Mee-Ju Ro

Mee-Ju Ro is a Ph.D. Candidate who works on Asian American literature with a focus on gender, trauma and sexuality. Her dissertation Entangled Testimonies: The Metrics of Reported Speech is a critique of testimony as a technology of reported speech – it looks at literary and social forms of women’s autobiographies and testimonies and asks the question: during critical moments of historical redress, how has the genre of testimony functioned as both a politically empowering and complicit…

Ji Hyun Lee

Dissertation: Science Fiction and Trauma: The Apocalyptic Tradition since World War I explores the relationship between science fiction and the conceptualization of trauma by 1) articulating how traumatic events are at the heart of science fiction and 2) examining the entanglement between the emergence of science fiction and the development of the science of traumatic experience.

Ezra Feldman

Dissertation: Flat Narratology: Surface, Depth, and Speculation in Contemporary Metafiction, argues for the narrative significance of such objects as phrases, frames, and events on a par with character, setting, and plot.
Ezra will be a visiting assistant professor of English at Williams College for the 2017-2018 year.

Christina Black

Esmeralda Arrizón-Palomera

Esmeralda Arrizón-Palomera earned her PhD in English Language and Literature from Cornell University in August 2020. She specializes in U.S. Latinx and African American Literature with a focus on race, gender, and migration. Her current book project, The Coloniality of Citizenship and the Turn to the Undocumented in Feminist Thought, studies the work the undocumented immigrant, its presence and absence, has enabled in feminist history, theory, and literature from the mid-nineteenth century to…

Amber Harding

Amber Harding is a Ph.D. candidate (ABD) in English Literature at Cornell University, studying the intersections of space and literature. Her dissertation The Not-So-Great House: Domestic Space, Identity, and Homecomings in the English Modernist Novel draws from architecture, history, and psychoanalysis in addition to literary criticism and theory. Contrasting the physical elements of the “house” with the affective and subjective marks of “home,” it addresses questions of experience, belonging…

Jane Glaubman

Dr. Jane Glaubman is a Lecturer in English at Cornell University. A Marxist whose research crosses media boundaries, her interests include the novel, screen studies, popular music, and fan cultures, and her methods include archival and ethnographic study. She is working developmentally with an academic press to convert her doctoral dissertation,Deplorable Cultus: Populism, Globalization, and The Lord of the Rings, into a book manuscript. The project offers an account how this novel—a monument of mass culture that began as the secret pastime of an Oxford don—has functioned in the world: how it became mass culture, how subcultures and commercial ventures have used it, how Tolkien wound up occupying the number three position on Forbes’ magazine’s list of “Top-Earning Dead Celebrities,” and what this means for intellectual and literary life outside the academy. Other projects in progress include a book-historical investigation of 1890s publishing, medieval texts, and popular readership, as well as an article on Marion Zimmer Bradley and the origins of slash (homoerotic fanfiction).

Jesse Goldberg

Jesse A. Goldberg works in the interdisciplinary fields of Black studies and American studies with a grounding in African American literature and performance from the nineteenth century to the present. He recently defended his dissertation, The Excessive Present of Abolition: The Afterlife of Slavery in Law, Literature, and Performance, and will be Visiting Assistant Professor of English at Longwood University for the 2018-2019 academic year.
He is currently revising his dissertation into his…

Alex Harmon

Alex is a PhD graduate in English Language and Literature and was the 2016-2017 recipient of the Joseph F. Martino Lectureship in Undergraduate Teaching.

Travis Duprey

Travis received a Certificate of Completion in Journalism from Paradise Valley Community College, a BS in Justice Studies from Arizona State University, and an MFA in Creative Writing from Cornell.
Thesis: Notes From The Symposia

Lanre Akinsiku

Lanre grew up in the Bay Area and received a BA in International Political Economy from UC Berkeley and an MFA in Creative Writing from Cornell. Before coming to Cornell, he worked as a political consultant, high school teacher, travel writer and deliveryman. He nonfiction essays have been published in Zócalo Public Square, The Washington Post and Gawker. Justin and Janae, titles in Akinsiku’s Blacktop series, were selected by the New York Public Library for its list of the top books of 2016.

