Lecturer

John Shoptaw

Continuing Lecturer
19th-Century American
20th- and 21st-Century American
Creative Writing
Poetry

For the past several years I've been writing and teaching ecopoetry and ecopoetics. In the spring of 2024 I'll be teaching a research seminar on Emily Dickinson.

Keats: "The poetry of earth is never dead."

Alba Tomasula y Garcia

Berkeley Lecturer
Narrative & the Novel
20th- and 21st-Century American
Critical Theory

Within the more general specialty of American literature of the 20th and 21st centuries, my work is primary focused on animal narratives (in both their fictional and nonfictional forms) and their integral place in the tangle of humans, animals, ideologies, and technologies that shaped lived experience.

Tim Wood

Holloway Lecturer in the Practice of Poetry
Poetry

Tim Wood is an English professor at Nassau Community College in Garden City, New York. He is co-editor of The Hip Hop Reader (Longman, 2008) and writes about the poetics of hip-hop as well as conceptual and visual poetry, ecocritical poetics, and the epic. His two books of poems, Otherwise Known as...