Nationality American Period 1991— | Name Douglas Trevor Role Author | |
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Occupation Novelist, Short-story writer Notable works Girls I Know (2013)The Thin Tear in the Fabric of Space (2005)The Poetics of Melancholy in Early Modern England (2004)Historicism, Psychoanalysis, and Early Modern Culture (2000) Books Girls I Know, The thin tear in the fabric of s, The poetics of melancho | ||
Douglas Trevor - Writing the Critical Scene
Douglas Trevor (born 1969) is an American author and academic. He received the Iowa Short Fiction Award and was a finalist for the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award for his first book, a collection of stories entitled The Thin Tear in the Fabric of Space (2005). His other books include The Poetics of Melancholy in Early Modern England (2004) and the novel Girls I Know (2013). He teaches in the English Department and Creative Writing Program at the University of Michigan.
Contents
- Douglas Trevor Writing the Critical Scene
- Douglas Trevor Reading from The Program of Profound Thought
- Biography
- Published work
- Awards and honors
- References
Douglas Trevor - Reading from "The Program of Profound Thought"
Biography
Trevor was born in Pasadena, California. He moved to Denver, Colorado at the age of three.
He attended high school at the Kent Denver School and from there went to Princeton University, where he studied Comparative Literature and Creative Writing. In the Princeton Creative Writing Program, Trevor worked with Joyce Carol Oates, Russell Banks, and Toni Morrison. After graduating Phi Beta Kappa, Magna Cum Laude in 1992, Trevor went to France on a Rotary Fellowship to study the essayist Michel de Montaigne at the Université de Tours. After completing a year of study, he matriculated to Harvard University, where he began work on an English PhD. In 1999 he completed his PhD and took an assistant professorship in the English Department at the University of Iowa. In 2001 he was married. He received tenure in 2005. While at Iowa, Trevor also served for a time as the Fiction Editor of The Iowa Review (2000-2004). In 2007 he took a tenured position at the University of Michigan. The father of two, he was divorced in 2010.
Published work
Trevor's first published work in a national distributed journal was in The Ontario Review when he was twenty-four. For the next decade, he published short stories in journals and magazines such as Glimmer Train, The Paris Review, Epoch (American magazine), The New England Review, and The Black Warrior Review.
In 2004, Trevor's first book appeared. The Poetics of Melancholy in Early Modern England was a study of how writers such as John Donne, Edmund Spenser, and John Milton utilized the term melancholic to enhance their reputations as learned writers. In 2005, Trevor published his first collection of stories, The Thin Tear in the Fabric of Space. Each of these nine stories circles around a different experience of grief following the death of a loved one. The collection is dedicated to the writer's sister, Jolee, who died unexpectedly in 1998.
As a scholar of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English literature, Trevor has published widely on writers ranging from Thomas More to Milton, and was the co-editor (with Carla Mazzio) of Historicism, Psychoanalysis, and Early Modern Culture (2000).