Holly Melgard’s Profile
Poetics, Poetry and the contemporary markings of our textual condition ;)
Dr. Holly Melgard has taught college English courses since 2008 and recently completed her Ph.D. at SUNY Buffalo’s Poetics Program, where she wrote her dissertation titled, “Poetics of Ubiquitization: Textual Conditions of and for the Ubiquitous Computing Age”. Her research interests are located at the nexus between 20th and 21st century experimental poetry, philosophy, and media studies, including computing, architecture and information systems theory. She is a book designer and founding co-editor of Troll Thread Press (http://trollthread.tumblr.com/), as well as a former editor of P-Queue literary journal and previous a co-curator of the Segue Reading Series. She is the author of the Poems for Baby trilogy (2011), The Making of The Americans (2012), Black Friday (2012), Reimbursement (2013), and Cats Can’t Taste Sugar (2014), Liquidation (2017) and Cat Call (2017) among other books of poetry. She currently teaches writing and literature at City Tech and lives in Brooklyn.
My Courses
ENG1101 Composition 1, Sections D357 + D396, Fall 2018
English 1101: Composition I, Section D357 + D396, Fall 2018, Instructed by Holly Melgard
English 1101: Composition I, Sections D427 + E011, Fall 2015, Instructed by Holly Melgard
ENG1121 Composition II, Section E120 , Fall 2019
English 1121: Composition II, Sections E120, Fall 2019, Instructed by Holly Melgard
ENG1101 Composition 1, Section D374, Fall 2019
English 1101: Composition I, Section C374 and D374, Fall 2019, Instructed by Holly Melgard
ENG2002-D960 Intro to Lit: Drama, Summer 2019
Analysis and critical understanding of selected plays.
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