Seth Cosimini

Seth Cosimini is an Adjunct Assistant Professor of English at Vassar College, and has previously taught at the University at Buffalo, SUNY; the University of Nevada, Reno; and Columbia University. His research and teaching interests include the literature, culture, and thought of the African diaspora; nineteenth-century American literature and culture; and Cultural Studies. His current research reexamines nineteenth-century American romantic literature through the lens of post-1968 Black radical thought to understand the ways racial terror fundamentally structures the aesthetic, philosophical, and political form American romance in the nineteenth century and into its afterlives. He has also published a book of experimental Microsoft PowerPoint poetry with Hysterically Real and worked in poetry publishing.