Marlo Starr

Biography

• Creative writing (poetry, fiction, & creative nonfiction)
• Global and postcolonial studies
• Settler colonial studies
• Ecocriticism
• Gender and sexuality
• Militarism and nuclearism

Courses Taught

• English 261: Advanced Fiction & Poetry
• English 161: Introduction to Fiction & Poetry
• English 165: Editing a Literary Magazine

Selected Publications & Presentations

• "'Wave Song': Radiation Ecologies and Women's Transpacific Poetics." Women, Theory, Praxis, and Performativities: Transoceanic Entanglements. (Forthcoming in a special volume under contract with Liverpool UP.)
• "Little Magazines from across Island Networks." Asian Journal of African Studies 48 (2020),
  55-81. (Special issue from 2019 ACLA panel, "Texts Travelling Beyond the West.")
• "Medbh McGuckian's Aesthetics of Introversion." Textual Practice 34.4 (2020), 627-646
• "Paradise and Apocalypse: Critiques of Nuclear Imperialism in Kathy Jet il-Kijiner'sn Iep
  JÄltok." Commonwealth Essays and Studies 41.1 (2018), 119-132.
• "Beyond Machine Dreams: Zen, Cyber-, and Transnational Feminisms in Ruth Ozeki's A Tale
  for the Time Being." Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism 13.2
  (2016), 99-122.
  Essays
• "Ondobondo's Visual Publics: Small Print Culture in Papua New Guinea." Little Magazines,
  cluster of Post45: Contemporaries, edited by Nick Sturm, 2023,
  <https://post45.org/2023/06/ondobondos-visual-publics-small-print-culture-in-papua-new-
  guinea/>.
• "Re-Staging the American 'Freakshow' in Olio: Tyehimba Jess's Syncopated Sonnets." The
  American Sonnet: An Anthology of Poems and Essays, edited by Dora Malech and Laura T.
  Smith, University of Iowa Press, 2022, 304-312.
• "Slow Writing: Archival Research in the Digital Age" from "Dead Forms; or, A Defense of
  Good, Old-Fashioned Scholarly Writing." PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language
  Association of America, 133.1 (2018), 190-198

Awards & Honors

Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award for Poetry (2024)