Jordan Savage

Dr Jordan Savage is a Lecturer in United States Literature at the Department of Literature Film and Theatre Studies, University of Essex, where he has taught since 2015. He earned his PhD in U.S. poetry from the same university, supervised by Professor Richard Gray and Professor Peter Hulme, preceded by an MA in Wild Writing: Literature and Environmental Science (2011) and a BA in English from the University of Cambridge (2008).

• Avant-garde U.S. poetry
• Literatures of the American South-West
• Alternative knowledges
• Feminist reading and writing practices
• Environmental criticism

His current research project, Locating Possibility: Utopia and Transformation in Modern American Place-Poetics, traces anti-colonial poetic movements through 20th-century American poets including Hart Crane, Diane di Prima, and Juliana Spahr. Research outputs connect genderqueer narratives, environmental critique, and intersectional Marxist-Feminist frameworks across contemporary poetry and Western literature studies.

Recent publications examine topics ranging from Pocahontas mythologies to anti-confessional life writing. He has received funding for the Hungry Human Project through the School of Advanced Study (University of London) and the University of Essex's QR Impact Fund. A prolific supervisor, he currently mentors three PhD candidates in creative writing while having previously guided successful completions in film studies, literature, and creative writing.