Ann Fisher-Wirth | |
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13th President of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment | |
In office 2006 | |
Preceded by | Allison Wallace |
Succeeded by | Karla Armbruster |
Personal details | |
Born | Ann Carolyn Welpton 25 January 1947 Washington, D.C., United States |
Citizenship | American |
Spouse | Peter Wirth |
Children | Jessica Fisher |
Education | M.A., PhD |
Alma mater | Claremont Graduate University |
Profession | Academician, poet |
Awards | Elsie M. Hood Award |
Website | https://annfisherwirth.com/ |
Ann Fisher-Wirth (born 25 January 1947) is an American poet and scholar, based at the University of Mississippi.[1] She has won several teaching awards, including Liberal Arts Outstanding Teacher of the Year (2006), Humanities Teacher of the Year (2007), and the Elsie M. Hood Award (2014).[2] Her poetry has received numerous awards, including several Pushcart nominations and a Pushcart Special Mention.[3]
Fisher-Wirth is the daughter of a career Army officer and an English teacher.[3] She was born in Washington, D. C., and lived as a child in Germany, Pennsylvania, and Japan before her father retired from the Army and her parents decided to move to Berkeley, California.[4]
She earned a B.A. degree, magna cum laude, in English from Pomona College in 1968;[1][5] an M.A. degree in English and American literature from Claremont Graduate School in 1972;[1] and a Ph.D. in English and American literature from Claremont Graduate Schoolin 1981.[1]
She has served as President of the international Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE), has had a senior Fulbright to the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, and has held the Fulbright Distinguished Chair at Uppsala University, Sweden.[3] She has been teaching at the University of Mississippi since 1988.[1]
Her scholarly work has concentrated primarily on William Carlos Williams and Willa Cather, but she has published on other writers including Cormac McCarthy, Louise Gluck, Robert Hass, and Anita Brookner.[1]
She is married to Peter Wirth.[4] Her daughter, Jessica Fisher, is also a poet.