Rosannah Gosser

Rosannah Gosser is a PhD graduate student at the University of California, Davis. Her research interests include literatures that reflect on and engage with the earth through a decolonial abolition feminist lens. She has written on restfulness as a site of repair and empowerment, Native ecopoetics in the work of Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner, and gentrification in the San Francisco Bay Area. 

Presentations

“Meeting Nature: Econarration in the Poetry of Mary Oliver,” Bodies and Boundaries in Irish and American Literature. School of English, Dublin City University, Ireland, September 2023.

“Allegories of In/security in Kathy Jetn̄il-Kijiner’s Iep Jāltok: Poems from a Marshallese Daughter”, Annual Conference for the Irish Association of American Studies. University of Limerick, Ireland, April 2023. 

“The disrepair of urban renewal: politics of place in Rebecca Solnit and Susan Schwartzenberg’s Hollow City”, Postgraduate Symposium for the Irish Association of American Studies. Maynooth University, Ireland, November 2022. 

“The Collective ‘We’ through the Post-Kyriarchy: bell hooks and precarious solidarities”, Research Symposium for the MA English: Literatures of Engagement programme. Maynooth University, Ireland, June 2022.