In this bold new study of twentieth-century American writing and poetics, Natalia Cecire
argues that experimental writing should be understood as a historical phenomenon before it …

This essay addresses the recent reception of Frank O'Hara's poem “Having a Coke with
You” to examine the much-maligned concept of relatability as a potentially useful aesthetic …

" This project is a feminist study of the idiosyncratic oeuvre of Kathy Acker and how her
unique art and politics, located at the explosive intersection of punk, postmodernism, and …

The severe financial austerity imposed on New York City during the 1975 fiscal crisis
resulted in a city falling apart. Broken windows, crumbling walls, and piles of bricks were …

The punk movement of the 1970s to early 1980s is examined as an art movement through
archive research, interviews, and art historical analysis. It is about pop, pain, poetry …

We write as colleagues and friends, embracing similarities and differences in our past,
understandings and everyday life. Here we draw both from the growing academic literature …

This essay reads the poet Eileen Myles's recent turn to climate activism as an extension of
their queer critique of predatory urban change on Manhattan's Lower East Side, where they …

After its conception in the 1970s, punk rock spread both in the United States and
internationally, taking on multiple, distinct forms in various areas. This caused a cascade of …

Each chapter in this dissertation examines works of queer fiction that developed in relation
to other genres: poetry, theater and performance art, journalism, and autobiography. As I will …