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Carol Loeb Shloss

Stanford University
English Department

Carol Loeb Shloss is currently Acting Professor of English at Stanford University. Educated at Swarthmore, Harvard and Brandeis, she has held previous positions at Wesleyan University, West Chester University and the University of Pennsylvania. She has received previous fellowships from the Wesleyan Center for the Humanities, The Bunting Institute of Harvard University, the Center for Documentary Photography at Duke, the Alice Paul Center at the University of Pennsylvania, the Center for the Cross Cultural Study of Women at Oxford University, the Harry Ransom Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin, and the Rockefeller Foundation in Bellagio, Italy. She has also received awards from the NEH and in 1995 was a Pew Fellow in the Arts in Creative Non-Fiction Writing.

 

Project Summary

This project is a biography of Mary de Rachewiltz, poet, translator and the only daughter of the American poet, Ezra Pound. It explores the intricacies of Pound’s family relationships and the effects of international geopolitics on the lives of those surrounding them, especially leading up to and following his indictment for treason in 1943.