Background
Alan Golding was born on October 4, 1952 in London, United Kingdom. Son of Charles and Dorothy Margaret (Marshall) Golding.
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Alan Golding was born on October 4, 1952 in London, United Kingdom. Son of Charles and Dorothy Margaret (Marshall) Golding.
Golding earned his BA from the University of Exeter in 1974 and his MA (with honors) in 1975 and PhD (with honors) in 1980 from the University of Chicago.
Alan was a faculty member at Kishwaukee College, Malta, IL, in 1976 and at Roosevelt University, Chicago, IL, from 1977 until 1979. He worked as a visiting lecturer in composition at the University of California, Los Angeles, from 1980 until 1984. Between 1984 and 1987 he was an assistant professor at the University of Mississippi, Oxford. In 1987 Golding joined the University of Louisville, Louisville, KY as an assistant professor until 1990. He became then an associate professor between 1990 and 1996. Since 1996 he has been a professor of American literature. He teaches American literature and poetry and poetics of the long twentieth century.
Golding is also the author of "From Outlaw to Classic: Canons in American Poetry" (1995). He co-edits the Iowa Series on Contemporary North American Poetry and Synapse.
He is also a member of the editorial boards of Contemporary Literature and Twentieth-Century Literature, and of the advisory board of the University of Alabama Press series on Modern and Contemporary Poetics.
Golding married Lisa Beth Shapiro on 19 May, 1984. The couple has 2 children: Chase, Jordan.
