Susan Stewart

Susan Stewart is Avalon Foundation University Professor of the Humanities and Director of the Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts at Princeton University.  A poet and critic, Professor Stewart recently served as a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets (2005-2011). Her many honors include receiving a MacArthur Fellowship and an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2005.

Her works of criticism (including The Poet's Freedom: A Notebook on Making, Poetry and the Fate of the Senses, and The Open Studio: Essays on Art and Aesthetics) have won the Christian Gauss Award for Literary Criticism and the Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism. Her poetry collection, Red Rover, recently appeared in Italian translation, and in 2003, her collection Columbarium won the National Book Critics Circle award. Stewart has also translated contemporary and classical works and authored a song cycle, "Songs for Adam," commissioned by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, which premiered in October 2009.