Transformation and Engagement: an interview with H.L. Hix

An interview with author, editor, academic and philosopher H.L. Hix discussing such topics as philosophy and poetry, interdisciplinary engagement, pedagogy, writing processes and rules, humane teaching, neoliberalism, human capital, mediation, collage, remix, appropriation, curating, dialogue, and writing practice.H.L. Hix is Professor in the Philosophy Department and the Creative Writing Program at the University of Wyoming. His 25+ books include works of philosophy (studies of ‘the death of the author’ and postmodernism), practical criticism (monographs on writers William Gass and W.S. Merwin), translation (such as his collaborative translation, with Juri Talvet, of the poems of the Estonian peasant poet Juhan Liiv), anthologies (such as the recent Ley Lines), essays on poetry (including Lines of Inquiry), and poetry (including a ‘selected poems’, First Fire, Then Birds). His Chromatic was a finalist for the 2006 National Book Award in Poetry. He has received a fellowship from the National Endowment for...