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Simone White is Associate Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania and Associate Faculty Director of the Kelly Writers House. Her work integrates creative writing, critical theory, and African American studies, producing both scholarly and poetic interventions into twentieth- and twenty-first-century American literature.
Education: Details of degrees not supplied in the source texts.
Research & Creative Interests: White’s scholarship and poetry orbit five major areas: twentieth-century American literature, African American and ethnic American literatures, African American studies, critical theory, and poetry/poetics. Her writing probes black femininity, diasporic dispersal, and the politics of lyric form, often braiding essayistic reflection with experimental poetics.
Publications trajectory: Across six books—Dolly (2008), House of Envy of All the World (2010), Unrest (2013), Of Being Dispersed (2016), Dear Angel of Death (2018), and the forthcoming or, on being the other woman—White moves from abecedarian serial poems to hybrid essay-collections, consistently interrogating black life under capitalism, the limits of genre, and the ethics of reading and writing.
Awards & Honors:
- Whiting Award for Poetry, 2017
- Creative Capital Award for Literature, 2021
Advising & Grants: She chaired the doctoral dissertation “Black Affect and Ludonarrative Dissonance in the Present” (2024) and has received institutional support including the Creative Capital grant for her book-in-progress.
Affiliated programs: Beyond the English Department, White helps steer the Kelly Writers House, curating readings, seminars, and interdisciplinary conversations that link Penn to national poetry communities.
