Georgiana "Georgi" de Rham is a PhD student in the Department of English at UC Davis. Her research interests include contemporary poetry, improvisation and performance, sound studies, water, and the environmental humanities. She has a professional background in small scale agriculture, logistics, and horse care.
Selected Presentations
"Liquid Listening: Sound Cycles and Water Cycles in Erin Robinsong's Wet Dream." McGill English Department MA Research Colloquium, Montreal, Quebec, April 18 2025.
“Agriculture as Art: Tending the Earth in Climate Change.” Improvising Care Conference, a partnership between the International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation, the Laboratory of Urban Culture, Toolkit Of Care, and Arts in the Margins. Montreal, Quebec, October 5-9 2024.
“Improvising Rivers: Transforming Space through Nonhuman Performance.” McGill University English Graduate Student Association Annual Conference 2024. Montreal, Quebec, April 6-7 2024.
“Rivers in Resistance: River Poetics and Performance in and beyond the Poetry of Natalie Diaz.” Narratives of Water International Conference: Flows, Routes, Crises in the Atlantic World. University of Turin, Turin Italy, March 21-22 2024.
- MA English, McGill University 2023
- BA English summa cum laude with a minor in French Studies, Cornell University 2015
- 2024-25 Fonds de recherche du Québec Société et Culture, Scholarship for Return to Research at the Master's Level
- 2023-24 McGill International Research Master's Award
- TA for ENL 147, Fall 2025
- contemporary poetry and poetics, improvisation, sound, ecocriticism, environmental humanities
- In collaboration with Jay Ritchie: "The sounds in-between: a conversation between Jay Ritchie and Georgiana de Rham." Jacket2, 24 July 2025. https://jacket2.org/interviews/sounds-between
- de Rham, Georgiana. “Weathering the Storms of History: on In Inheritance of Drowning by Dorsía Smith Silva.” Jacket2, 4 February 2025. https://jacket2.org/reviews/weathering-storms-history
- de Rham, Georgiana. “Excavating intimacies: a review of Siwar Massanat’s cue.” Jacket2, 23 October 2024. https://jacket2.org/reviews/excavating-intimacies.
- Graduate Student Association Representative, AY 2025-26
- Phi Beta Kappa