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Daniela Kukrechtová

Daniela Kukrechtova

Visiting Assistant Professor

Ph.D. Brandeis University

Fields: American poetry after 1850; African American literature; urban experience in modern American poetry; urban ecology; multicultural literature; global women writers; the literature of exile

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Contact Information

Email: dkukrechtova@holycross.edu
Office: Fenwick 230
Office Hours: MWF 11-11:50 (in person); Th 10-11am (zoom) & by appt.

Biography

I am a Czech/US binational scholar, poet, and translator. My scholarly work has been published in African American Review, the CEA Critic and Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal. My poetry and translations have appeared in The Sunlight Press, Circumference: Poetry in Translation, and Asymptote’s Translation Tuesdays blog and my nonfiction in Persephone’s Daughters, Indiana Review and Nowhere Magazine.

My book manuscript, entitled Unplanned Cities in Modern American Poetry: Lyrical Challenges to Utopianism is currently under review at Bloomsbury Publishing, Inc.

Courses Taught

  • Modern Poetry and After
  • International Women Writers
  • Place, Displacement, and Memory in Exile Literature
  • Urban Experience in Modern American Literature
  • Literature and Culture of the Americas
  • American Women Writers
  • American Poets Post WWII
  • Modern and Contemporary Poetry in Translation
  • Multicultural Literatures