Research/Areas of Interest
Contemporary poetry and poetics; feminist and queer studies; studies of race and racialization; Indigenous studies; the critique of political economy; literary theory; aesthetic theory.
Education
- Doctor of Philosophy, Simon Fraser University, CAN, 2017
- BA, University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom, 2007
- MA, University College London, London, United Kingdom, 2009
Biography
Amy De'Ath's forthcoming book, Behind Our Backs: Feminized Poetry and Capitalist Abstraction (Stanford UP, 2026) develops a new type of feminist literary criticism attuned to the way our lives are shaped by capital's impersonal compulsions – a gendering process felt and critiqued in the formal experiments of trans, queer, Indigenous, and diasporic verse. A second book-in-progress, Value and Difference, addresses the relationship between poststructuralist and value-critical accounts of difference in contemporary literature and culture, reading diasporic and feminized poetry alongside media and visual art emerging from (trans)feminist and Indigenous struggles over social reproduction.
Her essays are published in After Marx: Literature, Theory, and Value in the Twenty-First Century (Cambridge UP), Paideuma: Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics, and Women: A Cultural Review, among others. Forthcoming projects include an edited special issue, "Sexual Difference and Trans Moral Panics," for Mediations: Journal of the Marxist Literary Group, and an article on lyric, black radicalism, and dialectics for differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies.
She is also the author of several poetry collections, most recently Not A Force of Nature (Futurepoem, 2024). Before joining the Department of English at Tufts, she taught at King's College London.
Her essays are published in After Marx: Literature, Theory, and Value in the Twenty-First Century (Cambridge UP), Paideuma: Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics, and Women: A Cultural Review, among others. Forthcoming projects include an edited special issue, "Sexual Difference and Trans Moral Panics," for Mediations: Journal of the Marxist Literary Group, and an article on lyric, black radicalism, and dialectics for differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies.
She is also the author of several poetry collections, most recently Not A Force of Nature (Futurepoem, 2024). Before joining the Department of English at Tufts, she taught at King's College London.