Marcus Merritt
Adjunct Faculty
MA, University of South Dakota MFA, University of San Francisco BA, University of South Dakota
Professional Experience
His research has primarily focused on American Modernist poetry and the poetry and art of the New York School, along with critical theory and gender and sexuality studies. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of San Francisco.
Merritt has taught Creative Writing at Eastern Michigan University, and has taught Composition and Literature courses at College for Creative Studies, Wayne State University, the University of South Dakota, and the University of San Francisco.
Significant Publications, Presentations and Exhibitions
“’Noticing Everything that Your Life Does Include’: New York School Poetics Politics in Alice Notley’s Dr. Williams’ Heiresses.” American Literature Association, San Francisco, CA. May 2016.
“Growing into History: The Limits of Queer Representation in Steven Universe.” Queer Stuff: Student Symposium. Wayne State University. February 2016.
“‘I Like People and I Like People to Like Me’: Joe Brainard’s Anti-Entrepreneurial Poetics.” Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present. Greenville, NC. September 2015.
“The (In)Complete Poetic Work of Charlotte Wilder: Phases of the Moon and the Limits of Poetic Experimentation.” Second International Thornton Wilder Conference, Salve Regina University, Newport, RI. June 2015.
“‘Everyone Should Know EVERYTHING’: The Pedagogical Poetics of Williams’s Spring and All, Axiomatic Equality, and Rancière’s Politics.” Midwest MMLA, November, MI. December 2014.
“Outsider Cosmopolitanism: Henry Darger and John Ashbery’s Girls on the Run.” Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present, Detroit. October 2013.