Rate My Professor Geoffrey Brock

Geoffrey Brock is a Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, where he has taught creative writing and literary translation since 2006 in the MFA Program in Creative Writing and Translation. A leading figure in Literature, he holds a BA from Florida State University (1986), an MFA from the University of Florida (1998), and MA and PhD degrees in Comparative Literature from the University of Pennsylvania. Previously a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, Brock founded The Arkansas International literary magazine and continues to shape emerging writers through his teaching and editorial contributions. His career reflects a deep commitment to bridging American poetry and Italian literary traditions.

Brock's poetry collections include Weighing Light (Ivan R. Dee, 2005; winner of the New Criterion Poetry Prize), Voices Bright Flags (Waywiser Press, 2014; Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize), and After (2024). Renowned for his translations, he has brought to English readers works by Cesare Pavese (Disaffections: Complete Poems 1930–1950, Copper Canyon Press, 2002), Roberto Calasso (K, Knopf, 2005), Umberto Eco (The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana, Harcourt, 2005), Antonia Arslan (Skylark Farm, Knopf, 2007), Carlo Collodi (Pinocchio, New York Review Books, 2009 and 2012), Italo Calvino (Six Memos for the Next Millennium, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016), Giovanni Pascoli (Last Dream, Other Press, 2019), and Giuseppe Ungaretti (Allegria, Archipelago Books, 2020). He edited The FSG Book of Twentieth-Century Italian Poetry (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012). His accolades encompass Guggenheim and Cullman Center fellowships, two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, two Raiziss/de Palchi Translation Awards from the Academy of American Poets, the MLA Lois Roth Award, PEN Center USA Translation Prize, American Translators Association Lewis Galantière Award, and the American Literary Translators Association National Translation Award for Poetry. Brock's translations and poetry have profoundly influenced contemporary literary discourse, earning widespread critical acclaim.