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Simone White

Associate Professor of English, Associate Faculty Director of the Kelly Writers House

(she/her/hers)

Fisher-Bennett Hall 336

Office Hours

spring 2025

On Leave

Publications

News & Events

2024/10/10
Professor Simone White Named Associate Faculty Director of the Kelly Writers House
2024/04/02
A Conversation with Harryette Mullen
2024/04/01
A reading by Harryette Mullen
2023/12/21
Wayne Koestenbaum, Simone White, and Henry Steinberg joined Al Filreis for PoemTalk #191
2023/02/20
A Reading and Conversation with Joan Retallack
2022/12/22
Professor Simone White Featured in LitHub
2022/10/11
Simone White and Taije Silverman on Academy of American Poets Featured Fall Books List
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"

Doctoral Dissertations Chaired

2024

Joseph Earl Thomas "Black Affect and Ludonarrative Dissonance in the Present"

Courses Taught

fall 2025

ENGL 0760.301 Art[ists and] Writing  
ENGL 3103.301 Leslie Scalapino: Workshop as Marvel  

fall 2024

ENGL 2250.401 W.E.B. Du Bois  
ENGL 6000.301 Proseminar  

spring 2024

ENGL 0783.401 Writing about Music  
ENGL 2092.401 Kelly Writers House Fellows Seminar  

fall 2023

ENGL 1093.301 Contemporary US Poetry and Experimental Writing  
ENGL 3111.301 Experimental Writing: Contemporary Black Feminism canceled  
ENGL 5700.401 World/Order: Black World(s)  

spring 2023

ENGL 2092.401 The Kelly Writers House Fellows Seminar  
ENGL 2250.401 Waywardness and Despair: Saidiya Hartman and Gayl Jones canceled  

fall 2022

ENGL 1310.401 21st-Century Women Poets: "The Poethical Wager"  
ENGL 5735.401 Topics in Criticism: What is Poetics?  

spring 2022

ENGL 088.001 New and All: Post-1945 US Poetry Anthologies  
ENGL 111.301 Experimental Writing  

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