Research/Areas of Interest
Contemporary poetry and poetics
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 recent 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 feminist and Indigenous struggles over social reproduction.
Dr De'Ath's essays on poetry, gender, and social reproduction are widely published. 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.
Dr De'Ath's essays on poetry, gender, and social reproduction are widely published. 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.