Mukoma Wa Ngugi

Mukoma Wa Ngugi is Associate Professor of Literatures in English at Cornell University and the author of The Rise of the African Novel: Politics of Language, Identity and Ownership, the novelsMrs. Shaw,Black Star Nairobi,Nairobi Heat, and two books of poetry,Logotherapyand Hurling Words at Consciousness. Unbury Our Dead With Song, a novel about competing Tizita musicians, was released from Cassava Republic Press in May of 2021.

Timothy Murray

A Professor of Comparative Literature and Literatures in English, Timothy Murray is Director of the Cornell Council for the Arts, Curator of the Cornell Biennial, Curator of the Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art, and co-moderator of the -empyre- new media listserv. A curator of contemporary art andtheorist of the cinematic and digital arts, he is Chair of the Board of Directors of Humanities New York, and sits on the Executive Committee of HASTAC. He is a Senior Fellow of the School of Criticism and Theory, PI of Cornell's Mellon Collaborative Studies in Architecture, Urbanism, and the Humanities, andForeign PI in the Global Research Network of the National Research Foundation of Korea. He is the author ofMedium Philosophicum: para un pensamiento tecnológico del arte (Murcia/CENDEAC, forthcoming, 2022),Technics Improvised: Activating Touch in Global Media Art (Minnesota, 2022),Digital Baroque: New Media Art and Cinematic Folds (Minnesota, 2008), Zonas de Contacto: el arte en CD-Rom (Centro de la Imagen, 1999), Drama Trauma: Specters of Race and Sexuality in Performance, Video, Art (Routledge, 1997), Like a Film: Ideological Fantasy on Screen, Camera, and Canvas (Routledge, 1993), Theatrical Legitimation: Allegories of Genius In XVIIth-Century England and France (Oxford, 1987), ed., Mimesis, Masochism Mime: The Politics of Theatricality in Contemporary French Thought (Michigan, 1997), ed. with Shin-Yi Yang,Xu Bing's Background Stories(Life Bookstore Publishing, Mandarin), anded. with Alan Smith, Repossessions: Psychoanalysis and the Phantasms of Early-Modern Culture (Minnesota, 1998). His curated exhibitions include the 2022 Cornell Biennial, Futurities, Uncertain, 2020 Cornell Biennial, Swarm: Ecology, Digitality, Sociality, 2018 Cornell Biennial, Duration: Passage, Persistance, Survival, Cornell Library's 2016 Signal to Code: Fifty Years of Media Art in the Goldsen Archive, Hunter College Art Galleries' 2015 Experimental Television Center: ETC..., CTHEORY Multimedia(2000-2003), and Contact Zones: The Art of CD-Rom touring from 1999-2004.

Valzhyna Mort

Valzhyna Mort is a poet and translator born in Minsk, Belarus, and she writes in English and Belarusian. She is the author of three poetry collections, Factory of Tears (Copper Canyon Press 2008), Collected Body (Copper Canyon Press 2011) and, mostly recently, Music for the Dead and Resurrected (FSG, 2020), named one of the best poetry book of 2020 by The New York Times and The NPR, and the winner of the 2020 International Griffin Poetry Prize and the 2022 UNT Rilke Prize.

Robert Morgan

Robert Morgan is the author of fifteen books of poetry, most recently Terroir and Dark Energy. He has also published nine volumes of fiction, including Gap Creek, a New York Times bestseller. A sequel to Gap Creek, The Road From Gap Creek, was published in 2013. A new novel, Chasing the North Star, was published in 2015. In addition he is the author of three nonfiction books, Good Measure: Essays, Interviews, and Notes on Poetry; Boone: A Biography; and Lions of the West: Heroes and Villains of the Westward Expansion, 2011. He has been awarded the James G. Hanes Poetry Prize by the Fellowship of Southern Writers, and the Academy Award in Literature by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 2013 he received the History Award Medal from the DAR. Recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim and Rockefeller foundations, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the New York State Arts Council, he has served as visiting writer at Davidson College, Furman, Duke, Appalachian State, and East Carolina universities. A member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers, he was inducted into the North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame in 2010. Born in Hendersonville, North Carolina, October 3, 1944, he has taught since 1971 at Cornell University, where he is Kappa Alpha Professor of English. At Cornell he has taught courses in American literature, modern poetry, autobiography, as well as poetry and fiction writing.

