Madelon Sprengnether
Regents Professor
Ph.D. English, Yale University, 1971
336 Lind Hall
(612) 625-8314
spren001@umn.edu
Department Affiliations
English
Areas of Expertise
creative writing (poetry and nonfiction); feminist psychoanalytic criticism; Freud; women writers; Shakespeare
Selected Publications
The Angel of Duluth, prose poems. Buffalo: White Pine Press, 2006.
Crying at the Movies: A Film Memoir. St. Paul: Graywolf Press, 2002.
La Belle et La Bete, poetry chapbook. Sarasota Poetry Theater Press, 1999.
Shakespearean Tragedy and Gender. Ed. Shirley Garner and Madelon Sprengnether. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1996.
Revising the Word and the World: Essays in Feminist Literary Criticism. Ed. V. Clark, R. Joeres and M. Sprengnether. Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1993.
“Feminist Criticism and Psychoanalysis.” A History of Feminist Literary Criticism. Ed. Gill Plain and Susan Sellars. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
“Musing on Forgiveness: A Response to Roy Schafer.” Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association 53.2 (Spring 2005).
“Mouth to Mouth: Freud, Irma and the Dream of Psychoanalysis.” American Imago 60.3 (Fall 2003).
“Lot’s wife.” To Sing Along the Way: Minnesota Women Poets from Pre-Territorial Days to the Present. Ed. Joyce Sutphen, Thom Tammaro and Connie Wanek. Moorhead: New Rivers Press, 2006.
“Great River Road.” Fugue 26 (Winter 2003-04).
“Heart,” “Hands,” “Skin,” “Drowning in Air” (prose poems). Women’s Studies, 31.4 (July-August, 2002).
Graduate Courses
Personal Voice in Criticism
Writers as Critics
Contemporary Readings of Freud
Seminar in Literary Nonfiction (Memory and Memoir)
Studies in Feminist Criticism: Reading Through the Mother
Freud and Feminism
Shakespeare, Psychoanalysis, Feminism
Reading Across Genres
Undergraduate Courses
Varieties of Non-fiction Prose
Writing from Life
Movies and Memory
The Cinematics of Loss
Introduction to the Literature of the Renaissance
The Female Imagination in English and American Literature
Shakespeare in Question, Feminism, Psychoanalysis, New Historicism and Deconstruction
Specialized Subjects in Renaissance Literature: Madness in the Drama of Shakespeare and Ford