Decker Professor in the Humanities

The Writing Seminars
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, MD  21218

Telephone: (410) 516-8929
E-mail: jirwin@jhu.edu

Curriculum vitae

John Irwin teaches graduate and undergraduate poetry workshops and courses in literature. He is the author of four works of literary criticism, most recently The Mystery to a Solution: Poe, Borges, and the Analytical Detective Story (JHU Press), which was a recipient of the Christian Gauss Prize from Phi Beta Kappa for best scholarly book of the year and the Aldo Scaglione Prize from the Modern Language Association. Writing as John Bricuth, Irwin is the author of three volumes of poetry, The Heisenberg Variations (JHU Press), Just Let Me Say This About That (Overlook Press), and As Long As It’s Big (JHU). He has been a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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