Daniela Kukrechtova

Visiting Assistant Professor

Areas of Expertise

American poetry after 1850; multicultural literature Urban ecology; global women writers African American literature; the literature of exile Urban experience in modern American poetry

Education

Ph.D. Brandeis University

Biography

I am a Czech/US binational scholar, poet, and translator. My scholarly work has been published in African American Review, the CEA Critic and Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal. My poetry and translations have appeared in The Sunlight Press, Circumference: Poetry in Translation, and Asymptote’s Translation Tuesdays blog and my nonfiction in Persephone’s Daughters, Indiana Review and Nowhere Magazine.

My book manuscript, entitled Unplanned Cities in Modern American Poetry: Lyrical Challenges to Utopianism is currently under review at Bloomsbury Publishing, Inc.