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MFA, New York University
Teaching interests: Poetry, cross-genre and hybrid writing, dance and performance studies, border studies, indigenous studies, translation theory and practice, literature and social movements.
PhD, Duke University
MFA, Cornell University
Teaching interests: 20th and 21st-century Latin/x American art, literature, and cinema; transnational American and border studies; critical theory; cultural studies; ethnic studies; gender and sexuality studies; creative writing: poetry, creative non-fiction, performance, visual and e-literatures, cross-genre writing.
MFA, University of Iowa
Teaching interests: Genre intersections, experimental writing, the politics of form, performance and sound poetries, typography and graphic design, small press publishing.
PhD, Harvard University
Teaching interests: Short story, flash fiction, creative nonfiction, historical fiction.
MFA, University of Notre Dame
Teaching interests: Fiction, non-fiction, flash prose, fairy tales, experimental forms.
MFA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Teaching interests: Fiction, experimental forms, and speculative fiction.
PhD, Literature and Creative Writing, University of Southern California; MFA, Poetry, University of Pittsburgh
Teaching interests: 20th- and 21st century poetry, transpacific literature, Asian-American and Chicanx poetry, citational poetics, sound studies.
MFA, Brown University
Teaching interests: Graphic texts and comics, punk rock, feminist ethics, anti-establishment literatures, Buddhist praxis, radical literary arts pedagogies.
MFA, University of Southern Maine
Teaching interests: Creative nonfiction, ecopoetics, lyric prose, Latinx literature, and queer literature.
PhD, University of Chile
Teaching interests: 20th-century and contemporary Chilean and Latin American literature, gender, sexuality, and feminist studies, psychoanalysis, activism and social movements.
PhD, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
Teaching interests: Poetry and comparative poetics; Black modernist poetics and philosophy; continental, archipelagic, and diasporic African literatures; African women’s poetry; African folklore and popular culture; Black/African feminist, postcolonial, and decolonial thoughts; translation and critical literacy studies.
PhD, UC Berkeley
Teaching interests: 16th-19th-century Spanish Empire in the Americas and the Philippines, colonial roots of globalization, comparative forms of imperialism and anti-colonial struggles, postcolonial studies, literary/cultural histories of the Philippines and its diaspora.
PhD, University of Texas at Austin
Teaching interests: Indigenous responses to colonialism and evangelization during the early colonial period; pedagogical approaches to Indigenous language learning; Central American literatures and cultures; Poetry; Translation, and Digital Humanities.
PhD, UC Santa Cruz
Teaching interests: Indigenous literatures of the Americas, Chican@/Latin@ literary and cultural movements, Central American poetics and politics, US Central Americans, and Latin American literary and cultural theories.
PhD, UC Los Angeles
Teaching interests: Clinical and theoretical psychoanalysis, film studies, aesthetics and philosophy, literary theory, semiotics.
PhD, Harvard University
Teaching interests: Early modern, modern and contemporary Chinese literature, intellectual history and film; Cultural translation in East Asia; East-West literary, aesthetic and cinematic relations; Modern and contemporary Chinese poetry; Chinese and transnational modernisms; The fantastic in East Asian literature and film; Chinese women's literature and film, East Asian ecocriticism.
PhD, Stanford University
Teaching interests: 19th- and 20th-century Russian literature, modern Yiddish literature, comparative literature, translation studies, transnational Jewish literature, the literatures of Ukraine.
PhD, UC Berkeley
Teaching interests: American Studies, Critical Ethnic Studies, speculative fiction, social movements led by Indigenous people and people of color, radical transnational movements of the 1880s-1920s, climate change, digital humanities, transnationalism.
PhD, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Teaching interests: Native American and Indigenous studies, early U.S. literature and culture, nineteenth-century literature and culture, hemispheric studies, print culture, and formations of U.S. empire.
MA,San Francisco State
PhD, SUNY
PhD, University of Chicago
BA, University of Massachusetts
PhD, UCLA