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.
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 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...