Dr Michael Kindellan

School of English

Lecturer in Modern Literature

MA LIT Assessment Officer

School of English Library Liaison

Taught Postgraduate Coordinator

Michael Kindellan
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m.r.kindellan@sheffield.ac.uk
+44 114 222 0223
Jessop West

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Dr Michael Kindellan
School of English
Jessop West
1 Upper Hanover Street
Sheffield
S3 7RA
Profile

I am a lecturer in modern English literatures, specialising in poetry and poetics in American, British and Canadian contexts. Particular interests include: experimentalism and the avant-garde; material and bibliographic histories, rare books and small presses; archives and correspondence. I edit the broadside press Constitutional Information.

Qualifications

PhD (University of Sussex)
MA (University of Cambridge)
BA (McGill University)

Research interests

General interests: 

Poetry and poetics (19th century, Modernist, New American Poetry, contemporary)
Materiality, bibliography, rare books, archives, editing, text and textuality 
Theory and practice of correspondence
Pedagogy as art and science of knowledge production

Current projects: 

Editor of and contributor to Utter Vulnerability: Essays on the Poetry of John Wieners (2025)
Coeditor of Routledge Companion to Ezra Pound (2027)
Coeditor of Complete(d) Correspondence of Charles Olson and Robert Creeley

PGR Supervision: 
I've supervised to successful completion PhD projects on postwar American poetry and dance, and a creative-critical hybrid focused on life writing as experimental form. 

Select bibliography: 

Kindellan, Michael and Alex Rose Cocker, eds. Utter Vulnerability: Essays on the Poetry of John Wieners. Montpellier: PULM, 2025. [Includes my essay "Graphic Wieners"]

Kindellan, Michael. 鈥淭he Modernist Long Poem鈥. In Cambridge History of American Modernism, edited by Mark Whalan, 266-84. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. 

Kindellan, Michael (with Alison Honey Woods and Emily Critchley). Alphabet Poems: For Kids! London: Prototype, 2021. 

Kindellan, Michael (with Joshua Kotin). 鈥淭he Cantos and Pedagogy鈥. Modernist Cultures 12, no. 3 (Autumn 2017): 345鈥63; 388鈥90. *Includes responses from Charles Altieri, Alan Golding, Marjorie Perloff, Michael Coyle and Steven Yao.*

Kindellan, Michael. The Late Cantos of Ezra Pound: Composition, Revision, Publication. London and New York: Bloomsbury, 2017.

Kindellan, Michael. 鈥淭he Cantos Texts and Theories of Literature鈥. In The New Ezra Pound Studies, edited by Mark Byron, 88鈥103. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019.

Kindellan, Michael. 鈥淧rojective Verse and Pedagogy鈥. In Staying Open: Charles Olson鈥檚 Sources and Influences, edited by Joshua Hoeynck, 1-30. Vernon, DE: Vernon Press, 2018.
 

Publications

Books

  • Kindellan MR (2017) The Late Cantos of Ezra Pound: Composition, Revision, Publication. 2017: Bloomsbury. RIS download Bibtex download

Journal articles

  • Kindellan MR (2018) "Tinkle, Tinkle, Two Tongues": Sound, Sign, Canto XCIX. Glossator : Practice and Theory of the Commentary, 10, 83-120. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Kindellan MR & Kotin J (2017) . Modernist Cultures, 12(3), 388-390. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Kindellan MR & Kotin J (2017) The Cantos and Pedagogy. Modernist Cultures, 12(3), 345-63. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Kindellan M (2016) I have always loathed reading: Ezra pound's late cantos. Paideuma, 43, 199-247. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Kindellan M (2013) . Textual Practice, 27(5), 927-930. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Mak C, Ayres J, Finch L, Pedlingham G, Soderberg L & Kindellan M (2011) . Textual Practice, 25(5), 961-987. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Kindellan M (2011) Romanticism, Sincerity and Authenticity. TEXTUAL PRACTICE, 25(5), 982-987. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Kotin J & Kindellan M (2009) Stephen Rodefer's Position. CHICAGO REVIEW, 54(3), 6-7. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Kindellan M, Kotin J & Adams VJ (2009) An Interview with Stephen Rodefer. CHICAGO REVIEW, 54(3), 8-28. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Kindellan M (2006) The 'battered vessel'. CHICAGO REVIEW, 51(4), 206-209. RIS download Bibtex download

