Walt Hunter
Chair, Professor
Contact
weh38@case.edu
216-368-3342
Guilford 106
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Specialty: English Program Faculty
About
Walt Hunter is a professor of 20th- and 21st- century literature and chair of the department of English at Case Western Reserve University. Hunter is fiction and poetry editor for The Atlantic.
Hunter’s teaching and research explore the ways that poets and prose writers bring fresh perspectives to political and social issues by remaking their style and forms of expression. Previous books have been about housing and poetry, and about globalization and poetry. He is currently editing an anthology of poetry published in The Atlantic since 1857, beginning with “Paul Revere’s Ride.”
Hunter is the author of two previous books of literary criticism: Forms of a World: Contemporary Poetry and the Making of Globalization (Fordham UP, 2019) and The American House Poem, 1945-2021 (Oxford UP, 2023). His essays have appeared in Modern Philology and New Literary History, among other publications, and he writes frequently about novels and poems for public audiences. Hunter is the recipient of awards and fellowships from the Robert B. Silvers Foundation, the South Carolina Arts Commission, the Teagle Foundation/National Endowment for the Humanities, and the James Merrill House, where he was writer-in-residence in September 2020.
Hunter is also the author of a collection of poetry, Some Flowers (MadHat, 2022). Poems have appeared in The Atlantic, the Boston Review, the Hopkins Review, Literary Imagination, and the New York Review of Books. His interest in modern literature extends to French, and he is the translator of Frédéric Neyrat’s Atopias: Manifesto for a Radical Existentialism (with Lindsay Turner; Fordham UP, 2017).
Hunter frequently teaches classes in American literature, global anglophone poetry, lyric poetry, the contemporary novel, and modern poetry from T.S. Eliot to Tracy K. Smith.