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Scholarly Interest Report
         
Edward A. Snow
Professor
Mary Gibbs Jones Chair for the Humanities and Professor of English
 
e-mail:edsnow@rice.edu
 
  • B.A., Rice University, 1964
  • M.A., University of California, Riverside, 1966
  • Ph.D., University of New York at Buffalo, 1969
 
Primary Department
   Department of English
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Research Areas
 Shakespeare, Seventeenth Century Poetry and Prose, Translation, Film and Film Theory, Art and Literature, Detective Fiction, Art History, Theory, and Criticism
 

Art History and Criticism

 
 
Teaching Areas
 Shakespeare, Renaissance Literature, Literary Theory, Film, Translation, Art & Literature, Detective Fiction
 
Selected Publications
 Books
 Edward Snow "Rilke's "Requiem for a Friend": A Translation, forthcoming 2011.." In Revision
 
 Edward Snow "The Poetry of Rilke, North Point Press, 2009." 
 
 Edward Snow and Michael Winkler "Rainer Maria Rilke And Lou Andreas-Salome: The Complete Correspondence, W.W. Norton & Co., 2006." 
 
 Edward Snow, translator and editor "Rainer Maria Rilke, Sonnets to Orpheus, North Point Press, 2004." 
 
 Edward Snow, translator and editor "Rainer Maria Rilke, New Poems: A Revised Selection, North Point Press, 2001." 
 
 Edward Snow, translator and editor "Rainer Maria Rilke, The Duino Elegies, North Point Press, 2000." 
 
 Edward Snow "Inside Bruegel: The Play of Images in "Children's Games," North Point Press, 1997." 
 
 Edward Snow and Michael Winkler, translators "Rainer Maria Rilke, Diaries of a Young Poet, W.W. Nortn & Co., 1997." 
 
 Edward Snow, translator and editor "Rainer Maria Rilke, Uncollected Poems, North Point Press, 1996.." 
 
 Edward Snow "A Study of Vermeer: Revised and Enlarged Edition, University of California Press, 1994." 
 
 Edward Snow, translator and editor "Rainer Maria Rilke, The Book of Images: Revised Edition, North Point Press, 1994." 
 
 Edward Snow, translator and editor "Rainer Maria Rilke, The Book of Images, North Point Press, 1991." 
 
 Edward Snow, translator and editor "Rainer Maria Rilke, New Poems: The Other Part, North Point Press, 1987." 
 
 Edward Snow, translator and editor "Rainer Maria Rilke, New Poems, North Point Press, 1984." 
 
 Edward Snow "A Study of Vermeer, University of California Press, 1979." 
 
Presentations
 Invited Talks
 ""The Poetry of Rilke: A Reading," Menil Museum,." (Decemer 8, 2009)
 
 "Vermeer: A Conversation." Clark Art Institute, Williamstown MA. (November 2003)
 
 Keynote Speaker
 ""Fictions of Art History: A Summation," 2010 Clark Institute Symposium.." (October 2010)
 
 Other
 "Rilke: A Reading and a Lecture." Cooper Union, New York, NY. (March 2001)
 
 "Rilke Now: A Reading and Discussion." Chicago Humanities Festival, Chicago. (November 2000) With Galway Kinnell
 
 "Rilke: A Celebration." 92nd Street Y Untermeyer Poetry Series, New York, NY. (March 2000) With William Gass, Galway Kinnell, Rika Lesser
 
Editorial Positions
 Editorial Advisor, Genders.

Supervised Theses & Dissertations
 Jayme Yeo, Ph.D. Religion and Politics in 17th Century English Poetry. (2011) (Thesis or Dissertation Director)

Awards, Prizes, & Fellowships
 Finalist, PEN USA Translation Award, for "The Poetry of Rilke", PEN USA (2010)

 PEN USA Translation Award (with Michael Winkler for Rilke and Andreas-Salome, "Complete Correspondence"),

 Finalist, Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize (with Michael Winkler for Rilke and Andreas-Salome, "Complete Correspondence"),

 Academy of American Poets Harold Morton Landon Translation Award, for Rilke's "Duino Elegies", Academy of American Poets (2001)

 Texas Institute of Letters Translation Award, for Rilke's "Duino Elegies",

 Finalist, Helen and Kurt Wolff Goethe Institute Translation Award (with Michael Winkler for Rilke's "Diaries of a Young Poet"),

 Finalist, PEN West Translation Prize (with Michael Winkler for Rilke's "Diaries of a Young Poet"),

 PEN Translation Award (for Rilke, "Uncollected Poems"),

 American Academy of Poets Harold Morton Landon Translation Award (for Rilke, "New Poems"),

 Honorable Mention, PEN Translation Award (for Rilke, "New Poems"),

 Senior Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, The National Gallery (Washington),

 NEH Research Fellowship,

Juries
 Jury
 Judge, PEN USA Translation Award. (Spring 2011)
Positions Held
 Translation Advisory Board, Texas Institute of Arts and Letters. (January 2011 - present)

 Judge, Translation Award, PEN USA. (3/1/2011 - 9/1/2011)