Mary Baine Campbell

Mary Baine Campbell (born Hudson, Ohio) is an American poet, scholar, and professor. She teaches medieval and Renaissance literature, as well as creative writing, at Brandeis University.

Opinions

Campbell has taken the stance that Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a human rights activist who survived genital mutilation as a child in Somalia, renounced her Muslim faith and now crusades against radical Islam is, "an ignorant, ultra-right-wing extremist, abusively, shockingly vocal in her hatred for Muslim culture and Muslims, a purveyor of the dangerous and imaginary concept, born of European distaste for the influx of immigrants from its former colonies… To call her a ‘woman’s rights activist’ is like calling Squeaky Fromm an environmentalist." ^[1][2]

Awards

• 1999 James Russell Lowell Prize, awarded to the best book of the year in literary studies, from the Modern Language Association, for Wonder and Science.^[3]
• 2000 Susanne C. Glasscock Humanities Book Award
• 1988 Barnard Women Poets Prize

Scholarship, research, and creative works

• The Witness and the Other World: Exotic European Travel Writing, 400-1600. Cornell University Press. 1991. ISBN 978-0-8014-9933-3.
• Peter Hulme, Tim Youngs, eds. (2002). "Travel writing and its theory". The Cambridge companion to travel writing. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-78652-2.
• Wonder & science: imagining worlds in early modern Europe. Cornell University Press. 2004. ISBN 978-0-8014-8918-1.

Poetry

• The world, the flesh, and angels. Beacon Press. 1989. ISBN 978-0-8070-6806-9.
• Trouble: poems. Carnegie Mellon University Press. 2003. ISBN 978-0-88748-382-0.

Editor

• Mary B. Campbell, Mark Rollins, eds. (1989). Begetting images: studies in the art and science of symbol production. Peter Lang. ISBN 978-0-8204-1045-6.

References

1. David G. Allen, Robert A. White, eds. (1992). The work of dissimilitude: essays from the Sixth Citadel Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Literature. University of Delaware Press. ISBN 978-0-87413-435-3.
2. Stefanie Tuck (2/11/03). "Brandeis professor serves up some 'Trouble'". The Justice. Check date values in: |date= (help)
3. "James Russell Lowell Prize", Modern Language Association

External links

• Campbell's faculty page at Brandeis.
• Brandeis faculty guide, including photograph.