About
I’m a writer and Lecturer (Assistant Professor) of Anglophone literature and culture. My work focuses on the intersection of poetry and poetics, media studies, and theories of the public sphere. I hold a PhD in English and American Literature from NYU, and an MFA in Creative Writing (Poetry) from Brooklyn College of the City University of New York (CUNY). I am the author of Someone Like You (Gauss PDF, 2017), Simple Location (above/ground, 2023), and the creator and co-editor of the collaborative writing project Executive Orders (forthcoming in its comprehensive version from punctum books, 2024-25). My critical and creative writings have appeared or are forthcoming in journals and periodicals including Chicago Review, Criticism, Boston Review, Prelude, The Brooklyn Rail, The Distance Plan, Urban Omnibus, and Supermachine, among other publications, and I’ve been a Writer-in-Residence at Millay Arts and Yaddo. I also serve as an organizer and editor for the multi-sited poetics working group and small press, the Organism for Poetic Research︎︎︎, and as a contributing editor for the climate-crisis-and-culture platform, The Distance Plan︎︎︎. Since 2012, I’ve taught courses on literature, critical theory, environmental justice, and creative writing on the campuses of CUNY Brooklyn College, CUNY Queens College, and NYU.
My scholarship uses the tools of literary and cultural analysis to consider how the massification of Anglophone public spheres in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries altered the ways we conceptualize and engage in spaces of public representation. My current book project, Containing Multitudes: The Social Logic of Lyric in the Mass Public Sphere, argues that a group of minoritized and social-dissident poets, including Frank O’Hara, Amiri Baraka, Bernadette Mayer, Bruce Andrews, Lisa Robertson, and Claudia Rankine, played a decisive role in the articulation of a massified idea of subjectivity and collectivity in post-1945 North America. Containing Multitudes is under contract with the Contemporary North American Poetry Series at Iowa University Press︎︎︎. More information can be found here︎︎︎. An article based on my research, “Lyric Noise: Lisa Robertson, Claudia Rankine, and the Phatic Subject of Poetry in the Mass Public Sphere,” was published in the journal Criticism in March of 2019.
Recent
Simple Location (above/ground, 2023).︎︎︎
“The Green Shift” series on work and climate at Urban Omnibus ︎︎︎
A review of Wendy Xu’s The Past at Chicago Review︎︎︎
“Skunks Eat Leaves” at Dusie Tuesday Poem︎︎︎
The Apologies at East Quay Museum︎︎︎
Two poems at periodicities: a journal of poetry and poetics︎︎︎
“Peak Problems: NYC’s Carbon-Intensive Energy Infrastructure and the Environmental-Justice Communities Fighting to Dismantle It” at Urban Omnibus︎︎︎
“Lyric Noise: Lisa Robertson, Claudia Rankine, and the Phatic Subject of Poetry in the Mass Public Sphere” at Criticism︎︎︎
Contact
Andrew Michael Gorin [he/him]
Department of Media, Culture, and Communication; Department of Environmental Studies
New York University
amg737@nyu.edu
Education
PhD, English and American Literature, New York University, 2021
MFA, Creative Writing (Poetry), CUNY Brooklyn College, 2013
BA, College of Letters (literature, philosophy, history), Wesleyan University, 2009
Academic Appointments
Visiting Assistant Professor, Bard College, fall 2023-current
Lecturer, Department of Media, Culture, and Communication, New York University, 2022-current
Lecturer, Department of Environmental Studies, New York University, 2022-current
Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow, Department of English, New York University, 2021-2022
Graduate Instructor, Various Departments, New York University, 2016-2018
Lecturer, Department of English, CUNY Queens College, 2013-2014
Lecturer, Department of English, CUNY Brooklyn College, 2012-2014
Research and Teaching Interests
