Aaron Pinnix

Posted July 8, 2021: My presentation “Poisoned Islands in the Poetry of Haunani-Kay Trask and Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner” has been accepted for inclusion in the 2021 Association for the Study of … Continue reading >ASLE Presentation: Poisoned Islands in the Poetry of Haunani-Kay Trask and Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner

Posted June 23, 2021: My presentation “Surfacing Ecological Disaster: Poets for Living Waters and the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill” has been accepted for inclusion in the 2021 Association for the … Continue reading >ASLE Presentation: Surfacing Ecological Disaster

Posted March 4, 2021: I’m excited to be teaching an English elective titled “Interspecies Friendship” in the fall at Fordham University.  I’ve included a course description and brief introduction, below.  … Continue reading >Interspecies Friendship

Posted January 30, 2021: I’m happy to report that I was a guest today on the podcast “Unchefed. ” I spoke with hosts Brendan Costello and Matt Carden on the … Continue reading >Guest on the Podcast “Unchefed”

Posted January 2, 2021: I have posted below the abstract for an article I am currently working on for an edited collection, hopefully to be published as part of the … Continue reading >Surfacing Ecological Disaster: Poets for Living Waters and the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill

Posted October 22, 2020: In the spring I’ll be teaching two sections of my course “Briny Exchanges.” This course is made especially for advanced students of Fordham’s Gabelli School of … Continue reading >Briny Exchanges: Literature, Commerce, and the Sea

Posted August 22, 2020: I am very excited to be teaching two new courses at Fordham University this fall — the 3000 level course “Journeying and Storytelling” and the 1000 … Continue reading >Fall 2020 Courses: “Journeying and Storytelling” and “Food & Food Horror”

Posted July 9, 2020: I believe that now is a rewarding time to revisit and reconsider historical periods of social change. In addition to my previous post about “The Long … Continue reading >Caribbean Revolts and Revolutions

Posted June 24, 2020: Though it is often overshadowed by the earlier 1965 Watts riots and the 1968 riots, “The Long Hot Summer of 1967” has many similarities with today’s … Continue reading >The Long Hot Summer of 1967

Posted June 23, 2020: I am excited to be teaching the online course “Ocean Life,” a writing intensive literature course that explores how depictions of ocean life reveal surprising insights … Continue reading >Ocean Life, Online Summer Course

Posted May 1, 2020: Having successfully defended my dissertation, “Subaqueous Poetics: Oceanic Depths in Modern and Contemporary Poetry,” on April 22, I am happy to announce that I am now … Continue reading >PhD Completed

Posted February 10, 2020: My review of Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock’s The Mad Scientist’s Guide to Composition: A Somewhat Cheeky but Exceedingly Useful Introduction to Academic Writing (Broadview Press, 2019) has … Continue reading >My Book Review of “The Mad Scientist’s Guide to Composition” Has Been Published

Posted January 27, 2020: UPDATE: Unfortunately, this panel, and the conference more broadly, have been cancelled due to COVID.  Join us on Thursday April 16, 2020 from 3 to 4:30 … Continue reading >Come See My Presentation at 2020 Popular Culture Association National Conference

Posted November 26, 2019: My article “Sargassum in the Black Atlantic: Entanglement and the abyss in Bearden, Walcott, and Philip” has been awarded the 2019 Atlantic Studies Early Career Essay … Continue reading >“Sargassum in the Black Atlantic” Selected as 2019 Atlantic Studies Early Career Essay Award

Posted October 23, 2019: UPDATE: This panel, and the conference more broadly, have been cancelled due to COVID. I am excited to announce that my presentation has been accepted for … Continue reading >Lodge 49 and the Pleasures of Profitless Expenditure

Posted October 7, 2019: As co-editor of EP and Rhētorikós, I’m happy to announce that EP joins Rhētorikós in having a digital home!  EP and Rhētorikós publish the strongest examples of first-year … Continue reading >Websites Live for Fordham’s Two Journals of First-Year Writing

Posted August 15, 2019: “We interrupt to bring this to you…” My article “Night of the Living Dead Dissects the News: Race, the 1967 Riots, and ‘Dead Neighbors’” has been … Continue reading >My Article “Night of the Living Dead Dissects the News” Accepted for Publication

Posted June 15, 2019: My discussion of Muriel Rukeyser’s poem “Anemone” has been posted to the excellent website Muriel Rukeyser: A Living Archive. I discuss Rukeyser’s poem in relation to the … Continue reading >Learning to Breathe Underwater – The Tidalectics of Rukeyser’s “Anemone”

Posted June 12, 2019: My poem “Migrant: A Triptych,” which received the Suzanna Cohen Legacy Foundation Prize  has been published in vol. 1 of (un)common sense, with a special focus … Continue reading >“Migrant: A Triptych” Publication

Posted May 15, 2019: It is my great pleasure to announce that I have been selected as a Fordham Alumni Dissertation Fellow!  This prestigious fellowship means I will have a … Continue reading >Alumni Dissertation Fellowship