Ben Glaser

Ben Glaser is associate professor of English at Yale University. His work appears in NLH, modernism/modernity, ELH, PMLA, Victorian Poetry, and other venues. He is the author of Modernism’s Metronome: Meter and Twentieth-Century Poetics (Johns Hopkins UP, 2020), and co-editor with Jonathan Culler of Critical Rhythm (Fordham UP, 2019). He studies Anglophone poetics and prosody, with research and teaching interests in sound studies, disability studies, African American and Caribbean poetry, computational humanities, and critical approaches to AI.

Selected Publications

“The Tourettic Function: Verse History and the Neurodivergent Sublime” (forthcoming in Poetics Today)

“White Things: Form, Formalization, and the Use of Prosody” (New Literary History 54.4, 2023)

“The Black Quatrain, Pseudomorphosis, and Racial Form” in Companion to American Poetry (eds. Mary Balkun, Jeffrey Gray, and Paul Jaussen, Wiley Blackwell, 2022)

“The Poet Stung: Verse Drama, Modern Rhythm, and the Politics of W.H. Auden’s Metrical Stammer,” Modernism/modernity, 28:3 (Fall 2021)

- Modernism’s Metronome: Meter and Twentieth-Century Poetics. Hopkins Studies in Modernism. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020

- “Introduction” to Critical Rhythm, ed. Jonathan Culler and Ben Glaser. Fordham University Press, 2019

- “Autobiography as ars poetica: Satire, Music, and Rhythmic Exegesis in ‘Saint Peter Relates an Incident’” in New Perspectives on James Weldon Johnson’s “Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man” Ed. Noelle Morrissette, University of Georgia Press 2017

- “Modernist Scansion: Robert Frost’s Loose Iambics,” ELH 83.2, Summer 2016

- “Folk Iambics, Intertextuality, and Sterling Brown’s Outline for the Study of the Poetry of American Negroes,” PMLA 129 no. 3, May 2014

- “Milton in Time: Prosody, Reception, and the Twentieth-Century Abstraction of Form,” Thinking Verse III, January 2014

- “Polymetrical Dissonance: Tennyson, A. Mary F. Robinson, and Classical Meter,” Victorian Poetry 49 no. 2, Summer 2011

Reviews

- “Scanners, Darkly”: Review of Meter Matters: Verse Cultures of the Long Nineteenth Century, ed. Jason Hall, Ohio University Press 2011, Papers in Language and Literature

- Review of Meredith Martin, The Rise and Fall of Meter: Poetry and English National Culture 1860-1930, Princeton University Press 2012, Modern Language Quarterly, August 2013