Hartwick college

Professor Bensen administers the Writing Competency program and the Creative Writing program, and teaches courses in both creative writing and composition. British poetry of the 17th century, as well as American Indian and Caribbean literatures are among his research and teaching interests.

He writes poetry and literary criticism, both of which have been extensively published. A large excerpt of his  book-length poem, Orenoque, concerns the myths of European and Indigenous people in the Orinoco region of Venezuela in the 1500s (then called Guiana). Along with artwork by colleague Phil Young, the work was published in The Journal of Commonwealth Literature (Icfai Univrsity, India) in 2010.  His most recent articles are on the poetry of Osage poet Carter Revard (2008) and the West Indian poet Derek Walcott (2009).  

His poems from the collection Two Dancers (2004) were on exhibit at the National Museum of Dance in Saratoga Springs, New York, from April 2007 through October 2008.  This was the fifth gallery exhibit of the poems with photographs made by Charles Bremer of dancers Elisabeth Baldanza and Annalee Bensen.  

E-mail: bensenr@hartwick.edu
Office: Clark 226
Phone: 607-431-4902

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