Augusta Funk

Biography

PhD Candidate, UC Davis 2021 - Present

M.F.A in Poetry, University of Michigan, 2019

B.A. in English, Macalester College, 2014

Research Interests

I am a poet, scholar, and PhD candidate working at the intersections of modern and contemporary poetry and poetics, cultural studies and aesthetic theory, and language politics. My dissertation, "Poetry's Repair: Gestures, Textures, Touch" considers the reparative turn in contemporary North American poetry. 

Fields of Interest

Contemporary Poetry and Poetics, Critical Race and Ethnicity Studies, Queer and Feminist Theory, Science and Technology Studies, Psychoanalysis, Black Studies, Environmental Humanities

Peer-Reviewed Publications

• "Layli Long Soldier's Poetics of Repair: Translingual Pedagogies in Whereas," forthcoming in Contemporary Women's Writing.

Other Publications

• Liberatory Blueprints: A Review of Jina B. Kim's "Care at the End of the World: Dreaming of Infrastructure in Crip-of-Color Writing."
• Poems in Witness, Brink, Poetry Northwest, Interim, Massachusetts Review, Colorado Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Fairy Tale Review, Four Way Review, Cream City Review, the Offing, and elsewhere.

Presentations

• "Shoals, Shimmers, Flesh: Citational Performances in M. NourbSe Philip’s Zong!" ASAP/17, Madison WI October 2026
• "Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's Earth Time: Maternal Writing in Dictée" ASLE Biennial Conference, College Park MD July 2025
• "Muriel Ruekyser's Recorded Silence: The Politics of the Poetry Reading" Uncommon Senses V Montreal, Quebec May 2025
• "The Anti-Anti Lyric: Reading Abolition Beyond the Human in Gwendolyn Brooks's 'In the Mecca'" ASLE 2023 Biennial Conference, Portland OR July 2023
• "Landscapes of Cohabitation in Hannah Weiner's Clairvoyant Journal" 2022 ASAP/13, Los Angeles CA September 2022

Honors and Awards

• Russel J. and Dorothy S. Bilinski Educational Dissertation Fellowship, UC Davis 2026-27
• Professors for the Future Fellow, UC Davis 2026-27
• Dean's Summer Fellowship, UC Davis 2024
• David Noel Miller Prize for Best Critical Essay, UC Davis 2022
• Zell Fellowship in Poetry, University of Michigan, 2017-18 and 2019-20

Teaching

• ENL3, UC Davis Fall 2024 - Present
• UWP1Y, UC Davis Fall 2023 - Spring 2024
• UWP1, UC Davis Fall 2022 - Spring 2023
• TA, UC Davis ENL180, ENL130, and ENL185C Fall 2021 - Spring 2022
• ENL 225, University of Michigan Spring 2019
• ENL 125, University of Michigan Fall 2018
• Peer Writing Tutor, Macalester College Fall 2011-Spring 2014