DAVID RUBIN

A contributor to Poetry, Quarterly Review of Literature, Chicago Review, and other journals, as well as The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, The New Princeton Handbook of Poetic Terms, and The New Princeton Handbook of Multicultural Poetry, David Lee Rubin chairs the VQR Poetry Board. An Emeritus Professor of French at the University of Virginia, he teaches humanities and argumentation in seminars for first-years as well as Great Books to senior citizens through the Center for Continuing Studies. He also mentors and examines local applicants for the Fulbright and other traveling fellowships and serves on both the selection committee and the book prize jury of Phi Beta Kappa (Beta of Virginia). He is the founding editor of two scholarly journals, Continuum and EMF, as well as editor-in-chief and publisher of Rookwood Press, which specializes in titles for research libraries. The author of three books and many articles on the 17th-century lyric, he has edited or co-edited more than a score of other volumes and special issues of journals. He has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Festschrift, The Shape of Change: Studies in Honor of David Lee Rubin (New York and Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2002).