Simone White

Assistant Professor of English

(she/her/hers)

Fisher-Bennett Hall 324

215-573-4577

Office Hours

spring 2020

Wednesday, 5-6:30pm or by appointment

Interests

20th-Century American Literature African American and Ethnic American Literatures African American Studies Critical Theory Poetry and Poetics

Publications

News & Events

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