Chapters

  • Kindellan M (2019) , The New Ezra Pound Studies (pp. 88-103). Cambridge University Press RIS download Bibtex download
  • Kindellan MR (2018) Projective Verse and Pedagogy In Hoeynck J (Ed.), Staying Open: Charles Olson鈥檚 Sources and Influences (pp. 1-30). Wilmington: Vernon Press. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Kindellan MR (2016) Ownership and Interpretation: On Ezra Pound鈥檚 Deluxe First Editions In Coste B, Delyfer C & Reynier C (Ed.), Reconnecting Aestheticism and Modernism: Continuities, Revisions, Speculations New York: Routledge. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Kindellan MR (2016) Ezra Pound, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska and philology In Reynier C & Ganteau J (Ed.), Ethics of Alterity, Confrontation and Responsibility in 19th- to 21st-Century British Arts (pp. 169-184). Montpellier: PULM. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Kindellan M (2016) , Contemporary Olson Manchester University Press RIS download Bibtex download

Book reviews

  • Michael Kindellan (2015) . The Modern Language Review, 110(3), 853-853. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Michael Kindellan (2014) . The Modern Language Review, 109(2), 492-492. RIS download Bibtex download
Research group
I welcome applications from potential research students who wish to pursue any number of subjects within the broad field of 20th century Anglo-American poetry or poetics.
 
 
Teaching interests

Undergraduate: 

The Art and Politics of Hip Hop
America and the Avant-Garde
Literature and Critical Thought
Romanticism to Modernism 
Modern and Contemporary Lit
Undergraduate Dissertation 

Graduate: 

Postmodern Poetry and Poetics
Mid-Century Modernism
Editing the Long 19th Century
Graduate Dissertation 

Teaching activities
Currently I contribute teaching to the following modules:
 
Undergraduate:
  • LIT3000 America and the Avant-Garde
  • LIT302 Modern Literature
  • LIT386 Dissertation
  • LIT113 Foundations
 
Postgraduate:
  • LIT647 Small Press Publishing since 1960
  • LIT650 Mid Century Modernism
  • LIT3651 Topics in American Postmodernism
  • MA Dissertation
  • EGH629 Pastoral Literature
  • EGH623 MA Work Placement
Professional activities and memberships

I am the editor of the independent broadside press Constitutional Information. In collaboration with Face Press, CI has initiated an exciting new project called "Manuscripts from Archives". John Wieners' hitherto unknown text "An Attempt at Alphabet" was published in late May 2025. 

Other recent titles include: 

Wieners, John. An attempt at Alphabet. Edited by Ian Heames, with Michael Kindellan. London & Sheffield: Constitutional Information, 2025. 

Piette, Adam and Alan Halsey. Nights as Dreaming / UV Docs. Edited / designed by Michael Kindellan. Sheffield: Constitutional Information, 2023. 

Alan Halsey. Herbal Mesostic Sonnet. Edited / designed by Michael Kindellan. Sheffield: Constitutional Information, 2023. [Broadside].

