Lisa M. Steinman is the Kenan Professor of English and Humanities at Reed College. A practicing poet, she has also written two highly regarded books on poetry: "Masters of Repetition: Poetry, Culture, and Work in Thomson, Wordsworth, Shelley, and Emerson" (1998) and "Made In America: Science, Technology, and American Modernist Poets" (1989). Her work has been recognized by the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and The Rockefeller Foundation.