Anna De Vivo, Darwin
Course: English
Supervisor: Dr Julia Hori
Dissertation Title: Recollecting radical art-forms during the Black Arts Movement.
Biographical Information
I received an BA in English Literature from the Durham University after which I studied for my MA in Issues in Modern Culture at University College London. My PhD is generously funded by the Cambridge AHRC DTP.
Research Interests
My PhD broadly considers how Black Arts Movement poetry (c.1970-) within the United States relates to artistic visual cultures. It explores how both the movement's surrounding network of artists and their material collaborations informed poetic production which helped cultivate messages of black pride and anti-colonial liberation within and beyond the gallery. By reconsidering this relationship, it hopes to demonstrate how visual art acts as a significant intermediary which brings out moments of rejection, relation and recognition between distinct or seemingly disparate aesthetic practices. Some key poets include (although not limited to) Jayne Cortez, Ted Joans and Gwendolyn Brooks.
Research interests include: African American literary (largely poetry) and visual cultures; the Black Arts Movement; institutional histories; materiality; theories of mediation; aesthetic theory & criticism; critical/ cultural theory; post and anticolonial theory.
I can be emailed at ad2297@cam.ac.uk. I am always happy to hear from anyone who shares my research interests.
