Lara Lee Meintjes

Biography: 

B.A. Williams College; English with Highest Honors (Summa Cum Laude, 2022)
A.A. Long Beach City College; Anthropology and Social Science (2019)

Current Research: 

My current research explores the sociability of lyric poetry, and the intersection of poetry and visual art. My work typically attends to the “how” of poetry and other media, seeking answers to questions of attention, immersion, and imagination. Peer-reviewed publications include “Faltering Toward Agency: A Search for Eurydice’s Voice” and “Death by Depiction: Absence in the Landscapes of the Group of Seven and in Margaret Atwood’s Death by Landscape” both in Margaret Atwood Studies.

Areas of particular interest include documentary poetry, ecocriticism, vanishing points and absences, the immigrant experience, Keats, Clare, Rukeyser, Atwood, Kentridge, and Turner.