The following questions act as a basis for my creative work. Right now, this looks like a screenplay project in development. Though I am finishing up a collection of poetry informed by this research as well as travel in Thailand and Indonesia in 2023.
Current Research Questions
Poetry and Poetics
- How do poetic forms shape our understanding of time, self, and the body?
- What role does silence play in contemporary experimental poetics?
- How does poetry function as a site of ritual and invocation in different cultural traditions?
- In what ways can poetry serve as an ecological act or a response to environmental crisis?
Spiritual Literature
- How do mystical and spiritual texts use language to evoke ineffable experiences?
- What are the common narrative structures of spiritual transformation across religious traditions?
- How do modern poets engage with ancient spiritual texts to create new meaning?
- What role does gender play in the authorship and reception of spiritual literature?
Medieval Literature
- How do medieval texts conceptualize the relationship between the human and the nonhuman?
- In what ways did medieval women authors subvert or redefine dominant religious and philosophical discourses?
- How did medieval dream visions function as tools for personal and political revelation?
- What can medieval literature teach us about pre-modern conceptions of disability and illness?
Land Ethics & Environmental Studies
- How do different cultures conceptualize land as a legal, ethical, and spiritual entity?