Associate Professor and Chair, English Department
(MA, New York University, 1963)
tel.: (607) 777-5904
fax.: (607) 777-2408
e-mail: mgillan@binghamton.edu
Areas of Interest
Poetry
Multicultural Literature
Contemporary Women Poets
Working Class Literature
Current Projects
Writing Your Way Home (book on writing poetry)
Books and Recent Articles
Collected Poems, forthcoming 2008 (Toronto, Canada: Guernica Editions, 2008)
All That Lies Between Us (Toronto, Canada: Guernica Editions, 2007)
Talismans/ Talismani, Italian/ English, translated and with an introduction by Elisabetta Marino (Italy: Ibiskos di A. Uliveri, 2006)
Maria Mazziotti Gillan: Greatest Hits 1975-2002 (Johnstown, Ohio: Pudding House Publications, 2003)
Italian Women in Black Dresses (Toronto, Canada: Guernica Editions, 2003)
Italian American Writers on New Jersey: An Anthology of Poetry and Prose, editor (Rutgers University Press, 2003)
Things My Mother Told Me (Toronto, Canada: Guernica Editions, 1999)
Where I Come From: Selected and New Poems (Toronto, Canada: Guernica Editions, 1994, 1998)
Growing Up Ethnic in America: Contemporary Prose About Learning to be American, edited with Jennifer Gillan (New York: Penguin/Putnam, 1999)
Identity Lessons: Contemporary Writing About Learning to be American, edited with Jennifer Gillan (New York: Penguin/Putnam, 1994)
Unsettling America: An Anthology of Contemporary Multicultural Poetry, edited with Jennifer Gillan (New York: Penguin/Putnam, 1994)
The Weather of Old Seasons (New York: Cross-Cultural Communications, 1998)
Luce D'Inverno, bilingual edition, New York and Sicity: Cross-Cultural Communications, 1998
Takings Back My Name (San Francisco: Malafemmina Press, 1996 reprinted Lincoln Springs Press, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001)
Winter Light (Midland Park, NJ: Chantry Press, 1985)
Flowers From the Tree of Night (Midland Park, NJ: Chantry Press, 1980)
Recent Courses Taught
Graduate Poetry Workshop
Advanced Undergraduate Poetry Workshop
The Poetry of Memory and Place
Awards
Firman Houghton Poetry Award, Poetry Club of New England, December, 2001
Firman Houghton Poetry Award, Poetry Club of New England, December, 2001
Italian Women In Black Dresses, Honorable Mention, 2000
National Poetry Book Award from Salmon Run Press.
Things My Mother Told Me, Editor's Choice, Small Press Review, November- December, 1999
Growing Up Ethnic In America, Editor's Choice, Booklist, American Library Association, 1999.
Unsettling America: An Anthology of Contemporary Multicultural Poetry was designated as an "Outstanding Book for the College Bound and Lifelong Learners" by YALSA/American Library Association for 1999.
