English
College of Liberal Arts
Twin Cities
Award Year
2021
University Award
McKnight Presidential Fellow Award
Research Title
Ways of reckoning: Critical Black poetics
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Douglas Kearney is an award-winning poet and critic working on / with / through Black aesthetics and performance. His research engages literature, music, and entertainment with foci in interdisciplinary artistic praxes, the grotesque, and the crossroads where antiblack violence meets spectacle. His books include Mess and Mess and, Buck Studies, and Sho. A librettist, Kearney’s most recent operas are Crescent City, Sweet Land, and Comet / Poppea (commissioned by the American Modern Opera Company). His courses range from a lab for developing new poetic forms to seminars on genre agnostic writing.