Further work
Selected poetry
  • with Emily Critchley and Alison Honey Woods, Alphabet poem: for kids! (London: Prototype, 2020). See it .
  • 鈥淔our poems鈥, Blackbox Manifold 23 (2019): n.p. . 
  • 鈥淧oem written while listening to Denise Riley read a poem鈥, The World Speaking Back ... to Denise Riley, ed. 脕gnes Leh贸czky and Zo毛 Skoulding (Boiler House Press, 2018). See this book .  
  • 鈥淭o whom we love鈥 and 鈥淵our dumb bell鈥, Wretched Strangers, ed. 脕gnes Leh贸czky and JT Welch (Norwich: Boiler House Press, 2017). See it .
  • Hip 90135 (Sheffield: Constitutional Information, 2016). See it . 
  • Financial Times (Montpellier: No press, 2011).  Crater 1 (London: Crater Press, 2010). See about it . 
  • Not love (London: Barque, 2009). See it .   with Reitha Pattison, 
  • Word is Born (Cambridge: Arehouse, 2006). Read about it .   
  • 鈥淭he Battered Vessel鈥, Chicago Review 51/52 (April 2006): 206-209. 
  • Charles Baudelaire (London: Bad Press, 2005).
Invited talks and lectures
  • "How not to learn Chinese: Ezra Pound, The Confucian Odes, and maverick philology". University of Oslo. 14 November 2018
  • "Pound's (im)material Poetics". Poetry and Poetics Research Seminar. University of Sydney. 9 August 2018
  • "The Cantos and Pedagogy". English Departmental Seminar Series. University of Sydney. 8 August 2018
  • "In defense of having nothing to say". Denise Riley Symposium. 精东影业. 27 April 2018
  • "Poetic education: On Charles Olson". Romantic and Contemporary Lecture Series. 精东影业. 15 February 2018.
  • "'Poems and learning': Charles Olson at Black Mountain College". English Research Seminar. Roehampton University. 24 January 2018
Conference presentations
  • 鈥淭he Openness of American Modernisms鈥. British Association of American Studies. University of Sussex. 25-27 April 2019.
  • 鈥淧rojective Verse Illustrated鈥. American Literature Association. Boston. 23-26 May 2019.
  • 鈥滆 姣 瑗 of Reading: Pound鈥檚 鈥榮cholarly鈥 Classic Anthology鈥. Ezra Pound International Conference. University of Salamanca. 25-29 June 2019.
  • "Pound's Doggerel". Historicizing Modernism/Bloomsbury. York University. 17-19 May 2018
  • "John Wieners' Lyric Intensions". European and British Association of American Studies. King's College, University of London. 4-7 April 2018
  • "Poems, & learning: Olson as pedagogue". English Research Seminar. The University of Roehampton. 24 January 2018
  • "A poetics of pedagogy: Charles Olson at Black Mountain College". Re-Viewing Black Mountain College. The University of North Carolina. 29 September-1 October 2017
  • "Redeeming Ezra Pound". Modernist Studies Association Conference. Beurs van Berlage, Amsterdam. 10-13 August 2017
  • "Charles Olson's Pedagogical Poetics". Avant-Garde Pedagogies. University of Westminster. 8-9 July 2016
  • "Learn of the Green World: Pedagogy in The Cantos", with Joshua Kotin (Princeton); response by Professor Alan Golding (Kentucky). Ezra Pound International Conference. Brunnenburg, Italy. 7-11 July 2015
  • "Unreading The Cantos: philology, community, error". Modernist Communities. Inaugural International Conference of the Soci茅t茅 d'Etudes Modernistes. Universit茅 Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris III. 24-26 April 2014
  • "On first editions: Ezra Pound's economic objects". Aesthetics, Ethics and Economics: Re-Valuing Aestheticism and Modernism through (Dis)credited Figures. Universit茅 Paul-Val茅ry, Montpellier III. 2-4 October 2013
  • "'Historic Blackout': Ezra Pound's anti-philological poetics". Modernist Studies Association. The University of Sussex. 29 August-1 September 2013
  • "'Not shallow in verbal usage': Ezra Pound v. philology". Ezra Pound International Conference. University College, Dublin. 10-13 July 2013
  • "Ezra Pound and textual criticism". 脡tant donn茅s: Questioning the material and marginal givens of modernist scholarship. University College Cork. 12-13 April 2013
  • "'They follow the lines of force': Ezra Pound and Gaudier-Brzeska". Ethics and Alterity in 19th-21st Century British Art. Universit茅 Paul-Val茅ry, Montpellier III. 4-5 April 2013
  • "Prosody as polemic; or, Pound contra Tennyson". Ezra Pound International Conference: Pound and London. The University of London. 5-9 July 2011
  • "'That Dolt E. P.' J. H. Prynne, Ezra Pound and emphatic language". Legacies of Modernism: The State of British Poetry Today. 脡tudes-Anglophones Institut Charles-V, Universit茅 de Paris. 9-11 June 2011
  • "William Wordsworth and J. H. Prynne: Responsibility in verse". Ethics and Alterity in 19th-20th Century British Literature. Universit茅 Paul-Val茅ry, Montpellier III. 26-28 May 2011
  • "Wordsworth and Prynne: a preliminary report". EMMA research group. Universit茅 Paul-Val茅ry, Montpellier III. 17 February 2011
  • "Pr茅sentation de travaux". EMMA research group. Universit茅 Paul-Val茅ry, Montpellier III. 23 November 2010
  • "Olson's literalism". Charles Olson 2010. University of Kent. 15-17 November 2010
  • "Literalism in Whitman, Pound and Olson". 41st Annual NeMLA Convention. McGill University. 7-11 April 2010
  • "Social Affection in The Cantos of Ezra Pound". Ezra Pound International Conference: Pound, Rome and Love. Centro Studi Americiani, Rome. 30 June-4 July 2009
  • "Oppen under erasure: drafts and daybooks". George Oppen Conference. University of Edinburgh. 15-16 November, 2008
  • "Canto XXXVI-Donna mi pregha". Cantos Reading Group. University of London, Senate House. 5 November 2008
  • "The Pisan Cantos, the Bollingen Prize, the New Criticism". American Realignments: 1948. University of Sussex. 5 September 2008
  • "'The ubicity, ascertaining': some notes on The Cantos". Long Poems ::: Major Forms. University of Sussex. 16-17 May 2008
  • "Epic Turning Lyric: Reference as Refrain after The Pisan Cantos". Cross Currents. University of Sussex. 5 July 2007
  • "Advertising in Maximus". Poetry & Public Language. University of Plymouth. 30 March-1 April 2007