Career
Born in Philadelphia and educated at Rutgers University, East. Doctorate. Blodgett emigrated to Canada in 1966 to work as a literature professor at the University of Alberta. On July 1, 2007 East.D. Blodgett was appointed the post of Poet Laureate for the City of Edmonton, Alberta. Configuration. Essays in the Canadian Literatures (1982) The Love Songs of the Carmina Burana (1987) with Roy Arthur Swanson Alice Munro (1988) Romance of Flamenca (1995) Five Participant Invention: A History of Literary History in Canada (2005).