Twentieth- and twenty-first century American literature and culture, the public sphere, media studies, poetry & poetics, critical race theory, queer theory, affect, environmental humanities, creative writing (eco-poetics, documentary poetics, community- and research-based creative practices, multi-modal and new-media poetry)
Fellowships and Awards
Postdoctoral Teaching Fellowship, Department of English, New York University, 2021
Provost’s Global Research Initiative Fellowship, Office of the Provost, New York University, 2020
Dissertation Completion Fellowship, Department of English, New York University, 2019
Provost’s Global Research Initiative Fellowship, Office of the Provost, New York University, 2019
Brooklyn Arts Council Grant (for Organism for Poetic Research), Brooklyn Arts Council, 2019
Penfield Award, Department of English, New York University, 2018
M. L. Rosenthal Award, Department of English, New York University, 2018
Writer-in-Residence, Corporation of Yaddo, 2016
Writer-in-Residence, Millay Arts, 2015
MacCracken Fellowship, Department of English, New York University, 2014
Himan Brown Award, Department of English, CUNY Brooklyn College, 2013
Honors, College of Letters, Wesleyan University, 2009
Olin Fellowship, Department of English, Wesleyan University, 2008
Simple Location (above/ground, 2023).︎︎︎
“The Green Shift” series on work and climate at Urban Omnibus ︎︎︎
A review of Wendy Xu’s The Past at Chicago Review︎︎︎
“Skunks Eat Leaves” at Dusie Tuesday Poem︎︎︎
The Apologies at East Quay Museum︎︎︎
Two poems at periodicities: a journal of poetry and poetics︎︎︎
“Peak Problems: NYC’s Carbon-Intensive Energy Infrastructure and the Environmental-Justice Communities Fighting to Dismantle It” at Urban Omnibus︎︎︎
“Lyric Noise: Lisa Robertson, Claudia Rankine, and the Phatic Subject of Poetry in the Mass Public Sphere” at Criticism︎︎︎
Contact
Andrew Michael Gorin [he/him]
Department of Media, Culture, and Communication; Department of Environmental Studies
New York University
amg737@nyu.edu
Education
PhD, English and American Literature, New York University, 2021
MFA, Creative Writing (Poetry), CUNY Brooklyn College, 2013
BA, College of Letters (literature, philosophy, history), Wesleyan University, 2009
Academic Appointments
Visiting Assistant Professor, Bard College, fall 2023-current
Lecturer, Department of Media, Culture, and Communication, New York University, 2022-current
Lecturer, Department of Environmental Studies, New York University, 2022-current
Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow, Department of English, New York University, 2021-2022
Graduate Instructor, Various Departments, New York University, 2016-2018
Lecturer, Department of English, CUNY Queens College, 2013-2014
Lecturer, Department of English, CUNY Brooklyn College, 2012-2014
Research and Teaching Interests
Twentieth- and twenty-first century American literature and culture, the public sphere, media studies, poetry & poetics, critical race theory, queer theory, affect, environmental humanities, creative writing (eco-poetics, documentary poetics, community- and research-based creative practices, multi-modal and new-media poetry)
Fellowships and Awards
Postdoctoral Teaching Fellowship, Department of English, New York University, 2021
Provost’s Global Research Initiative Fellowship, Office of the Provost, New York University, 2020
Dissertation Completion Fellowship, Department of English, New York University, 2019
Provost’s Global Research Initiative Fellowship, Office of the Provost, New York University, 2019
Brooklyn Arts Council Grant (for Organism for Poetic Research), Brooklyn Arts Council, 2019
Penfield Award, Department of English, New York University, 2018
M. L. Rosenthal Award, Department of English, New York University, 2018
Writer-in-Residence, Corporation of Yaddo, 2016
Writer-in-Residence, Millay Arts, 2015
MacCracken Fellowship, Department of English, New York University, 2014
Himan Brown Award, Department of English, CUNY Brooklyn College, 2013
Honors, College of Letters, Wesleyan University, 2009
Olin Fellowship, Department of English, Wesleyan University, 2008
