karen elizabeth bishop

Born in Birmingham Moved to northern Scotland, San Diego, Santa Barbara, Austin, Sevilla, Berkeley, back to Santa Barbara, the Alpes, Paris, Boston And now New Jersey

Wanted to become a flautist, lounge singer, baker, geologist, or to teach literature PhD in Comparative Literature

Teach at Rutgers Used to teach at Harvard New Faculty Fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies

Interested in poetry and narrative, human rights, torture, translation, cartography, exile, genre studies, postcolonial studies, architectural theory Work in Spanish, English, and French Currently preoccupied with disappearance, form, framing, and suspension