Allison Pitinii Davis

Allison Pitinii Davis will join the Ohio State University as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Poetry in Fall 2025. She holds a PhD in English and Creative Writing from the University of Tennessee (2021) and specializes in Multigenre and Hybrid Creative Writing, Working-Class Literature, Diasporic Literature, and Rust Belt Poetics.

• Education
  • PhD, English and Creative Writing, University of Tennessee, 2021

Her research explores Jewish-American identity, post-industrial collapse, and hybrid form narratives. She has produced a body of work examining the intersection of family business, Midwestern urban decay, and experimental poetics, with a forthcoming novella Business (2025) expanding her fictional exploration of diasporic economic experiences.

Notable scientific awards include:

• National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
• Wallace Stegner Fellowship, Stanford University
• Wick Poetry Chapbook Prize
• National Jewish Book Award Finalist
• Hadassah-Brandeis Institute Fellowship

Her articles span topics including comparative urban poetics, post-industrial trauma, and experimental literary forms. She has contributed to journals such as The Missouri Review, Studies in American Jewish Literature, and The Oxford American.