Libbie Rifkin

Bio

Libbie Rifkin has published numerous articles on gender, poetry, and the poetics of care along with a co-edited collection, Among Friends: Engendering the Social Site of Poetry (2013) and her monograph Career Moves: Olson, Creeley, Zukofsky, Berrigan, and the American Avant-Garde (2000). She is Teaching Professor in the Department of English and the Program in Disability Studies and serves as Special Advisor to the Vice President of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion for Disability.

Contributions

Re-setting the Table: Academic Ableism, Precarity, and Teaching Stein in the Pandemic

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It was September 24, 2020, and my “Gender and Care in Modern US Poetry” class had just had a tough conversation. For the first three weeks of the semester, the students had been remarkably engaged. But something shifted as we moved into week five. My carefully conceived arc from eugenic modernism to the “crip” poetics of Gertrude Stein’s Tender Buttons fell flat. I stopped class and asked what was going on. After a quiet minute, students started to talk about exhaustion, fear, and a shared sense...

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