Tented Life: A Refugee Home
This pop-up exhibit features the recreation of the exterior and interior of a typical refugee's home in Zaatari refugee camp, for audience members and visitors to walk through and experience.
Funded and invited by the British Academy, it will be on display at the British Academy Summer Showcase in London, UK, June 18-20, 2020.
This pop-up exhibit features the recreation of the exterior and interior of a typical refugee's home in Zaatari refugee camp, for audience members and visitors to walk through and experience.
Funded and invited by the British Academy, it will be on display at the British Academy Summer Showcase in London, UK, June 18-20, 2020.
We Are the New York School
This collection of interviews offers a space for the New York School poets to say who they are and what they meant and mean, on their own terms.
Under contract with Edinburgh University Press, for publication in 2021.
This collection of interviews offers a space for the New York School poets to say who they are and what they meant and mean, on their own terms.
Under contract with Edinburgh University Press, for publication in 2021.
When We Talk about Home: Testimony, Oral History, and Poetry of Migration
This book project chronicles narratives of displacement from Syrian and Palestinian refugees, and asylum seekers from Africa. It interweaves interviews conducted with Syrians living amongst the 80,000 refugees in Zaatari Refugee Camp of Jordan, 60,000 in Azraq Refugee Camp, and the over 1.1 million in other camps and make-shift communities throughout Jordan as “urban refugees,” with personal accounts from other displaced Levantine exiles and expats, and from asylum seekers displaced throughout Cyprus. It asks both how these displaced people make homes in temporary spaces, and how the shapes of their responses to questions regarding home convey the ache of displacement.
This work ultimately aims to faciliate understanding between worlds of the developed and the developing; the settled and the rootless, revealing the universal in definitions of home. Interpreting oral histories as literary and cultural contributions to ongoing studies of space/place, kinship, care, ethics, and home, this work of creative nonfiction speaks to both academic and popular audiences.
This work ultimately aims to faciliate understanding between worlds of the developed and the developing; the settled and the rootless, revealing the universal in definitions of home. Interpreting oral histories as literary and cultural contributions to ongoing studies of space/place, kinship, care, ethics, and home, this work of creative nonfiction speaks to both academic and popular audiences.
Making Home Away: A digital archive of homes, lost and found by Syrian Refugees
This archive is funded by the British Academy. It will be launched in January 2020. www.makinghomeaway.com
There will also be a one-day symposium run in conjunction with this website's work, on June 12, 2020. For more information, please write to makinghomeaway@gmail.com
There will also be a one-day symposium run in conjunction with this website's work, on June 12, 2020. For more information, please write to makinghomeaway@gmail.com
Stanza
This Digital Humanities project offers a digital archive devoted to presenting its general user with a sense of the literal density of urban places. Stanza is a user-friendly app ultimately aiming to engage the public in a sense of the literariness of places. Stanza (Italian, after all, for “the places one stands in”) integrates geo-tagged information with GPS technology to smoothly present its pedestrian with a sense of the poetry of their environment. In 2017, this project was generously awarded a seed grant by Florida Atlantic University's South Florida Cultures Platform.
Stanza will be available for free download in 2020.
Stanza will be available for free download in 2020.