Overview
Niloofar Ghaemi is a first-year PhD student in the Department of Literatures in English. As an MA student, she focused on the poetic convergences of environmental and memory practices in Hart Crane’s The Bridge to offer a non-dichotomized ground for facing extremis. Her work has traced how poetic experimentation reconceptualizes that which we consider negative as a positive force through revealing the creativity, vitality, and dynamism inherent in the processes of decay and forgetting.
In her present research, she is interested in examining an aporia at the intersection of avant-garde poetics and extinction studies, proposing that understanding extinction’s meaning and its call requires a turn to poetic practices that thrived at the limit and with the unintelligible. As such, she hopes to work within critical framings that emphasize experimental poetry’s penchant for reckoning with ecological calamities by casting extinction against avant-garde poetic practices.
Research Focus
- Experimental Poetry
- Extinction
- Memory
- Environmental Humanities