Augusta Funk

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Office Hours
M 1-2pm
W 10-11am
Bio

Biography

PhD Candidate, UC Davis 2021 - Present

M.F.A in Poetry, University of Michigan, 2019

B.A. in English, Macalester College, 2014

Research Interests

Augusta Funk is a poet and scholar who works at the intersections of poetics, literary theory, and critical aesthetics. Her dissertation examines how late-twentieth century American poets theorized the role of writing within transnational circuits of racial capital and empire. These writers outline an emergent mode of writing in which technicity is extended into forms of collective memory and embodiment, providing alternative pathways forward. Augusta is also a research assistant for SpokenWeb, and helps students and scholars of poetry integrate sound-based methods into their work. 

Fields of Interest

Poetry and Poetics

Critical Race and Ethnicity Studies

Science and Technology Studies

Literary Theory 

Deconstruction

Psychoanalysis 

Presentations

  • "The Anti-Anti Lyric: Reading Abolition Beyond the Human in Gwendolyn Brooks's 'In the Mecca'" ASLE 2023 Biennial Conference, Portland OR July 2023
  • "Landscapes of Cohabitation in Hannah Weiner's Clairvoyant Journal" 2022 ASAP/13, Los Angeles CA September 2022. 

Publications

  • Poems in Witness, Poetry Northwest, Interim, Massachusetts Review, Colorado Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Fairy Tale Review, Four Way Review, Cream City Review, The Offing, and elsewhere.
  • Book reviews in Michigan Quarterly Review and Quarterly West.

Honors and Awards

  • Dean's Summer Fellowship, 2024
  • David Noel Miller Prize for Best Critical Essay, 2022

Teaching

  • ENL3, UC Davis Fall 2024 - Present
  • UWP1Y, UC Davis Fall 2023 - Spring 2024
  • UWP1, UC Davis Fall 2022 - Spring 2023
  • TA, UC Davis ENL180, ENL130, and ENL185C Fall 2021 - Spring 2022
  • ENL 225, University of Michigan Spring 2019
  • ENL125, University of Michigan Fall 2018
  • Peer Writing Tutor, Macalester College Fall 2011-Spring 2014