Ms. Theo Hummer
St. Lawrence University
Submitted by thummer on Wed, 01/14/2009 - 11:19.
Visiting Instructor of English
Courses I teach regularly:
Creative writing (poetry and fiction)
American poetry from 1865 to the present
Critical race studies
Cultural studies
My research interests:
Currently completing a Cornell doctoral dissertation, "Spell from the Colored Section: Formal Experimentation, Performance, and Segregation in Contemporary US Poetry"
small press poetry
altered and anomalous texts
visual studies
critical studies of race, especially whiteness
Sample student projects I have supervised:
The Book Rules, a young-adult historical fantasy novel Sarah Hathaway wrote for her 2010 honors project
Examples of presentations, exhibitions, performances and published work:
poems in Sentence, Vox, Equilibrium, the Indiana Review, Best New Poets 2006, and on the Verse website