Susan McCabe

Susan McCabe (born in Los Angeles) is an American poet and scholar. She is currently a Professor of English at the University of Southern California.

Life Susan McCabe received her Ph.D. in Literature at UCLA. She has taught at the University of Oregon and Arizona State University. She currently lives in Los Angeles and teaches in the PhD in Creative Writing & Literature program at the University of Southern California.

Poetry McCabe is the author of several books of poetry, most recently Descartes' Nightmare.

Scholarly work McCabe's first book, Elizabeth Bishop, Her Poetics of Loss (Penn State Press, 1994), was called by poet Donald Revell "the first book to present Bishop's poetry as a successful entirety, a coherent, humane, and progressive enterprise".

From 2005-2006 McCabe was the president of the Modernist Studies Association. Focusing particularly on Modernist poetry, McCabe's most recent book of criticism is Cinematic Modernism: Modern Poetry & Film (Cambridge University, 2005), out in paperback in 2009.

Her critical literary biography H.D. and Bryher: A modernist love story was published by Oxford University Press in 2021.

She has published many reviews, most recently on Brenda Hillman (Colorado Review), which followed a series of "eco-relations" reviews published by the Los Angeles Book Review in 2021 and 2022. She has written many articles on the topics of Hitchcock, Stein, and other 20th century figures or cultural movements.

Her first book of poems, Swirl (2003), was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award. She won the Agha Shahid Ali Award for Descartes' Nightmare in 2007, selected by Cole Swensen, and published by Utalh University Press in 2008.

Honors Maria Sutton Weeks Fellow at the Stanford Humanities Research Center, 2016-2017 Yale University Reinecke Library Fellowship, Fall 2017 Fellow (or Equivalent) of National Society in Discipline, American Academy in Berlin, Fall 2011 Mellon Award for Graduate Mentoring, 2009-2010 Advancing Scholarship in the Humanities & Social Sciences, 2008-2009 Agha Shahid Ali Award, First Prize for Poetry Book, Fall 2007 Fulbright Award, Research/Lecturer at Lund University, Sweden, Spring 2006 Yale University Beinecke Library Fellowship, 2005 Center for Feminist Research Travel Grant, Spring 2004 USC Zumberge Research and Innovation Fund Award, Fall 2000 Outstanding Mentor Award for Graduate Students, Arizona State University, 1998-1999