Jonathan B. Monroe

Working in English, French, German, and Spanish, with a focus on Europe and the Americas, modern and contemporary poetry, aesthetics and politics, history and literary history, philosophy and critical theory, poetics, economies, and ecologies, genres, platforms, and media, Jonathan Monroe is the author most recently ofFraming Roberto Bolaño. Poetry, Fiction, Literary History, Politics(Cambridge University Press, hardback and digital 2019, paperback 2021) and editor andco-authorofRoberto Bolaño in Context(Cambridge University Press, August 2023), a collection of thirty essays framed by his opening chapter, “Mapping Bolaño’s Worlds.” A companion essayfor TheOxford Handbook of the Latin American Novel, “Transnational, Intermedial Pressures in Roberto Bolaño’s Prose Poem Novels,” appearedfrom Oxford University Press in 2023. Extending concerns previously developed in such articles and chapter contributions as Genre,” Philosophy, Poetry, Parataxis,” and Urgent Matter,” his current research focuses on a book-in-progress nearing completion,Appositional Poetics, Poetry’s Knowledge: Poetry among Discoursesand Media.Author ofA Poverty of Objects: The Prose Poem and the Politics of Genre; and co-author and editor ofWriting and Revising the Disciplines;Local Knowledges, Local Practices: Writing in the Disciplines at Cornell;Poetry Community, Movement; andPoetics of Avant-Garde Poetries, he has published widely on modern and contemporary poetry and poetics, innovative poetries of the past two centuries, avant-garde movements and their contemporary legacies, writing and disciplinary practices, and interdisciplinary approaches in literary and cultural studies. In addition toDemosthenes’ Legacy, a book of prose poems and short fiction, he has published poetry and cross-genre writing in numerous journals, includingThe American Poetry Review,Epoch,Harvard Review,/nor New Ohio Review,Verse,Volt, andXcp: Cross-Cultural Poetics.

Satya P. Mohanty

Satya P. Mohanty was born in Orissa, India, and was educated in India and the United States. His work in literary criticism and theory has focused on issues that are shaped by his bi-cultural background and his commitment to a vision of culture as “a field of moral inquiry” (on this view of culture, see chapter 7 of Literary Theory and the Claims of History). Succinct statements of his current and past research projects can be found in the following interviews: “Thinking Across Cultures”(2008) and From Indian Literature to World Literature (2012).

Natalie Melas

Ph.D. in Comparative Literature (English, French, Ancient Greek), UC Berkeley. Her interests range across Francophone and Anglophone Caribbean literature and thought, modern Greek, modern French and modern English poetry, comparison, modernism and colonialism, Homer, Césaire, Cavafy, philosophies of time, decadence, barbarism, alexandrianism, comparative modernities, world literature in world history, postcolonial or decolonial studies, aesthetics and politics, racial capitalism and the poetics of landscape. She is the author of All the Difference in the World: Postcoloniality and the Ends of Comparison (Stanford UP, 2007) and co-editor of The Princeton Sourcebook in Comparative Literature (Princeton UP, 2009). She is slowly finishing a book tentatively titled Modern Lyric and Racial Time around Aimé Césaire and C.P. Cavafy. Her current research centers on a transmedial inquiry into Caribbean environmentalities through poetic and visual registers and has taken the form of an award-winning collaborative short experimental film made with documentary filmmaker Kannan Arunasalam and architect and spatial theorist, Tao DuFour, “We Love We Self Up Here” (2021) https://vimeo.com/612111115?embedded=true&source=vimeo_logo&owner=105731070

Jon McKenzie

Jon McKenzie is Director of StudioLab and Professor of Practice. He is the author ofPerform or Else: From Discipline to Performance(2001), whichfocuses on cultural, organizational, and technological performance in post-disciplinarysocieties, andTransmedia Knowledge for Liberal Arts and Community Engagement: A StudioLab Manifesto(2019), which articulates a critical design practice combining critical thinking, tactical media, and design thinking. StudioLab collaborates with community organizations, non-profit and non-governmental organizations in both the US and abroad. Jon is also Faculty Affiliate with the Bronfenbrenner Center for Translational Research.