Lizzy LeRud is a scholar of multiethnic American literature, especially poetry and poetics. As Associate Professor of English at Minot State University, she teaches literature courses and first-year writing. Her essays have appeared in academic journals such as Genre, Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature, and Nineteenth-Century Prose, and she also writes for the The Poetry Foundation website. She is at work on a monograph, entitled Against Prose: American Poetry After the Novel.
She is also the co-editor of Unsettling Poetry Pedagogy: A Handbook for Anti-Oppressive Teaching (under advance contract with SUNY Press), which has been featured in panels at the Modern Language Association, American Comparative Literature Association, and Modernist Studies Association.
In addition, she co-authored Jazz Sonnets: A Guide to the American Sonnets of Wanda Coleman, an essential guidebook on the innovative jazz poetics and antiracist politics of Coleman's groundbreaking modern sonnet sequence. Read Lizzy's essay about Coleman on the Poetry Foundation web site, "Heart First Into This Ruin."
Before arriving at Minot State, LeRud held the NEH Postdoctoral Fellowship in Poetics at the Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry, Emory University (2018-2019). She was also a Marion L. Brittain Postdoctoral Fellowship at Georgia Tech in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication (2019-2022). While at Georgia Tech, she served as Assistant Director of First Year Semester Abroad, a study-abroad program designed especially for incoming students. She completed her Ph.D in English at the University of Oregon in 2017.
She is also the co-editor of Unsettling Poetry Pedagogy: A Handbook for Anti-Oppressive Teaching (under advance contract with SUNY Press), which has been featured in panels at the Modern Language Association, American Comparative Literature Association, and Modernist Studies Association.
In addition, she co-authored Jazz Sonnets: A Guide to the American Sonnets of Wanda Coleman, an essential guidebook on the innovative jazz poetics and antiracist politics of Coleman's groundbreaking modern sonnet sequence. Read Lizzy's essay about Coleman on the Poetry Foundation web site, "Heart First Into This Ruin."
Before arriving at Minot State, LeRud held the NEH Postdoctoral Fellowship in Poetics at the Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry, Emory University (2018-2019). She was also a Marion L. Brittain Postdoctoral Fellowship at Georgia Tech in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication (2019-2022). While at Georgia Tech, she served as Assistant Director of First Year Semester Abroad, a study-abroad program designed especially for incoming students. She completed her Ph.D in English at the University of Oregon in 2017.
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"Against Prose: Poetry's Defense, Definition, and Dichotomization," available for a short time at the following link:
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"Against Prose: Poetry's Defense, Definition, and Dichotomization," available for a short time at the following link:
https://read.dukeupress.edu/genre/article/56/2/179/381062/Against-Prose-Poetry-s-Defense-Definition-and?guestAccessKey=5a984190-0b85-495a-94c0-6522e5639107
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