Presented By: Department of English Language and Literature
Critical Conversations
Welcome Week Dissertation and Thesis Showcase
Aida Levy-Hussen, Chair
Participants: Noor Al-Samarrai, Alyse Campbell, Maya Day, Emma Erlbacher, Jennifer Nessel, Asa Zhang
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“Baghdad: Dwellings, Poetry and Oral History”
Noor Al-Samarrai is the author of EL CERRITO (Inside the Castle, 2018)2. She earned her MFA in Creative Writing at U-M, where she is currently a postgraduate Zell Fellow in poetry, researching and writing her second collection of documentary poetry tracing the emotional cartography of mid-20th century Baghdad.
“Narratives of Collaboration: Exploring Community-Driven Approaches to First-Year Writing Course Design”
Alyse Campbell is a PhD Candidate in the Joint Program in English and Education whose current research focuses on community-engaged writing classrooms and first-year writing pedagogy: specifically on the collaborative processes between instructors and community partners. She is a former high school English teacher and received her M.A. in Teaching as well as her B.A. in English and Communication.
“Reading Through Mitákuye Oyásʼiŋ: Agonistic Relations in the circulation of Layli Long Soldier’s Quilts”
Maya Day is a 6th year English PhD Candidate and the James A. Winn Graduate Fellow at the Institute of the Humanities. Her project, "Leaking Poems" studies poets who escape the pressures of mainstream recognition and instead form counterpublics through unconventional circulation practices of their poems.
Title Forthcoming
Emma Erlbacher is a poet from Iowa. Her poetry centers the erotic, queerness, family, the natural world, and mental health.
"The Cage: A Novel"
Jennifer Nessel is a fiction writer at the University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers Program. Their writing has been supported by GrubStreet and has appeared in The Southern Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, and elsewhere.
“Translation Un/Bound: Transnational Ideologies and Orientalist Forms in Modernist Poetry, 1895-1955”
Asa Zhang is a sixth-year doctoral candidate in English and a Rackham Predoctoral Fellow. Her work traces the shifting relations between form, ideology, and aesthetic practice in English poetry from the late Victorian era through late modernism, particularly under transnational and global conditions of production and reception. Her essays have appeared or are forthcoming in Modern Language Quarterly, English Language Notes, Feminist Review, and other venues.
Participants: Noor Al-Samarrai, Alyse Campbell, Maya Day, Emma Erlbacher, Jennifer Nessel, Asa Zhang
RSVP here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeW2XrzbB2peOPVyFXtzm7A58xDctlwC6BwFCphZipjqKRjjQ/viewform
“Baghdad: Dwellings, Poetry and Oral History”
Noor Al-Samarrai is the author of EL CERRITO (Inside the Castle, 2018)2. She earned her MFA in Creative Writing at U-M, where she is currently a postgraduate Zell Fellow in poetry, researching and writing her second collection of documentary poetry tracing the emotional cartography of mid-20th century Baghdad.
“Narratives of Collaboration: Exploring Community-Driven Approaches to First-Year Writing Course Design”
Alyse Campbell is a PhD Candidate in the Joint Program in English and Education whose current research focuses on community-engaged writing classrooms and first-year writing pedagogy: specifically on the collaborative processes between instructors and community partners. She is a former high school English teacher and received her M.A. in Teaching as well as her B.A. in English and Communication.
“Reading Through Mitákuye Oyásʼiŋ: Agonistic Relations in the circulation of Layli Long Soldier’s Quilts”
Maya Day is a 6th year English PhD Candidate and the James A. Winn Graduate Fellow at the Institute of the Humanities. Her project, "Leaking Poems" studies poets who escape the pressures of mainstream recognition and instead form counterpublics through unconventional circulation practices of their poems.
Title Forthcoming
Emma Erlbacher is a poet from Iowa. Her poetry centers the erotic, queerness, family, the natural world, and mental health.
"The Cage: A Novel"
Jennifer Nessel is a fiction writer at the University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers Program. Their writing has been supported by GrubStreet and has appeared in The Southern Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, and elsewhere.
“Translation Un/Bound: Transnational Ideologies and Orientalist Forms in Modernist Poetry, 1895-1955”
Asa Zhang is a sixth-year doctoral candidate in English and a Rackham Predoctoral Fellow. Her work traces the shifting relations between form, ideology, and aesthetic practice in English poetry from the late Victorian era through late modernism, particularly under transnational and global conditions of production and reception. Her essays have appeared or are forthcoming in Modern Language Quarterly, English Language Notes, Feminist Review, and other venues.
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