Professor
Robert von Hallberg
Claremont McKenna College
Literary scholar; Educator
Area
Humanities and Arts
Specialty
Literature and Language Studies
Elected
2009
Helen A. Regenstein Professor, Department of English and Comparative Literature. Leading scholar critic of Modernist poetry and poetics. As co-founder of the journal Modernism/Modernity, set a whole new tone to the discipline. Books on Charles Olson, postmodern American poetry, German modernism, and most recently a wide-ranging study of lyric, are seminal. His Chicago seminar is legendary for its probing studies of varied poets.
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