Department of English - The University of Montana

Adjunct Assistant Professor

Office: DHC 106
Phone: 243.6708
E-mail: cnd3199@blackfoot.net

M.A., Columbia University (1953)

Profile:

Among his eighteen books of poetry, Pack’s most recent collections are: Elk in Winter (2003), Rounding it Out (1999), Minding the Sun (1996), and Fathering the Map: New and Selected Later Poems (1993), all published by the University of Chicago Press. His most recent book of criticism, Belief and Uncertainty in the Poetry of Robert Frost was just published (1993) by the New England University Press, and his earlier collections of essays, The Long View: Essays on the Discipline of Hope and Poetic Craft and Affirming Limits were published by the University of Massachusetts Press. He is currently completing a book about Shakespeare's major plays: Choice and Necessity.

Pack received his B.A. degree from Dartmouth College and an M.A. from Columbia University. He taught at Barnard College from

1957-1963 and at Middlebury College from l964 to 1998. He served as the Director of the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference from l973 to 1994. He was College Professor of Literature and Creative Writing at Middlebury College, a position which allowed him to teach wherever in the curriculum his interests took him. He taught literature and creative writing classes in the English Department and the Literary Studies Progam and also in the Program in Environmental studies, where his interests in psychoanalysis, Big Bang physics, and Darwinian evolution came into play. For years Pack has served the Woodrow Wilson Foundation by teaching in residence for a period of one to four weeks at various small liberal arts colleges throughout the country, most recently at Rocky Mountain College in Billings, Montana in 2000, where he was awarded an Honorary degree in the spring of 2001. Pack has had a Fulbright Fellowship to Italy where he translated the Mozart librettos, and has been given awards for his poetry by the National Council of the Arts, The Borestone Mountain award, and the American Scholar Mary Elinor Smith Poetry Prize. His poems and essays have appeared in numerous magazines such as the American Scholar, The New Criterion, The Kenyon Review, The Georgia Review, The Yale Review, The New Yorker, Orion, and many more. In 1994 he was awarded the Dartmouth College medal for lifetime accomplishment and leadership. Pack now teaches courses in Shakespeare, Romantic Poetry, Modern Poetry, Creative Writing, and Ways of Knowing at the University of Montana in Missoula in the English Department and the Honors College. He and his wife live in a mountain home in Condon, designed by his son.