Jeffrey Gray, Ph.D.

Professor Emeritus
Department of English

Jeffrey Gray is a scholar of U.S. poetry, postcolonial literature, and literary theory. He is the author of Mastery’s End: Travel and Postwar American Poetry (University of Georgia Press) and of many articles on American and Latin American literature. His poetry has appeared in the American Poetry Review, Yale Review, the Atlantic, Triquarterly, Western Humanities Review, and other periodicals.He is also the English translator of Rodrigo Rey Rosa’s novels The African Shore (Yale University Press) and Chaos: A Fable (Amazon Crossing), and editor or co-editor of several anthologies, including the five-volume Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Poets and Poetry, The News from Poems (University of Michigan Press), The New American Poetry of Engagement: A 21st Century Anthology (McFarland Press), and the recent Companion to American Poetry (Wiley-Blackwell Press). He has been the recipient of grants from the Fulbright Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Geraldine Dodge foundation. He lives in Ocean Grove, New Jersey, and Alghero, Sardinia.