EDUCATION

PhD English Literature, U.C. Davis. 2015-present.

M.F.A. Poetry, Colorado State University.

B.A. English Literature (summa cum laude with major honors), Westmont College. 

RESEARCH INTERESTS

ecopoetics, 20th-21st. c poetry, material ecocriticism, cold war, nuclear criticism

PUBLICATIONS

Critical Work

“Atomic Afrofuturism and Amiri Baraka’s Compulsive Futures.” Oxford Literary Review, 41.1 (July 2019) for special issue, “EXT: Writing Extinction”.

"Addressing the Atomic Specter: Ginsberg’s ‘Plutonian Ode’ and America’s Nuclear Unconscious.” Symplokê (Dec. 2019).

“The Beast That Therefore I Am,” Jacket 2 (October 2018).

Poetry

Fossils in the Making (Black Ocean, 2019). 

Diurne (Tupelo Press, 2019). 

Recent poems in Colorado Review, Boston Review, Puerto Del Sol, Zone 3, Ninth Letter, Cincinnati Review,  & others. More information at: kristingeorgebagdanov.com