EDUCATION GYORGYI VOROS English Department Virginia Tech Blacksburg, VA 24061-0112 office: (540) 231-5647 cell: 540-529-4735 email: gmvoros@vt.edu 1993 Ph.D., English. City University of New York Dissertation: "'A Cure of the Ground and of Ourselves': Ecology in the Poetry of Wallace Stevens." 1981 M.F.A., Creative Writing (Poetry). Brooklyn College, CUNY 1975 B.A., English. Douglass College, Rutgers University PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 2008- Senior Instructor, English Department, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061 2006-2010 Instructor of Earth Sustainability, Core Course Series Instructor, English Department Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 25061-0112 2002 - Instructor, English Department Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061-0112 2001-2002 Visiting Assistant Professor, English Department Hollins University, Roanoke, VA 24020-1607 1989-2001 Instructor, English Department Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061-0112 1988-1989 Visiting Lecturer, English Department Hollins College, Hollins, VA 24020 1985-1988 Assistant Editor, Parnassus: Poetry in Review AWARDS, GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS 2014 Pathways Faculty Scholar Appointment. Course release for contributing to and developing Pathways to General Education curriculum. $2000 in development funds. 2013 Provost Course Development Fund, Virginia Tech. Fund for participating in TLOS (Technology-enhanced Learning and Online Strategies) series of seminars in Fall 2013 and for developing an online version of English 3534: Literature and Ecology.
2011 IDDL (Institute for Distance and Distributed Learning) Grant, Virginia Tech. Course release for developing an online version of English 1604: Introduction to Poetry 2009 Wurlitzer Foundation, Taos. New Mexico. Three month writing residency awarded for summer 2010; completed in summer, 2011. 2008 Humanities Summer Stipend, Center for Teaching Excellence, Virginia Tech. For research toward a poem sequence on America s nuclear history. ($4000) 2007 International Poetry Prize Winner, The Atlanta Review. 2007 Santa Fe Arts Institute Writing Fellowship (One month residency.) 2006 Mills Writing Fellowship, Lannan Foundation, Santa Fe Art Institute. (Six week residency and $500 stipend.) 2004 Willis Barnstone Translation Prize. Finalist. The Earth s Complaint by Lorinc Szabo. 2004 Course Development Teaching Release Grant. CEUT (Center for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching), Virginia Tech. Grant to develop First Year Writing Courses to link to new Core Curriculum sequence on Aesthetics, Values and Society. 2004 Pushcart Prize nominee. Nominator: Edward Falco. 2003 CreativeWriting Teaching Release Grant. English Department, Virginia Tech. Grant to complete work on poetry manuscript. 2003 Hungarian Multicultural Center Artists and Writers Residency, Balatonfured, Hungary. (Three week residency.) 2003 Pushcart Prize nominee. Nominator: Edward Falco. 2002 Carnegie Hall Lyric Recovery Poetry Prize. Second Prize for Dutch Interior: The Artist and His Model. 2002 Pushcart Prize nominee. Nominator: Edward Falco. 2000 Millenium Grant. Virginia Tech. "Land Transformation and Ecology in the Visual Arts and Literature: 1945-Present." $6000. 1999 Humanities Summer Stipend. Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, Virginia Tech. "Land Transformation and Environmental Literature: 1945- Present." $3000. JoycSmoot Teaching Award. 1998 NEH Summer Institute: "Environment and World History: 1500-2000." University of California, Santa Cruz, CA.
