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Juliana M. Spahr
Professor
Frederick A. Rice Endowed Professor
Education
BA, Bard College
PhD, State University of New York, Buffalo
Professional Interests
Digital humanities, Marxism, anti-colonialism, avant-garde, poetry
Bio
Juliana Spahr is a poet and scholar. Her scholarly work focuses on twentieth century and contemporary American literature and its relation to the state and also to social movements. She uses a range of approaches, including data collection, computational and network analysis, archival research, and close reading. Her most recent scholarly book, Du Bois’s Telegram: Literary Resistance and State Containment (Harvard U P, 2019), studies a wide range of institutional forces—such the FBI, the CIA, the State Department, and private philanthropy—that shape U.S. literary production. Her most recent poetry book, That Winter the Wolf Came (Commune Editions, 2015), takes as its concern the global spread of political struggles located at the intersection of ecological and economic catastrophe. It was listed in The New Yorker as one of the best books in 2015. She has received fellowships from the Stanford Humanities Center and the American Council of Learned Societies. She has been rewarded the O. B. Hardison Prize from the Folger Shakespeare Library. Previous to these works, she published four full-length collections of poems, two books of prose that might be memoirs, and a book of literary scholarship on U.S. experimentalism.
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