Stephen Fredman

Born in San Diego and educated in Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay Area, Stephen Fredman taught in the English Department at the University of Notre Dame, in South Bend, Indiana, from 1980-2017. His main field of expertise is modern American poetry and poetics, about which he has written five monographs and edited four volumes. He is currently at work on a memoir and a study of the impact of John Dewey’s philosophy on American poetry and performance art.