1997 NEH Summer Institute, "The Environmental Imagination," Vassar College. Poughkeepsie, NY. 1997 Writing Fellow, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Amherst, Virginia. (Three week residency.) PUBLICATIONS Books Unwavering. Poems. Hudson, NY: The Groundwater Press. 2007. Notations of the Wild: Ecology in the Poetry of Wallace Stevens Iowa City: U Iowa P, 1997. Selected Poems Tagore at the Heart Hospital, Balatonfüred, Hungary. Parnassus: Poetry in Review: 34: 1&2 (2014): 313-314. Vow. Atlanta Review 14:1 (Fall/Winter 2007): 57. A Shadow of My Former Self. Southern Review 40.4 (Autumn 2004): 697-699. In Thrush Light. Southern Review 40.4 (Autumn 2004): 699-700. Reprinted on Verse Daily, Hunter Hamilton and Campbell Russo, eds. 24 November 2004. http://www.versedaily.org/inthrushlight.shtml. On Recalling Joel Peter Witkin s The Kiss on a Woodland Walk in Autumn. Agni 59 (2004): 82-84. Suite: In a Room Among Tumbling Walls. Hotel Amerika 1.2 (2003): 73-75. The Boathouse. The Sow s Ear Poetry Review XII, 2 (Summer 2002): 7. Dutch Interior 2: The Letter Reader. The Artist and His Model. In Rain of One Ocean: 2002 Lyric Recovery Festival Chapbook. Hudson/Headwaters Press, 2002. Dutch Interior 1: The Artist and His Model. In Rain of One Ocean: 2002 Lyric Recovery Festival Chapbook. Hudson/Headwaters Press, 2002. On the Road to Rose Blanche. In Rain of One Ocean: 2002 Lyric Recovery Festival Chapbook.
Hudson/Headwaters Press, 2002. Voros resume 5 "Blink (The Days)." ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 8, 1 (Winter 2001): 215-219. "Where Does Your River Begin." ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 8,1 (Winter 2001): 219-220. "Cartography." The MacGuffin XVIII, 1 (Spring 2001): 28-29. "Dendritic." The Hollins Critic XXXVII, 1(2000): 23 "Monochrome: Forsythia." California Quarterly 26, 3 (2000):36. "Anchorite." Shenandoah 49, 3 (1999): 55. Reprinted in Rain of One Ocean: 2002 Lyric Recovery Festival Chapbook. Hudson/Headwaters Press, 2002. "Arachne Unstrung." Parnassus: Poetry in Review 23, 1&2 (1998): 63-64. Reprinted in Rain of One Ocean: 2002 Lyric Recovery Festival Chapbook. Hudson/ Headwaters Press, 2002. "'The Owl." In The Burg and Other Poems. Ed. Anne Cheney. Lewiston, WV: Mellen Poetry Press, 1998. 97-99. "Epithalamion." Terra Nova 2,3 (1997):23 "Bird in Tree." Boulevard 11, 1 (Spring 1996): 201-202. Reprinted in Rain of One Ocean: 2002 Lyric Recovery Festival Chapbook. Hudson/ Headwaters Press, 2002. Selected Essays and Articles "Earth's Echo: Answering Nature in Ammons's Poetry." In Ecopoetry: A Critical Introduction. Scott Bryson, ed. Salt Lake City: U Utah P, 2002. 88-100. A Human Hunger (Terry Tempest Williams s Leap). In Spiritus: A Journal of Christian Spirituality 1:1 (2001): 103-108. "Wallace Stevens and A.R. Ammons as Men on the Dump." The Wallace Stevens Journal 24. 2 (Fall 2000): 161-175. "'Rootfree, Blossomfree'" [An essay on Jorie Graham's poetry.] Terra Nova: Nature and Culture. 2.1 (1997): 132-140. "Exquisite Environments: The Nature Poetry of Mary Oliver and Gary Snyder." Parnassus: Poetry in Review. 20.2 (1996): 231-150. "'Transparencies of Sound': From Tropes of Seeing to Tropes of Hearing in the Poetry of Wallace Stevens." West Virginia University Philological Papers 37.104 (1991).
Voros resume 5 "Two Versions of the Gorgeous Surface: Marianne Moore and Wallace Stevens." Marianne Moore: Woman and Poet. Patricia Willis, ed. Orono: University of Maine, 1990. 431-439. "'A Discourse Full of Gaps and Full of Lights': The Fragmented Landscapes of Gertrude Stein." Parnassus: Poetry in Review. 15.1 (1989): 45-70. Encyclopedia Entries "Nature: Nature in Literature and the Arts." In Encyclopedia of American Studies. George Kurian et al. Eds. New York: Grolier Publishing Co., 2001. "Agnes Gergely," "Rozsa Ignacz," "Anna Jokai," "Judit Kemenczky,""Anna Kiss," "Sarolta Raffai," "Margit Szecsi," "Erzsebet Toth." Encyclopedia of Continental Women Writers. 2 vols. Katharina Wilson, ed. New York: Garland Publishing, 1991. "Yeats's 'Easter 1916'." Literary Themes for Students: War and Peace. Thomson Gale, 2006. PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE) Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP)