People
- Lena Crown
- Graduate Student
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- Primary Areas of Specialization: Creative writing, gender, affect, urban studies, environmental humanities
- Field of Interest: Creative Writing Studies, Environmental Humanities, Gender & Sexuality, Global Anglophone, Poetry & Poetics, Twentieth Century, Twenty-first Century
- About:
Lena Crown is a creative writer, literary scholar, editor and educator from Northern California. Her work is published or forthcoming in Guernica, Joyland, The Rumpus, Gulf Coast, Narratively, North American Review, Passages North, and elsewhere, and she has received fellowships from the Ragdale Foundation, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the Peter Bullough Foundation. She recently served as the PEN/Faulkner Writer in Residence and the Olive B. O'Connor Fellow in Nonfiction at Colgate University, and she now produces and hosts Awakeners, a Lit Hub Radio podcast about mentorship in the literary arts.
- Undergraduate Courses Taught:
Reading and Writing About Texts (Literature 201)
Introduction to Creative Writing
Introductory Creative Nonfiction
Advanced Creative Nonfiction
- Awards:
“5 Writers on the Rise You Need to Read Right Now,” Narratively
#1 Most-Read Story of the Year, Narratively
Editor’s Choice, Narratively
Colgate University Olive B. O’Connor Fellow in Nonfiction, 2023-24
2021 Montana Prize in Creative Nonfiction, Winner, CutBank
2021 Terry Tempest Williams Creative Nonfiction Prize, Honorable Mention, North American Review
- Other Publications:
“Help But Wonder,” Passages North, forthcoming
“Surface Parking,” Grist, forthcoming
“Telo,” The Rumpus
“Boys Will Be,” Guernica
“Solid Objects,” Hayden’s Ferry Review
- Visiting Professorships :
Colgate University Olive B. O’Connor Fellow in Nonfiction, 2023-24
- Education: Washington University in St. Louis (B.A.), George Mason University (MFA)
- Rosie Clarke
- Graduate Student
- At Rutgers Since: 2024
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This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. - Field of Interest: Gender & Sexuality, Global Anglophone, Theory, Twenty-first Century
- Dejavis (Javi) Bosket
- Graduate Student
- Angel C. Dye
- Graduate Student
- At Rutgers Since: 2019
- Field of Interest: African-American & Diaspora, Twentieth Century, Twenty-first Century
- About:
20th and 21st Century African American Literature, Harlem Renaissance Literature and Culture, Black Women's Writing
- Books (additional):
BREATHE (Central Square Press '21)
My Mouth a Constant Prayer (Backbone Press '23)
- Undergraduate Courses Taught:
Introduction to Creative Writing
College Writing
Expository Writing
Principles of Literary Studies
Black Novel
- Biography:
Angel C. Dye is a poet and researcher of African American Literature from Dallas-Ft. Worth, Texas by way of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Her research interests include 20th and 21st century African American Literature, specifically Harlem Renaissance Literature and Culture for her dissertation project. Her poetry has been widely published in journals and magazines, and she is the author of two chapbooks from indie presses, BREATHE (2021) and My Mouth a Constant Prayer (2023).
- Membership Affiliations:
Council of Black Graduate Students (Co-Social Chair 2023-24)
- Education: Bachelor of Arts in English - Howard University, 2017 Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing - University of Kentucky, 2019 Master of Arts in English - Rutgers, 2022
- Sophie Ziner
- PhD. Candidate
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. - Office Hours:
Tuesday 2:30-3:30, AB West, Room 6112
- Field of Interest: African-American & Diaspora, Critical Race Studies, Gender & Sexuality, Theory, Twentieth Century
Sophie Ziner writes about public reading and reception, disability, and white supremacy. She’s a Graduate Assistant at the Center for Cultural Analysis and a working artist.