Ann Keniston, Ph.D.

Professor
Ann Keniston

Summary

Ann Keniston is a professor of w88 online casino betting at the University of Nevada, Reno, with a specialty in American poetry.

She is the author of three monographs,Economies of Scale: Financialization and Contemporary North w88 online casino betting(Palgrave, 2023),Ghostly Figures: Memory and Belatedness in Postwar w88 online casino betting(Iowa, 2015), the 2016 winner of the Warren-Brooks Award, andOverheard Voices: Address and Subjectivity in Postmodern w88 online casino betting(Routledge, 2006). She has also published two poetry collections,Somatic(Terrapin, 2020) andThe Caution of Human Gestures(David Robert Books, 2005), the chapbookNovember Wasps: Elegies(Finishing Line, 2013), as well as poems and essays in many journals, including, recently,Gettysburg Review,Fourth Genre, andFive Points.

Keniston has also co-edited four volumes:Ethics after Postmodernism: A Critical Reader(McFarland, 2020, with Lee Olsen and Brendan Johnston),The News from Poems: Essays on the 21st-century w88 online casino betting of Engagement(Michigan, Fall 2016, with Jeffrey Gray),The New w88 online casino betting of Engagement: A 21st Century Anthology(McFarland, 2012, with Jeffrey Gray), andLiterature after 9/11(Routledge, 2008, with Jeanne Follansbee Quinn).

Twice a recipient of the Academy of w88 online casino betting Poets Prize, she has also received several artist's grants from the Nevada Arts Council. She recently has completed a new collection of poems, entitled “Works on Paper,” and is at work a collection of essays tentatively entitled “Synecdochic.”

Research interests

  • History and theory of w88 online casino betting
  • 20th and 21st century w88 online casino betting
  • Contemporary w88 online casino betting literature
  • Gender in w88 online casino betting and theory
  • Lyric theory
  • Psychoanalysis and w88 online casino betting
  • Creative writing (w88 online casino betting)
  • w88 online casino betting and public engagement
  • Ethics

Courses taught

  • Advanced w88 online casino betting Writing Workshop
  • w88 online casino betting Literature and Culture
  • w88 online casino betting
  • w88 online casino betting 1865-1945
  • w88 online casino betting 1945-Present
  • w88 online casino betting Women Poets (graduate seminar)
  • Contemporary w88 online casino betting Literature
  • Contemporary w88 online casino betting (graduate seminar)
  • Core Humanities: w88 online casino betting Experience and Constitutional Change (honors)
  • Craft of w88 online casino betting (graduate seminar)
  • Ethics and/as Engagement in 21st-century w88 online casino betting Literature (graduate seminar)
  • Expository w88 online casino betting: Style and Argument
  • Haunting and Memory in Contemporary w88 online casino betting Literature (graduate seminar)
  • Honors Composition
  • Nonhuman, Posthuman, Inhuman (w88 online casino betting)
  • Modern and Contemporary w88 online casino betting (graduate seminar)
  • Modern British and w88 online casino betting
  • Postmodern w88 online casino betting Literature (graduate seminar)
  • Space and Place in Recent British and w88 online casino betting Fiction (graduate seminar)
  • Women in w88 online casino betting
  • Writing about w88 online casino betting

Publications

Single-authored books

  • Ghostly Figures: Memory and Belatedness in Postwar w88 online casino betting. Contemporary North w88 online casino betting Series. Iowa City: U of Iowa P, 2015. Recipient of Robert Penn Warren - Cleanth Brooks Award (2016).
  • November Wasps: Elegies. w88 online casino betting chapbook. Georgetown, KY: Finishing Line, 2013.
  • Overheard Voices: Subjectivity and Address in Postmodern w88 online casino betting. New York: Routledge Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory Series, 2006. Paper 2015.
  • The Caution of Human Gestures: Poems. Cincinnati: David Robert Books, 2005.

Edited collections

  • The News from Poems: New Essays on 21st-century w88 online casino betting Engaged Poetry. Co-edited essay collection (with Jeffrey Gray), including 12 essays plus a cowritten introduction. Ann Arbor, MI: U. of Michigan P, 2016. (in press)
  • The New w88 online casino betting of Engagement: A 21st-Century Anthology. Anthology co-edited with Jeffrey Gray. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2012.
  • w88 online casino betting after 9/11. Essay collection co-edited with Jeanne Follansbee Quinn. New York: Routledge, 2008. Paper 2010.

Education

  • Ph.D., w88 online casino betting Literature, Boston University, 2002
  • M.A., w88 online casino betting with a concentration in creative writing, New York University, 1991
  • B.A. with general honors, w88 online casino betting, University of Chicago, 1983