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BA, MA, Stanford University; MA, PhD, University of California at Santa Cruz

Contemporary French novel, modern poetry and religious tradition, Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Claudel, Bonnefoy, Des Forets

Modern French poetry, contemporary French novel, Dante, quest literature, comparative poetics

Books:

• The Poetics of Yves Bonnefoy (University of Chicago Press, 1984)
• The Act and the Place of Poetry, ed. (University of Chicago Press, 1989)
• In the Shadow's Light (translations from French, University of Chicago Press, 1991)
• Louis-Rene des Forets (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1993)
• Yves Bonnefoy: New and Selected Poems, ed. (University of Chicago Press; Carcanet Press/London, 1995)
• Shakespeare and the French Poet, ed. (University of Chicago Press, 2004)
• Une Intention de salut, essais sur la poésie française moderne (Amsterdam, Rodopi, 2012)
• ​Yves Bonnefoy:  Poems​, A bi-lingual anthology.  Co-edited, with Introduction and Translations by John Naughton (Carcanet Press, 2017)
• Paul Claudel: Partage de midi/Break of Noon, co-translated and with an Introductory essay by John Naughton (Shearsman Books and Menard Press, 2021)

Articles in:

• L'Esprit créateur
• Sud
• Temenos
• Studies in 20th-Century Literature
• Dalhousie French Studies
• Dictionary of Literary Biography
• Contemporary French Poetics
• Europe
• Rimbaud vivant
• L'Herne

Translations In:

• Critical Inquiry
• New Literary History
• Poetry Review
• Franco-British Studies
• Modern Poetry in Translation
• The Tel-Aviv Review
• Graham House Review
• Yale French Studies
• The Vintage Book of Contemporary World Poetry
• Poetry International
• 20th-Century French Poems
• The Yale Anthology of Twentieth-Century French Poetry
• PN Review
• Agni

Medal of the College de France, Paris, for "distinguished contributions to French Letters" 1991; Special Commendation for Translation, British Poetry Book Society, for Yves Bonnefoy: New and Selected Poems;  â€‹º¬Ðß²ÝÑо¿Ëù Presidential Scholar 2008; Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres 2019