Caroline Gelmi

Caroline Gelmi is an Associate Professor in the Department of English & Communication at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. She holds a PhD (2014) and MA (2007) from Tufts University and a BA (2006) from Boston College.

• Teaches ENL 258: Literary Studies and ENL 320: Major Author

Research Interests span American poetry and poetics, historical poetics, race and poetry, environmental poetics, and fan studies. Her work explores intersections of race, ecology, and poetic form in American literature from the 19th to 21st centuries.

Publications focus on topics including:

• Environmental and cultural legacies of California landscape poetry
• Primitivism in modernist poetry
• Racial dynamics in early 20th-century American poetry
• Visual representation in African American poetry

Contact: Liberal Arts 337 | cgelmi@umassd.edu | 508-910-6927