Jessikah Díaz
Romantic/18th-Century Literature; Poetry & Poetics; Environmental Studies; Political Economy; Aesthetics
The Poetics of Exhaustion, 1750-1830
Advisors:
Jonathan Kramnick, Greta LaFleur, Anahid Nersessian
Publications:
Díaz, Jessikah. “Light Labor in the Eighteenth Century Georgic,” New Literary History, 56.4, forthcoming.
Díaz, Jessikah and Daniel Swain. “On Poetry and the Crowd: Lyric and Locodescription,” Textual Practice, forthcoming.
Díaz, Jessikah. “Waking Mexico: Extraction’s Picturesque Views,” Romanticism and the Industrial Gaze, edited by Ian Haywood and Silvia Riccardi, forthcoming.
Díaz, Jessikah. “The All Play No Fun Economy,” The Yale Review, 2022.
Undergraduate Courses:
ENGL 1014: Creatives & the Climate Crisis
A composition course exploring how art and literature uniquely communicate the climate crisis.
ENGL 1015: The Aesthetics of Exhaustion
A literary seminar on human and natural resource extraction in eighteenth-century poetry and painting.
ENGL 1014: On Being Trendy
A composition course analyzing contemporary American aesthetics through political economy.