Lauri Scheyer

TEACHING INTERESTS

At the undergraduate and graduate levels, Lauri Scheyer's courses include International Modernism, Modern Poetry, Contemporary Poetry, Poetry as Difference, The African American Poetic Tradition, African Diasporic Poetics of Space, The Bible as Literature, Writing Poetry, Writing Creative Nonfiction, Music and Literature, Black British Literature and Culture, Documentary Poetics, and Literary Magazine Editing and Publication.

RESEARCH

Lauri Scheyer's main interests in research and student supervision are lyric poetry and poetics, experimental and formally innovative literature, inter-media and cross-genre art, art as a social and political force, canon formation and marginalization, poetry of the African diaspora, ethnic poetry, creative writing and creative writing pedagogy, modern and contemporary literature and culture, and the intersection of creative and critical writing and thought.

Education

• MA, PhD University of Chicago
• Bachelor of Arts - BA Oberlin College
• Reed College

Companies

• Professor, International Summer School Renmin University of China (2019)
• Xiaoxiang Distinguished Professor Hunan Normal University 湖南师范大学 (2017)
• Professor Emeritus of English and Creative Writing California State University, Los Angeles (2004 — 2022)
• Director of Creative Writing and Senior Lecturer in English and Critical and Cultural Theory Cardiff University / Prifysgol Caerdydd (2001 — 2004)
• Founding Director of Creative Writing and Senior Lecturer in Literary Studies & Postcolonial Studies University of Bedfordshire (1999 — 2001)
• Assistant Professor of English Hampton University (1997 — 1999)