Ariana Nadia Nash
Research Expertise
African American/African Diaspora
American
Comparative Literature
Creative Writing
Film Studies and Cultural Studies
Poetics
Women's Literature and Feminist Theory
Ariana Nadia Nash's research takes up realist poetry, particularly in the nineteenth century U.S., and particularly by African American poets, and argues that realist practices were innovated in poetry alongside prose. Her interests include poetics, global realist literature, social reproduction feminism and other anti-capitalist theory. She has previously taught at SUNY Buffalo, University of Chicago, and UNC Wilmington, and is a poet herself. Her first collection of poetry, Instructions for Preparing Your Skin, won the 2011 Philip Levine Prize in Poetry.