Dr. Logan Esdale
Biography
Logan Esdale is originally from the Thompson-Shuswap area in British Columbia, Canada. In Canada, he studied at the University of British Columbia, for an BA in English, and then at Western University, for an MA in English. For a PhD in English he went across the border, to the University at Buffalo, in western New York, for its Poetics Program. In 2003 he moved from Buffalo to southern California and has taught at Chapman since then. He offers courses on modern poetry, American literature, and creative writing. As a scholar, he has published articles on American poets such as Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, and Marianne Moore, but his central focus has been the writing of Gertrude Stein (1874–1946). He has edited or coedited three Stein-related books: in 2012, a workshop edition of Ida A Novel, which Stein published in 1941; Approaches to Teaching the Works of Gertrude Stein (2018); and A Description of Acquaintance: The Letters of Laura Riding and Gertrude Stein, 1927–1930 (2023). He is the reviews editor for the journal Textual Cultures.
Recent Creative, Scholarly Work and Publications
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Esdale, Logan, and Deborah M. Mix, eds. Approaches to Teaching the Works of Gertrude Stein. Modern Language Association of America, 2018.
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“Unoriginal Genius: Student Poems Made from Tender Buttons.” Modernism / modernity, vol. 1, no. 1, [Online section], 2016.
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“Adorning Myself to Bestow Myself: Reading Leaves of Grass in 1860.” Walt Whitman Among the Bohemians, edited by Joanna Levin and Edward Whitley, U of Iowa P, 2014, pp. 155-71.
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Stein, Gertrude. Ida A Novel. 1941. Edited by Logan Esdale, Yale UP, 2012.
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“Gertrude Stein’s Stanzas In Meditation, edited by Susannah Hollister and Emily Setina.” Textual Cultures, vol. 7, no. 1, Spring 2012, pp. 198-205.
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“Gertrude Stein’s Twin.” Textual Practice, vol. 25, no. 6, December 2011, pp. 989-1014.
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“Reading Emily Dickinson’s Letters: Critical Essays, edited by Jane Donahue Eberwein and Cindy MacKenzie.” The Emily Dickinson Journal, vol. 19, no. 2, Fall 2010, pp. 113-16.
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“The Saintsbury Years of Marianne Moore.” Textual Cultures, vol. 5, no. 1, Spring 2010, pp. 46-75.
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“Editing Paradise (Lost): Milton, Bentley and Johnson.” Ronald Johnson: Life and Works, edited by Joel Bettridge and Eric Selinger, National Poetry Foundation, 2008, pp. 249-80.
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“Gertrude Stein, Laura Riding and The Space of Letters.” Journal of Modern Literature, vol. 29, no. 4, Summer 2006, pp. 99-123.
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“Dickinson’s Epistolary ‘Naturalness.’” The Emily Dickinson Journal, vol. 14, no. 1, Spring 2005, pp. 1-23. [Reprinted: Emily Dickinson, edited by Harold Bloom, Chelsea House, 2008, pp. 147-68.]