About
20th- and 21st-century U.S. and Latina/o/x Literatures and Cultures, Latin American poetry and fiction, comparative modernism, poetry and poetics. Education
Ph.D., Rutgers University, English
M.A., Middlebury College, Spanish
M.F.A., Warren Wilson College, Poetry
B.A., University of Rochester, English, Religion and Classics Work Shared in CORE
Conference papers
Syllabi
Other Publications
LIST OF PUBLICATIONS
“Late (Print) Capitalism and the Remediating Poetics of Contemporary Puerto Rican and Latinx Poetry,”
Expressive Networks: Poetry and Platform Cultures, under advance contract with Amherst College Press, forthcoming.
“Teaching the Mexican Revolution in the American Literature Survey,”
Teaching the Mexican Revolution, ed. Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado, MLA Options for Teaching Series, forthcoming.
“Rehearing ‘The Negro Speaks of Rivers’ in an Era of Global Decolonization:
ASK YOUR MAMA’s Jazz Poetics,” special issue on “‘The Negro Speaks of Rivers at 100,’” ed. Shane Graham and Chiyuma Elliot,
Langston Hughes Review, Vol. 27, No. 1, 2021.
“Addressing Alien Worlds: Publics and Persons in the Poetry of Jack Spicer.”
Contemporary Literature. Winter 2017, Vol. 58, No. 4.
“Genre and Nationality in Nineteenth Century British and American Poetry.” With Meredith McGill, et. al.
Teaching Transatlanticism: Resources for Teaching Nineteenth-Century Anglo-American Print Culture. Edited by Linda K. Hughes and Sarah Robbins. Edinburgh UP, 2015.
IN PREPARATION
“Wallace Stevens and the Fate of Modernist Studies,” draft of article. 23 pages. Plan to submit
MLQ Summer 2023.
“Stranger Dialectics: César Vallejo and the ‘Inquietudes’ of Parisian Social Space,” draft of article. 42 pages. Plan to submit to
Modernism/modernity Summer 2023.
“The Cultural Logic of Minor Refusal,” draft of article. 25 pages. Plan to submit to
Post45 Summer 2023.
“‘Working the Structures’: Character-Space in Roberto Bolaño’s
Nazi Literature of the Americas,” draft of article. 36 pages.
SELECTED ESSAYS
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Introduction: ‘Not Only a Metaphor’.”
Decolonize X?.
Post45 Contemporaries Series, ed. Scott Challener. 10 Aug 2021.
“‘
Only Through and Across Difference’: Historical Poetics and Historical Antagonism in Contemporary Poetry Studies.”
ASAP/J. 4 Sep 2020.
“
Harlem.” A Poetry Guide for the Poetry Foundation. 25 Sep 2019.
“‘A Breathable Language’: Oliverio Girondo and the Poetry of the Americas.” Los Angeles Review of Books. 11 Apr 2019.
POETRY PUBLICATIONS
Ghosts & Indices, chapbook. Finalist, Omnidawn 2018 Chapbook Contest and 2018 Baltic Writing Residency Contest.
Individual poems appear in
The Nation, Omniverse,
Pangyrus, Lana Turner Journal, Gulf Coast, The Mississippi Review, RHINO, The Collagist, Narrative Magazine, The Cortland Review.
SELECTED BOOK REVIEWS
- Traveler by Devin Johnston.The Rumpus, 24 August 2012, https://therumpus.net/2012/08/traveler-by-devin-johnston/.
- “Feeling by Thinking.” Review of The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke by Theodore Roethke. National Book Foundation, 25 February 2011, http://nbapoetryblog.squarespace.com/journal/2011/2/25/1959.html.
- “The Other Jarrell.” Review of The Woman at Washington Zoo by Randall Jarrell. National Book Foundation, 1 March 2011, http://nbapoetryblog.squarespace.com/journal/2011/3/1/1961.html.
- “The Amphibian Nerve of Life.” Review of Selected Poems by Howard Moss. National Book Foundation, 15 March 2011, http://nbapoetryblog.squarespace.com/journal/2011/3/16/1972.html.
- “Little Things.” Review of Life Supports:New and Collected Poems by William Bronk.National Book Foundation, 1 April 2011, http://nbapoetryblog.squarespace.com/journal/2011/4/1/1982.html.
- “A Stranger in a Thousand Particulars.” Review of Effort at Speech: New and Collected Poems by William Meredith. National Book Foundation, 14 April 2011, http://nbapoetryblog.squarespace.com/journal/2011/4/14/1997.html.
- “The Return of Sweetness.” Review of Watching the Spring Festivalby Frank Bidart. The Rumpus, 23 February 2011, https://therumpus.net/2009/02/the-return-of-sweetness/.
SELECTED POETRY PUBLICATIONS
The Nation, Pangyrus,
Lana Turner Journal, Gulf Coast, The Mississippi Review, RHINO, The Collagist, Narrative Magazine, The Cortland Review.
Projects
Current Book Project: Practicing the Impossible: Translation and the Postwar Poetry of the Americas
Second Project: “Minor Refusal: A Brief History”
Third Project: “American Literature in an Era of Global Decolonization” Upcoming Talks and Conferences
“‘The Negro Speaks of Rivers’ at 100.” Modern Language Association, January 2021 (virtual)
“Translating Sapphics: The Neruda-Bishop-Moore Nexus and the Transnational Relay of Genre.” American Literature Association, San Diego, CA (May 2020, canceled due to pandemic)
“Poetry as ‘Reject Note’: The Black Radical Magazine and the Poetics of Global Decolonization.” American
Comparative Literature Association, Chicago, IL (March 2020, canceled due to pandemic) Memberships
Modern Languages Association
American Comparative Literature Association
Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present
Modernist Studies Association
American Studies Association
American Literature Association