Marianna Hagler

Marianna Hagler is a lecturer in the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of Michigan. She specializes in modern and contemporary American literature, poetry and poetics, and psychoanalysis. She is working on a monograph titled Mother of Us All: Gertrude Stein and the Poetics of Reverie, arguing that the twentieth-century literary avant-garde adapted Stein's work to promote alternatives to conventional academic practices of poetic interpretation. An article from the project, "Reading in Reverie: Identifying Anne Carson's Gertrude Stein," is forthcoming in PMLA.