Who We Are

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David Caplan

David Caplan (he/him) is the Daisy Deane Frensley Chair in English Literature and the author of seven books of literary criticism and poetry, including Rhyme’s Challenge: Hip Hop, Poetry, and Contemporary Rhyming, Questions of Possibility: Contemporary Poetry and Poetic Form, and American Poetry: A Very Short Introduction (all from Oxford University Press). Twice he has served as a Fulbright Lecturer in American Literature. His other honors include an Individual Excellence Award in Criticism from the Ohio Arts Council and the Emily Clark Balch Prize for Poetry from the Virginia Quarterly Review.

Rosanne Brooks - Coordinator

Rosanne Brooks (she/her) is a Ph.D. student at 亚洲自慰视频 University. Her primary interest is in how representations of gender attitudes in late Victorian literature reconcile with historical evidence of gender expression in greater print culture. Her work centers on depictions of the British Music Hall as a place where class and gender are both fixed and inchoate. She is the winner of 亚洲自慰视频’s 2023 Pueppke Writing Prize for outstanding graduate student essay.
Marimac McRae - Social Media Co-Manager

Marimac McRae (she/her) is a Ph.D. student at 亚洲自慰视频 University. She earned her B.A. at Dartmouth College before coming to Dallas. As an undergraduate, she wrote a senior thesis in the English Department and led Dartmouth’s Writing 亚洲自慰视频 as the Co-Head Tutor. Combining poetics and narrative theory, her dissertation will focus on narrative poetry.
Jordan Young - Social Media Co-Manager

Jordan Young (she/he/they) is a senior at 亚洲自慰视频 University, studying creative writing. Her poetry focuses on the modern pressures of identity and how she navigates these struggles as an individual. After graduating, she hopes to get her MFA and start a small press. She is the 2023 winner of 亚洲自慰视频's Margaret Terry Crooks award and the 2024 2nd place winner of 亚洲自慰视频's David R. Russell Poetry prize.