Department of English
Chi Le
B.A. Philosophy and Allied Fields, University of Chicago. , M.F.A. Poetry, Cornell University.
Research Interests
Poetry and Poetics, Postcolonial and the Global South, 20th and 21st Century, Race and Ethnicity Studies , Critical Theory and Political Theory, Philosophy and Literature
Biography
My research is in global Anglophone literature, with a focus on matters of race, capital, and coloniality in poetry across a range of forms and regions. I’m interested in how to do things with words, as well as the epistemological and ontological claims of language, in world-historical contexts from the 20th century onward.
Before Brown, I studied poetry and worked as a university lecturer.