Visiting Assistant Professor of Literature

Theo Hummer earned her poetry M.F.A. and her Ph.D at Cornell University. She has taught at several liberal arts colleges, at Interlochen Center for the Arts, in a Czech cigarette factory, and at Auburn Maximum Security Men's Prison. Her poems have appeared in Sentence, Vox, the Indiana Review, and Best New Poets 2006. Her research and teaching interests include modern and contemporary poetry, American literature, critical race studies, the graphic novel, hybrid and anomalous texts, and creative writing. She is currently at work on a book of poems and a study of abecedarian experiment, performance, and the linguistic production of race in twenty-first century American poetry.