Jeff Westover

Jeff Westover is Professor of English at Boise State University, where he teaches literature. He transcribed Marianne Moore's Reading Notebook of 1930-1943 (VII.02.02) for the Marianne Moore Digital Archive. He is the author of The Colonial Moment: Discoveries and Settlements in Modern American Poetry, which was selected as an outstanding academic title by Choice magazine in 2005. The book uses postcolonial theory to analyze the work of Marianne Moore, Robert Frost, William Carlos Williams,...See more

Jeff Westover is Professor of English at Boise State University, where he teaches literature. He transcribed Marianne Moore's Reading Notebook of 1930-1943 (VII.02.02) for the Marianne Moore Digital Archive. He is the author of The Colonial Moment: Discoveries and Settlements in Modern American Poetry, which was selected as an outstanding academic title by Choice magazine in 2005. The book uses postcolonial theory to analyze the work of Marianne Moore, Robert Frost, William Carlos Williams, Langston Hughes, and Hart Crane. More recently, he has published articles on Elizabeth Bishop, W. S. Merwin, and H.D. See less