Lisa Hollenbach
Associate Professor
PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Areas of Interest & Expertise
Post-1900 American Literature
Poetry and Poetics
Sound Studies
Radio Studies
Recent Courses Taught
ENGL 6220: Documentary Poetics
ENGL 5480 Sounding American Poetry
ENGL 4320: Listening to Contemporary Poetry
ENGL 4310 The 1920s in American Literature
ENGL 4220: Modern American Poetry: The Long Poem
ENGL 3343: Reading Poetry
ENGL 2883: Survey of American Literature II
Selected Publications
Poetry FM: American Poetry and Radio Counterculture, Contemporary North American Poetry Series (University of Iowa Press, 2023).
"‘Jumpin’ with Symphony Sid’: Post-1945 American Literature and Radio.” The Oxford Handbook of Twentieth-Century American Literature, edited by Leslie Bow and Russ Castronovo (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022), 135–152.
“Jaime de Angulo’sIndian Talesand KPFA-FM.”Jaime de Angulo, Gui Mayo, and West Coast Modernism, edited by Edgar Garcia, special issue ofChicago Review, vol. 64, no. 1/2/3, Summer 2021, pp. 86–94.
“Broadcasting ‘Howl.’”Modernism/modernity Print Plus,July 12, 2018.
"Sono-Montage: Langston Hughes and Tony Schwartz Listen to Postwar New York."American Literature 87.2 (June 2015): 275-302.
"Phonography, Race Records, and the Blues Poetry of Langston Hughes."A Companion to the Harlem Renaissance, ed. Cherene Sherrard-Johnson (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2015), 301-316.
Selected Conference Presentations
“Amiri Baraka on the Radio.” Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture since 1900. Louisville, KY, February 23-26, 2022.
“Broadcasting Multicultural Literature and ‘Third World’ Consciousness on KPFA-Berkeley.” American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) Annual Meeting. Los Angeles, California, March 29–April 1, 2018.
“Phonotext and/as Paratext.” Modern Language Association (MLA) Annual Convention. New York, New York, January 4–7, 2018.
"Pacifica Radio and the Broadcasting of the San Francisco Renaissance." Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture since 1900. Louisville, KY, February 2017.
"Langston Hughes, Folkways Records, and the Voice of Authentic Folk." MLA Annual Convention. Philadelphia, PA, January 2017.
"Susan Howe and the Poetics of Feminist Broadcasting on Pacifica Radio." American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, March 2016.