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Nathan Suhr-Sytsma is an Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of English at Emory University. He holds affiliations with the Institute of African Studies, Global & Postcolonial Studies, and Irish Studies programs. His research focuses on 20th/21st-century poetry, African and Irish literary traditions, and the environmental humanities. Suhr-Sytsma’s first book, Poetry, Print, and the Making of Postcolonial Literature (2017), examines mid-20th-century anglophone poet networks across Ireland, Nigeria, and the Caribbean. His second book project, African Poetry Worlds in the Twenty-First Century (under contract with OUP), explores contemporary African poetry’s global engagements.
Education: B.A., Calvin College; Ph.D., Yale University. His scholarship bridges postcolonial studies, modernist aesthetics, and decolonial approaches to poetics. Recent work addresses interreligious themes in Nigerian fiction, digital African literary magazines, and planetary crises in Irish poetry. He co-edited special issues on religion in African writing (Research in African Literatures, 2017) and global south poetics (Interventions, 2024).
Teaching emphasizes environmental humanities and global poetry. Office hours are held in-person or online weekly. For graduate inquiries, direct to english.phd@emory.edu.
