal,
Winter
2006, pp.
42 - 51
“Call
and Response in the Poetry of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes,” The
Sylvia Plath, ed. Jo Gill,
“Bad Moments: Autobiography in ‘The Rabbit
Catcher,’” The Unraveling Archive: Essays on
Sylvia Plath, ed. Anita Helle,
“Hughes, Plath and Three Caryatids” (essays commissioned for the
celebration of Sylvia Plath’s 75 th
birthday), ed Sally Bayley,
POEMS
"Aubade,"
"Maya," The Southern Review,
Vol. IX, Winter 1973, pp. 186-87
"Two
Poems for Christopher Caudwell, Dead in
Vol. XI, Spring 1975, pp. 428-429
"You,
Seated Near a Lamp," "One Woman Looking at Another," "On
Jealousy
Considered as Health," "Water,
Fire, Earth, Air," "The Story of My Life," "Musée du
Louvre: Mercure Attachant Sa
Talonnière," "Without Selection," "Eating Snow in the
Sierras," Sequoia Twentieth Anniversary Issue: Poetry 1956-1976. Stanford,
1976,
pp. 53-58
"
(1977), p. 61
"At
Yad Va'Shem," The
"You,
Seated Near a Lamp," "One Woman Looking at Another," reprinted
in Networks:
An
Anthology of Bay Area Women Poets, ed. Carol Simone.
"Losing
You," ("Aveda") translated into Hebrew by Amos Oz, Shdemot, No. 69. Tel
Aviv, 1979, p. 100
"February
Afternoon, in a Boat on the
a Demon," "Carl Uncovers a Bed
of Wild Strawberries," Worlds Into
Words:
Understanding Modern Poems.
Sequence,
Four Episodes in a Contagion of Dreams:
"The Contagiousness of Dreams," "Carol's
Dream of Diana," "Lost
Prince," "To You, Falling Asleep After a Quarrel," The
Southern Review, Vol. XVI, Spring 1980,
pp. 416-417. Reprinted in Anthology of
Magazine
Verse Yearbook of American Poetry, 1981 Edition, ed. Stan F.
Pater.
Monitor Book Company, Inc., 1981
"The
Deviousness of Objects of Desire," "
Magazine, Vol. 5, No. 13 (September 1982), p. 36
"One
Woman Looking at Another," set by Conrad Cummings in song cycle Five Songs
for
HWH,
"After
Klee's Geschwister,"
"Buddhist Prayer Flags from
1986, p.108
"
"November:
Pamela's Ghost," The Harbinger,
Vol.VII, No.11 (March 1989), p.3
“Hair,”
American Poets Say Goodbye to the
Twentieth Century, ed. Andrei Codrescu and Laura
Rosenthal.
BOOK REVIEWS
"A
Modern Thoreau with Nightmares" (review of In Deep: Country Essays, by Maxine Kumin), San Francisco Chronicle Review,
"Forever
in Amber" (review of Sylvia Plath, A
Biography, by Linda Wagner-Martin), The
Nation, Volume 245, Number 18, 28 November 1987, pp. 656-659
"A
Novelist's Eye for Poetry" review
of Available Light, by Marge Piercy),
San Francisco Chronicle Review,
"The
Life of a Good Old Girl" (review of
Close Connections, Caroline Gordon and the Southern Renaissance, by Ann
Waldron), The Hudson Review, Vol.
XLI, No. 3, Autumn 1988), pp. 581- 585
"The
Enraged Muse" (review of Bitter
Fame, A Life of Sylvia Plath, by Anne Stevenson), Times Literary Supplement (
"Western
Literature's Underside" (review of
Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination, by Toni
Morrison), Los Angeles Times Book Review,
"A
Journey to Bedlam and Back" (review of Girl,
Interrupted, by Susanna Kaysen), The
Washington Post Book World,
"Son
Bathed in Astral Light" (review of My
Father's Guru, by Jeffrey Masson), The
Independent on Sunday (
"The
Age Mystique" (review of The
Fountain of Age, by Betty Friedan),
Los Angeles Times Book Review,
"Channeling
Plath" (review of The Silent Woman,
by Janet Malcolm), Mirabella,
December 1993, pp. 72-75.
