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Simone White

Stephen M. Gorn Family Assistant Professor of English

(she/her/hers)

Fisher-Bennett Hall 336
215-746-3766

Office Hours

fall 2021

On Leave

Publications

News & Events

2020/12/21
Professor Simone White named Stephen M. Gorn Family Assistant Professor of English
2020/12/10
Two Penn English faculty receive Creative Capital Award for writing projects
2020/12/09
Professor Simone White receives 2021 Creative Capital Award for her forthcoming book "or, on being the other woman"
2020/11/23
Faculty Research Colloquium: Simone White & Tina Campt
2020/11/17
Breaking Through: Taylor Johnson
2020/11/11
Scholar–artists and the university: Herman Beavers and Simone White in conversation with Al Filreis and Penn colleagues
2020/07/24
PoemTalk #150 released: "MJ Fan Letter" & "RSVP" by Terrance Hayes
2019/10/19
The Legacy of 1619 Conference - Saturday
2019/09/12
Collation and Department Party 2019
2019/06/05
Maya Arthur (C'18) Named KWH Post-Baccalaureate Fellow
2019/04/09
KWH: Breaking Through: A. H. Jerriod Avant and Adjua Gargi Nzinga Greaves
2019/03/27
Whitman at 200 Symposium featured in Penn Today
2019/02/05
KWH: Five Up on Walt
2018/11/28
KWH: A Poetry Reading by Laura Henriksen and Benjamin Krusling
2018/01/18
KWH: Poetry Reading by Simone White
2017/07/16
Simone White featured in new PoemTalk discussing Claudia Rankine's "Don't Let Me Be Lonely"
2016/08/10
Simone White's new book 'Of Being Dispersed' featured in new PoemTalk
2016/06/14
Simone White featured in new PoemTalk on Ed Dorn's "The Sundering of U.P. Tracks"

Courses Taught

fall 2020

ENGL 101.401 W.E.B. Du Bois  
ENGL 573.301 Topics in Criticism and Theory  

spring 2020

ENGL 118.301 Advanced Poetry Writing Workshop  
ENGL 282.401 (T) rap Music  

fall 2019

ENGL 090.402 21st-Century Women Poets  
ENGL 573.301 Next Wave Materialism: SURROUND  

spring 2019

ENGL 088.001 New and All: Post-1945 US Poetry Anthologies  
ENGL 281.401 Negro Apocalypse: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Poetics of Heartbreak  

fall 2018

ENGL 113.301 Poetry Writing Workshop  
ENGL 573.301 Topics in Criticism and Theory: Next Wave Materialisms