Graduate Student

Drew Kiser

20th- and 21st-Century American

African

Atlantic

Creative Writing

Cultural Studies

Gender & Sexuality Studies

Film

Traditional approaches to "queer ecology" assume that queerness can be leveraged better to achieve the aims of environmentalism. My project destabilizes this relationship, asking what happens to nature if we honor the anti-essentialist capacities of queer theory. Combining analyses of homonationalism, greenwashing, and the evolution of genre through colonial literay networks, I explore the imbrications of sexuality, ecology, and form in the 19th and 20th centuries. In particular, I am interested in the works of South African novelist K. Sello Duiker (13 Cents, The Quiet Violence of...

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Tom Kozlowski

20th- and 21st-Century British

20th- and 21st-Century American

Creative Writing

Disability Studies

Poetry

I'm a person who writes poems and carries broad interests in sense perception, mystical thought and spiritual practice (especially through Yoga philosophy), aesthetic experience, and spectra running from ordinary to extraordinary language. within this constellation I try to interrogate why and how our historical sensory configurations—namely, and at present, Western ocularcentrism—come to shape and/or delude contact with life as it is, its oneness, its practical as well as spiritual reality. most of all, I'm learning how to approach these questions through the filter of my own experience...