Steven Gould Axelrod, Professor
Ph.D. UCLA

(951) 827-1919
steven.axelrod@ucr.edu

Steven Gould Axelrod (B.A., M.A., Ph.D. UCLA) specializes in American literature and particularly American poetry. He has written Robert Lowell: Life and Art (Princeton University Press 1978) and Sylvia Plath: The Wound and the Cure of Words (Johns Hopkins University Press 1990). He is co-author of Robert Lowell: A Reference Guide (G. K. Hall 1982) and has edited or co-edited Robert Lowell: Essays on the Poetry (Cambridge University Press 1986), Critical Essays on Wallace Stevens (G. K. Hall 1988), Critical Essays on William Carlos Williams (G. K. Hall/Macmillan 1995), The Critical Response to Robert Lowell (Greenwood Press 1998), and The New American Poetry, An Anthology: Volume 1, Beginnings to 1900 (Rutgers University Press 2002). He has also published over forty articles. His current research project is a book-length study of Cold War poetry. Interested in composition as well as literature, Professor Axelrod won the UCR Distinguished Teaching Award in 1989, served as Department Chair in 1992-96, and held the NEH Chair in Teaching Excellence in 1999-2002.