Dresher x CADVC: “Baltimore’s Chicory, the War on Poverty, and the Work of a Poem”

Featuring Keegan C. Finberg, with Tomashi Jackson on Zoom

The conversation is presented in connection with Pedagogy Study Hall, a research exhibition by Tomashi Jackson and Nia K. Evans that explores the structures sustaining our cultural and educational systems.

About Keegan C. Finberg

Keegan Cook Finberg is an assistant professor of English and affiliate faculty in Gender, Women's, and Sexuality Studies and Language, Literacy, and Culture at University of Maryland, Baltimore County where she teaches classes on modern and contemporary American literature, aesthetic and cultural theory, and poetry. Her first book of criticism, Poetry in General: How a Literary Form Became Public, about the transformation of the welfare state in the United States after 1960, is out now from Columbia University Press. Her next will be about changing state surveillance culture, poetic forms, and myths and ideas about the family. She is also the author of a poetry chapbook called The Thought of Preservation (2019) about gentrification in a Nashville neighborhood.