I write on 20th-century American and British poetry, trauma, and sound media infrastructure
My first monograph, Aired Trauma: The Sound Mediation of Confessional Poetry, will examine how confessional poets like Robert Lowell, Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes, and Kamau Brathwaite sounded out, recorded, and aired trauma in auto-lyric form, affording reading and listening audiences unprecedented access to the interior of the traumatic experience, and eliciting new ways of tuning in to the innerworkings of the self and the unconscious in psychoanalysis and beyond. Excerpts have appeared in journals like Poetics Today, Journal of Literature and Trauma Studies, and Modernism/modernity:
Jeremy Lowenthal, Ph.D. 