KARIN ROFFMAN

Karin Roffman has published essays on John Ashbery and twentieth- and twenty-first century writers and artists in Raritan, Modern Fiction Studies, Artforum, Rain Taxi, Yale Review and others.  Her first book, From the Modernist Annex: American Women Writers in Museums and Libraries (2010) won the University of Alabama Press's American Literature Elizabeth Agee Manuscript Prize and subsequent publication. She is currently a Senior Lecturer in Humanities, English and American Studies at Yale University, where she is creating, "John Ashbery's Nest," a website and virtual tour of Ashbery's Hudson house in collaboration with Monica Ong Reed and the Yale Digital Humanities Lab. She has previously taught at West Point and Bard College.