About

Keegan Cook Finberg [she/her/hers], Assistant Professor of English, specializes in poetry and modern and contemporary literature of the United States, particularly experimental and avant-garde works. She researches across several disciplines including poetry and poetics, critical theory, feminist studies, modern and contemporary art, media, and performance.

Research interests

Post-1945 Experimental Literature; Avant-garde Poetry; Modernism; Modern and Contemporary Art and Performance; Feminist Studies; Critical Theory

Teaching interests

American Literature; Feminist Studies; Contemporary Literature; Poetry; Literary and Critical Theory

Education

  • Ph D, LiteratureUniversity of California, Santa Cruz (2015)
    From 'Avant-Garde' to 'Experimental': Reading Poetry After the 1960s
  • MA, LiteratureUniversity of California, Santa Cruz (2012)
  • BASarah Lawrence College (2006)