Georgiana de Rham

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, place, and the environmental humanities. She has a professional background in small scale agriculture, logistics, and horse care. 

Selected Presentations

"Remediating Water's Memory: Revisiting the Museum in Natalie Diaz's "exhibits from The American Water Museum." As part of the seminar "Ecologies of Grief: Water, Memory, and the Afterlives of Extraction," ACLA 2026, Montreal, Quebec, February 2026.

"Liquid Listening: Sound Cycles and Water Cycles in Erin Robinsong's Wet Dream." McGill English Department MA Research Colloquium, Montreal, Quebec, April 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 2024.

“Improvising Rivers: Transforming Space through Nonhuman Performance.” McGill University English Graduate Student Association Annual Conference 2024. Montreal, Quebec, April 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 2024.