About


I’m a writer and Assistant Professor of American literature and cultural studies. My work focuses on the intersection of poetry and poetics, US minority literatures, new media, and theories of the public sphere.

My current book project, Containing Multitudes: The Social Logic of Lyric in the Mass Public Sphere, explores the ways minoritized poets revolutionized public discourse for the age of new mass media. The book is in contract with University of Iowa Press’s Contemporary North American Poetry Series︎︎︎. More information can be found here︎︎︎. Articles relating to this research have been published in Criticism, Textual Practice, and African American Review.

I received my PhD in English from New York University and my MFA in Creative Writing from CUNY Brooklyn College. My books include Someone Like You (Gauss PDF, 2017), Simple Location (above/ground, 2023), and Executive Orders (punctum books, 2025). My critical and creative writings have also appeared in Chicago Review, African American Review, Criticism, Textual PracticeBoston Review, Prelude, The Brooklyn Rail, The Distance Plan, Urban OmnibusSupermachine, and elsewhere. I’ve been a Writer-in-Residence at Millay Arts and Yaddo, and I serve as a editor and emeritus director of the multi-sited poetics working group and small press, the Organism for Poetic Research︎︎︎. Since 2012, I’ve taught courses on literature, critical theory, media studies, environmental justice, and creative writing on the campuses of Bard College, New York University, CUNY Brooklyn College, and CUNY Queens College.


Recent

“‘Answers in Progress’: Amiri Baraka’s Black Communications Archive and the Massification of Call and Response,” forthcoming in African American Review︎︎︎

Executive Orders (punctum books, 2025)︎︎︎

Of Lyric Proportions: Poetry and the Genres of Climate-Change Communications” at Textual Practice (peer-reviewed, 2025)︎︎︎

Lyric Noise: Lisa Robertson, Claudia Rankine, and the Phatic Subject of Poetry in the Mass Public Sphere” at Criticism (peer-reviewed, 2019)︎︎︎

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 Review︎︎︎

“Skunks Eat Leaves” at Dusie Tuesday Poem︎︎︎

The Apologies at East Quay Museum︎︎︎

Two poems at periodicities: a journal of poetry and poetics︎︎︎

“Peak Problems: NYC’s Carbon-Intensive Energy Infrastructure and the Environmental-Justice Urban Omnibus︎︎︎


Contact

Andrew Michael Gorin [he/him]
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

Lecturer (Assistant Professor), 2024-current

Visiting Assistant Professor, Bard College, 2023

Lecturer, Department of Media, Culture, and Communication, New York University, 2022-2023

Lecturer, Department of Environmental Studies, New York University, 2022-2023

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


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