Scott Challener

A member of the inaugural UNCF/Mellon First Book Institute cohort and a 2023 Virginia Humanities HBCU Scholarship Fellow, Dr. Scott Challener is a poet and scholar of 20th- and 21st- century literatures of the Americas, including U.S., Latinx, and Latin American poetry and fiction; comparative modernism; and poetry and poetics. He earned an MFA in Poetry at Warren Wilson College and a Ph.D in Literatures in English at Rutgers University. He has taught courses in his areas of expertise at several institutions, including Boston University, Rutgers University, William & Mary, and Hampton University, where he now works as the Dean of the Graduate College.

 

His poems and essays have appeared in ASAP/J, American Book Review, Berkeley Poetry Review, Contemporary Literature, Gulf Coast, Langston Hughes Review, Lana Turner Journal, Los Angeles Review of Books, Mississippi Review, Omniverse, Poetry, Post45's Contemporaries series, The Nation, and elsewhere. His current book project, Translation Is Remediation: The Poetry of the Americas from the Mimeograph to the Platform, examines from a hemispheric perspective the various ways in which poetic translation practices and media intersect to internationalize post-WWII U.S. poetry.