StephenSicari
Chair, Professor of English
St. John's College of Arts and Sciences
English Department, St. John Hall, Rm. B15
(718) 990-6387
sicaris@stjohns.edu
Office Hours, Spring 2006
Monday: 3:00 - 4:30 P.M.
Tuesday/Wednesday/Thursday: 11:00 - 12:00 P.M.
Education
1986 Ph.D., English Literature and Languages, Cornell
University
1983 M.A., English Literature and Languages, Cornell
University
1979 B.A., Manhattan College, summa cum laude
Awards
2001 Merit Award, St. John's University
1999 Summer Research Grant, St. John's University, (full
award)
1997 Summer Research Grant, St. John's University, (1/2
award)
1997 English Professor of the Year, awarded by Sigma Tau
Delta
1996 Nominated as Teacher of the year by the Student Government
Association
1989 Merit Award for scholarship, Adelphi University
1985 Three-year Continuing Fellowship, Cornell University,
Summer and Fall
1984 The Martin Sampson Teaching fellowship, awarded for
excellence in teaching, Cornell University
1980-1 Sage Graduate Fellowship, Cornell University
1979 Medals for highest achievement in the Liberal Arts, in
Literature, and in Philosophy, awarded by Manhattan College
1979 Member, Phi Beta Kappa, Manhattan College
Publications
Books
Pound's Epic Ambition: Dante and the Modern World. Albany:
State University of New York Press, 1991. (in paper and hard
cover).
Joyce's Modernist Allegory: Ulysses and the History of the
Novel. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press,
2001.
Chapters
"Pound's Modernist Allegory," in Dante e Pound, a
collection of essays published by the Opera di Dante, Ravenna,
Italy, 1998.
Articles
"The Fifth Decad of Cantos," a solicited article-length
entry to be published in The Ezra Pound Encyclopedia,
Greenwood Press, Spring 2002
"Reconstructing Nature: Pound as Archaeologist,"
Paideuma 29.3 (Winter 2000): 133-147.
"Rereading Ulysses: 'Ithaca' and Modernist Allegory,"
Twentieth Century Literature, Fall 1997.
"Poetry and Politics in Pound and Yeats" Paideuma 19.3
(Winter 1990): 65-78.
"'Sirens' and Purgatorio II: Bloom in Purgatory,"
Twentieth-Century Literature 36.4 (Winter 1990):
477-88.
"The Epic Ambition: Reading Dante," Paideuma 19.3
(Winter 1990): 65-78.
"History and Vision in Pound and Dante: A Purgatorial Poetics,"
Paideuma 19.1 & 2 (Spring and Fall 1989): 9-35.
"In Dante's Wake: T.S. Eliot's 'Art of Memory,'"
CrossCurrents 38.4 (Winter 1988-89): 413-34.
"Reading Pound's Politics: Ulysses as a Fascist Hero,"
Paideuma 17.2 & 3, (Fall and Winter 1988): 145-68.
"The Secret of Eleusis, or How Pound Grounds his Epic of
Judgment,''' Paideuma 14.2 & 3 (Fall and Winter 1985),
303-321.
Reviews
Review of Pound in Purgatory by Leon Surette, in
American Jewish Studies, Winter 2001.
Review of Joyce's Comic Portrait by Roy Gottfried,
forthcoming in The James Joyce Quarterly.
Review of Joyce, Dante, and the Poetics of Literary
Relations, by Lucia Boldrini, forthcoming in The James
Joyce Quarterly.
Presentations
"Pound as Archaeologist: Reconstructing Nature," a paper delivered
at the National Poetry Foundations Conference on the Literature of
the 1950's, held June 18-21, 1996 at the University of Maine,
Orono, Maine.
"In Dante's Memory: The Medievalism of Pound, Eliot and Joyce,"
an invited paper given at the Biblioteca Classense, International
Seminar on Pound and Dante, September 8-10, 1995, Ravenna,
Italy.
Chair and respondent, Literature Session, World War II
conference, held at Siena College, May 31-June 2, 1994.
"Let's Mock the Mockers," an invited lecture delivered as the
keynote address at the induction ceremony for Phi Beta Kappa,
Manhattan College, April, 1994.
"The Poet and Propaganda: Pound's Radio Broadcasts," a paper
delivered at the American Literature Association Conference held
May 28-30, 1993 in Baltimore, Maryland.
"The Theme of Nostalgia in Homer and Virgil," an invited lecture
given at Manhattan College, December 2, 1992.
"The Dark Dove with Flickering Tongue: T.S. Eliot's Meditations
on War in Four Quartets, a paper delivered at the World War II
Conference, held June 4-5, 1992 at Siena College.
"The Tower as Symbol of Exile in the Poetry of W.B. Yeats," a
paper delivered as the Central New York MLA, held October 20-22,
1991 at SUNY Cortland.
"Writing Paradise: Pound's late Cantos and Dante's Paradiso," a
lecture delivered at the 14th International Ezra Pound conference,
held July 1991 at Brunnenburg, Tirolo di Merano, Italy.
"Poetry and Politics in Pound and Yeats," a paper delivered at
the 13th International Ezra Pound Conference ("A Pound-Yeats
Celebration Conference"), held August 9-12, 1990, University of
Maine, Orono, Maine.
"Ezra Pound in 1940: The Poet, Propaganda, and the Radio," a
paper delivered at the World War II Conference, May 31-June 1,
1990, at Siena College.
"Pound's Epic hero: Homer, Virgil and Dante in The Pisan
Cantos," a paper delivered at the Mid-Hudson MLA conference, held
November 27,28, 1989, at Marist College.
"Importing Fascism: Ezra Pound in 1939," a paper delivered at
the World War II Conference, held June 1989 at Siena College.
Chair, "Comparative Literature" session of the Adelphi
University Conference on "The Image," held February 25, 1989, at
Adelphi University.
Chair and respondent, "The Exile in Literature," a session of
the Mid-Hudson MLA Conference, held December 1-2, 1988 at Marist
College.
"Memory and Desire in Four Quartets," a paper delivered at "T.S.
Eliot: A Literary Symposium," held April 18-19, 1988, at the
University of New Hampshire.
"The Wanderer as Prophet: Aeneas' Role in The Pisan Cantos," an
invited lecture delivered at Manhattan College's "Dante Seminar,"
March 21, 1988.
"Pound and Dante: Ulysses' Return Home," a paper delivered at
the Mid-Hudson MLA Conference, December 1, 1987, at Marist
College.
"Pound's Politics: Ulysses as Fascist Hero," a lecture delivered
at Adelphi University, March 19, 1987.
"Pound and Dante: A Lyrical History, a paper delivered at the
"Twentieth-Century Literature Conference," September 20-21, 1986,
Cornell University.
Teaching
July 1997-Present, Chair, Department of English, St. John's
University
September 1996-Present, Associate Professor, Department of
English, St. John's University
September 1996-Present, Director, Doctor of Arts Program in
English
September 1992-August 1996-Associate Professor, Department of
English, Adelphi University
September 1986-August 1992- Assistant Professor, Department of
English, Adelphi University
Membership in Professional
Societies
Modern Language Association
Ezra Pound Society
James Joyce Society