Thomas Gardner, an Alumni Distinguished Professor in the Department of English, published “Poetry, Language, and History in the 1980s,” American Literature in Transition, 1980–1990, ed. Quentin Miller (Cambridge, United Kingdom, and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2018), pp. 161–73, and “Lyrical Thinking in Poetry of the 1990s,” American Literature in Transition, 1990-2000, ed. Stephen J. Burn (Cambridge, United Kingdom, and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2018), pp. 140–53.