Portrait of Eleanor Wakefield

Eleanor Wakefield

Associate Teaching Professor
Director of Composition Program Writing Lab
English
ewakefie@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-0055
Office: 301B Tykeson Hall, 1286 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1286
Office Hours: Fall 2026, Winter 2027: on sabbatical
Research Interests: American literature, Modernism, poetry and poetics, sonnets, women's poetry, early 20th century poetry; composition studies, the politics of sports, research writing, student motivation and engagement; writing tutoring and student support.

Biography

Eleanor Wakefield has a PhD in poetry and poetics. Her dissertation, "Extending the Line: Early Twentieth-Century American Women's Sonnets," reads poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay, Sara Teasdale, and Helene Johnson. She has also published on Robert Frost. She has taught writing and literature at the University of Oregon since 2010, and elsewhere since 2008. She is the co-editor of the "Politics of Sports" casebook/textbook.

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