Leonard Orr
Professor and Academic Director of Liberal Arts Tri Cities
Biography
Ph.D., Ohio State University
Leonard Orr is Academic Director of Liberal Arts and Professor of English at the Tri-Cities campus of Washington State University. He is the author or editor of thirteen books of literary criticism or critical theory including A Dictionary of Critical Theory (1991) and A Joseph Conrad Companion (1999). His most recent books are Joyce, Imperialism, and Postcolonialism (Syracuse University Press, 2008), and Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw (Continuum, 2009). He was named the Lewis E. and Stella G. Buchanan Distinguished Professor of English (2005-08). His teaching and research interests include narrative theory, representations of the Holocaust, literatures of exile and diaspora, and 19th and 20th century literature. His poetry has appeared in many journals including Black Warrior Review, Fugue, Poetry International, Poetry East, Natural Bridge, Isotope, Midwest Poetry Review, Pontoon, and Rosebud. His poetry chapbook, Daytime Moon, was published in 2005 by FootHills Press, and his book, Why We Have Evening, is scheduled for publication by WordTech Communications in 2010. He was a finalist for the T. S. Eliot Poetry Prize and the Blue Lynx Poetry Prize and was a semifinalist for the Floating Bridge Chapbook Prize and the William Stafford Poetry Prize.
Contact
- Tri Cities West 207L
- 372-7253
- orr@tricity.wsu.edu
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