Alba Newmann, PhD

Alba Newmann received her PhD in English from the University of Texas at Austin, where she also received her MA. Newmann completed her B.A. in Humanities from the University of Chicago. Newmann’s dissertation is entitled, “’Language is not a vague province’: Mapping and 20th –Century American Poetry.” Newmann’s publications include a review of James Kyung-Jin Lee’s Urban Triage: Race and the Fictions of Multiculturalism, “Paterson: Poem as Rhizome,” “’I Will Fight No More Forever’: Chief Joseph’s Surrender Speech,” and several selected poems. Research interests include: Poetry and Poetics, Writing and Place- including the Environment, Travel, and Urbanism.