"Where
All the Ladders Start" (review of Philip
Larkin: A Writer's Life, by Andrew Motion), The Hudson Review, Volume XLVI, Number 4 , Winter 1994, pp. 751-756
“She Knew What She Wanted” (review of Life of the Party: The Biography of Pamela
Digby Churchill Hayward Harriman, by Christopher Ogden), The Washington Post Book World,
“Robert
Lowell’s Life Again, Alas” (review of Lost
Puritan, by Paul Mariani), Boston
Globe,
“Do
Clothes Reveal the Man?”(review of Sex
and Suits: The Evolution of Modern Dress, by Anne Hollander), Los Angeles Times Book Review,
“The Analyst
and Her Appetites”(review of Karen Horney,
by Bernard J. Paris), The Washington Post
Book World,
“Portrait
of a Lady” (review of The Art of Scandal:
The Life and Times of Isabella Stewart Gardner, by Douglass Shand-Tucci), New York Times Book Review,
“Helen
Keller's Search for Self-Expression,” (review of Helen Keller, A Life, by Dorothy Hermann) San Francisco Chronicle Review,
“What
It Means to Be a Woman” (review of Woman:
An Intimate Geography, by Natalie Angier), San Francisco Chronicle Review,
“Anatomy
of Suicide” (review of Night Falls Fast,
by Kay Redfield Jamison, and Where the
Roots Reach for Water, by Jeffrey Smith), San Francisco Chronicle Review,
“Acocella
Criticizes Cather’s Critics,” (review of
Willa Cather and the Politics of
Criticism, by Joan Acocella), San
Francisco Chronicle Review,
“In Plath’s Full Journals, a Lusty Embrace of Life”
(review of The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath, ed Karen Kukil), Boston
Globe,
“Footnotes
on Ted and Sylvia” (review of Crow Steered, Bergs Appeared:
A
Memoir of Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath, by Lucas Myers, and Sylvia and Ted, by
Emma Tennant), San Francisco Chronicle
Datebook,
“A Poet’s Career in Reviews” (review of Selected
Prose, by John Ashbery), Los Angeles Times Book Review,
Review of De Kooning: an American Master, by
Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan, Women’s Studies Quartlery, vol. 33, nos. 3 & 4
(Fall/Winter 2005): issue on Gender and
Culture in the 1950s, ed.
Deborah Nelson
Review
of Longo,
ELECTRONIC MEDIA
Audio
"The
Sound of Poems," audio tape to accompany Worlds Into Words,
Enterprises, 1978
Video
"Twentieth
Century British and American Poetry: Yeats, Eliot, Thomas, Crane, Stevens,
Roethke" (18 fifty-minute black and
white videotape lectures), Stanford, 1977
"Twentieth
Century Women's Writing as Critique and Vision: Woolf, Cather, Stein,
Hellman, Didion, Lessing, Sexton, Morrison,
Rich, Wittig" (19 fifty-minute color
videotape lectures), Stanford, 1981
"The
Poetry of Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath," Great Teachers, Great Texts (video
series produced by the Stanford Alumni
Association with the Stanford Department of
English), Stanford, 1993
Pilot
series, Cover to Cover: Conversations
with Writers about
produced by The Stanford Channel and
televised over Channel 51, spring/summer 1999:
“Life Writing,” Diane Middlebrook in
conversation with Arnold Rampersad and Tobias
Wolff
“Literary Prizes,” Diane Middlebrook in
conversation with Evan Boland and Nicholas
Jenkins
CD-ROM
Finding the Girlfriends:
The Biographer as Investigative Journalist (A Multimedia
Showcase), designed and programmed
with Jay Dempster at the University of
Journalism and Literary Scholarship,”
sponsored by the Department of English at the
WORK IN PROGRESS
A
biography of the Roman poet Ovid, to be published by Viking / Putnam, 2008
