Lauryn Anderson
Biography
I graduated with a BA (Starred First) in English from Cambridge in 2020, before moving to Oxford as a Clarendon Scholar for my MSt in English Literature, 1900-Present (Distinction). My PhD is funded by a Harding Scholarship.
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Research Interests
Theories of documentary, documents and other kinds of ‘invisible literature’; collage, mixed-form and intertextuality; archives (and their limits); 20th and 21st century poetry; contemporary fiction; cities and urbanity; theories of reading; affect theory; photography & photographic theory; postcolonial theory; genre theory (especially prose poems and image-textual hybrids)
Writers I have previously written on: Mina Loy; Hope Mirrlees; Nancy Cunard; Langston Hughes; Marianne Moore; Valeria Luiselli; Solmaz Sharif; Philip Metres
Writers I am currently thinking about: Storm Jameson; Humphrey Jennings; Una Marson; Muriel Rukeyser; Charles Reznikoff; F.R. Scott; Susan Howe; M. NourbeSe Philip; Natalie Harkin
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Publications
'Preserving the Slip: Poetry, Archives, and Error’, Poetry, Representation and the Archive, ed. by Jeremy Noel-Tod, special issue of English: A Journal of the English Association, 74.284 (2025), 14–38 <https://doi.org/10.1093/english/efaf010>
Review of The Muriel Rukeyser Era: Selected Prose ed. Eric Keenaghan and Rowena Kennedy-Epstein (Cornell University Press, 2023), Modernism/modernity, 31.3 (2024), 599-602 <https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/mod.2024.a956659>
‘“Daily I Sit | with the Language”: Solmaz Sharif’s and Philip Metres’s Documentary Poetics of War’, The Cambridge Quarterly, 49.4 (2020), 372–95 <https://doi.org/10.1093/camqtly/bfaa032>. Winner of the 2020 Cambridge Quarterly Prize.