Lisa Samuels
In 2019, Prof. Lisa Samuels joined the Centre for Literary and Intermedial Crossings for our annual CLIC-day. She spoke on ‘Transplace Poetics’ in conversation with Dr. Hannah Van Hove (VUB).
On November 18th 2019, Prof. Samuels held a joint poetry performance with Jennifer K. Dick, the American post-language poet. After performing their newest poems, they discussed processes of literary experiment and alternative modes of performance.
Additionally, Prof. Samuels contributed to students’ discussions during the master’s courses ‘Postcolonial literature in English’, ‘Advanced History of Literature in English: Prose’ and the bachelor’s course ‘Studies of Literature in English’.
Bio
Lisa Samuels is a transnational poet who also works with sound, film, and art installations. She is the author of many books of poetry, memoir, and prose, recently Symphony for Human Transport (a Guardian top ten poetry book of 2017), Foreign Native (2018), and The Long White Cloud of Unknowing (2019). She also publishes essays in creative theory and edited work in poetics. A citizen of Aotearoa/New Zealand, where she is Professor of English and Drama at the University of Auckland, Lisa was living in Belgium during part of her current sabbatical.
