Eric Falci
Professor; Department Chair
Wheeler Hall, room 323by appointment
efalci@berkeley.eduSpecialties
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Poetry20th- and 21st-Century BritishIrish
Professional Statement
I joined the faculty at U.C. Berkeley in Fall?2006 after finishing my PhD?at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. ?My first book,?
Continuity and Change in Irish Poetry, 1966-2010,?appeared in 2012. ?A?second book,
The Cambridge Introduction to British Poetry,?1945-2010, was published in 2015; a third,?
The Value of Poetry,?appeared?in 2020.?My first book of poetry,?
Late Along the Edgelands, appeared in 2019.?Currently, I am?continuing to?elaborate?
Poetry and the Problem of Music,?a book about?the conjunctions and disjunctions between poetry and music since the nineteenth century. From July 2017 through June 2021, I?served as?Associate Dean in the Graduate Division.
Books In a series of tattered sequences and oddly-angled lyrics, Late Along the Edgeland?sketches an attenuated present. Remaining within a relatively circumscribed lexis and store of images—those of the littoral, the mid-sea, the edges of several cities c....(read more)
FIELDS:
Poetry
Co-edited by Paige Reynolds and Eric Falci,?Irish Literature in Transition, 1980–2020 elucidates the central features of Irish literature during the twentieth century's long turn, covering its significant trends and formations, reassessing its major ....(read more)
FIELDS:
Irish
"Drawing on an ample range of contemporary sources, Falci explores how?poetry uses its formal wiles and intuitive craft to respond to the world it?must answer to and which?inflects its thinking, language choices and physical?stance... A stylish, prov....(read more)
FIELDS:
Poetry
Selected Publications and Papers Delivered
Monographs
The Value of Poetry?(Cambridge UP, 2020)
The Cambridge Introduction to British Poetry, 1945-2010?(Cambridge UP, 2015)
Continuity and Change in Irish Poetry, 1966-2010 (Cambridge UP, 2012 [paperback, 2019])
Edited Collection
Irish Literature in Transition, Volume VI: 1980-2020, co-edited with Paige Reynolds?(Cambridge UP,?2020)
Essays
“Poetry and Place”, in?A History of Irish Literature and the Environment, edited by Malcolm Sen?(Cambridge UP, 2022)
“Modern Irish Poetry and the Heresy of Modernism”, in?The Edinburgh Companion to Irish Modernism?(Edinburgh UP, 2021)
“‘Image of Something Without Images’: Seeing Poems in?The Face of the Earth", Review of Irish Studies in Europe?(2021)
“Lyric Narratives: The Experimental Aesthetics of Irish Poetry,” in the Routledge Handbook of Irish Studies?(Routledge, 2021)
“Maurice Scully’s?Several Dances?and the Play of Genre”,?in?A Line of Tiny Zeros in the Fabric: Essays on the Poetry of Maurice Scully (Shearsman Books, 2020)
“Northern Irish Poetry”, in?The New Irish Studies: Twenty-First-Century Critical Revisions?(Cambridge UP, 2020)
“Rethinking Form (Yet Again) in Contemporary Irish Poetry”, in the?Irish University Review (Summer 2020)
“The Problems of Lateness”?[review of Ann Keniston's Ghostly Figures: Memory and Belatedness in Postwar American Poetry],?in Twentieth Century Literature (volume?63.1,?Spring 2017)
“Contemporary Irish Poetry and the Problem of the Subject”,?in Post-Ireland? Essays on Contemporary Irish Poetry (Wake Forest UP, 2017)
“Beyond All That Fiddle”,?in?The Cambridge Companion to British Poetry, 1945-2010?(Cambridge UP, 2015)
“Stony Limits: Modernist Peripheries”,?in the Cambridge History of Modernist Poetry (Cambridge UP, 2015)
“Joinery: Trevor Joyce’s Lattice Poems”,?in Essays on the Poetry of Trevor Joyce (Shearsman Books, 2015)
“Translation as Collaboration: Ní Dhomhnaill and Muldoon”,?in the Oxford?Handbook of Modern Irish Poetry?(Oxford UP, 2012)
“Reading in the Gutters”,?in Modern Irish and Scottish Poetry: Comparative Readings (Cambridge UP, 2011)
“Meehan’s Stanzas and Irish Lyric After Yeats”,?in An Sionnach: A Journal of Literature, Culture, and the Arts?(Spring/Summer 2009)
“Space, Place and Landscape”,?in the Blackwell Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Poetry?(Wiley-Blackwell,?2009)
Current Research
I am currently working?on?Poetry and the Problem of Music.
English Department Classes
spring, 2021
45C/1
Literature in English: Mid-19th through the 20th Century
Introductory Surveys
45C/101 -- discussion section
No instructor assigned yet.
45C/102 -- discussion section
Choi, Lindsay
45C/103 -- discussion section
Nyiri, Jesse
45C/104 -- discussion section
Nyiri, Jesse
45C/105 -- discussion section
Nieto, Rebecca Maria
45C/106 -- discussion section
Nieto, Rebecca Maria
spring, 2020
126/1
British Literature, 1900-1945
British 20th- and 21st-Century
Novel
Poetry
126/101 -- discussion section
Yniguez, Rudi
126/102 -- discussion section
Yniguez, Rudi
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