Jeff Dolven

Jeff Dolven grew up in Massachusetts and studied at Yale and Oxford; he teaches poetry and poetics, especially of the English Renaissance, at Princeton University. He writes criticism and poems.

His book Scenes of Instruction considers poetry's entanglement with schooling at the end of the sixteenth century. His articles and essays--on Renaissance metrics, Edmund Spenser, Shakespeare's reading, Fairfield Porter, player pianos, and other subjects--have appeared in such publications as English Literary Renaissance, Representations, Modern Philology, Southwest Review, and Raritan. He also writes for Cabinet magazine, where he is an editor-at-large.

His poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The Times Literary Supplement, The Yale Review, and elsewhere. Speculative Music is his first collection.

He lives in Brooklyn.