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Carla Billitteri is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Maine, where she has served since 2008. She holds core faculty positions at the Center for Poetry and Poetics and the National Poetry Foundation, University of Maine, and is External Faculty in the Doctoral Program in Anglo-American Studies at the University of Catania, Italy. Her academic career includes roles from Lecturer (1999-2001) to Assistant Professor (2002-2008) before her current rank.
Education: Ph.D. in English from the University at Buffalo (2001), M.A. in English from State University at Buffalo (1995), and Laurea (magna cum laude) in Modern Languages and Literatures from the University of Catania, Italy (1989). She is a native Italian speaker and fluent in French.
Research Interests: Her work focuses on poetics, modern and contemporary literature, critical theory, and interdisciplinary studies. Key emphases include gender studies, postcolonial/decolonial theory, and critical race studies. Methodologically, she employs semiotics, phenomenology, and critical hermeneutics. She is currently researching the ethics of recognition in contemporary poetics.
Publications & Grants: Authored Language and the Renewal of Society in Walt Whitman, Laura (Riding) Jackson, and Charles Olson (2009) and co-translated Amnesia of the Movements of Clouds & Of Black and Red Verse (2014). Notable grants include the McGillicuddy Humanities Center Faculty Grant (2023) and Fulbright Specialist designation (2011-2016).
Awards: Includes the Fulbright Specialist appointment and multiple grants for research in critical theory and poetics.
Service & Leadership: Served on University committees (e.g., Faculty Senate, Research Council) and chaired conference panels on topics like postcolonial poetics and modernist studies. Organized major conferences, including the National Poetry Foundation’s “Poetry of the 1990s” (2017).
Labs/Teams: Active in interdisciplinary initiatives, including the Center for Poetry and Poetics, and collaborates on translation and performance projects. Hosted events with notable poets like Claudia Rankine and Myung Mi Kim.
