Scarlett Higgins

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Associate Professor
Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies Director

Email: shiggins@unm.edu
Phone: 505 277-6347
Office: Humanities 315
Personal Website

Education:

2005 from the University of Chicago in English Language and Literature

Research Statement:

My research interests have focused on experimental literature and film and how a wide variety of artists have used juxtapositional art practices as means toward political resistance. This is the topic of my 2018 book, Collage and Literature: the Persistence of Vision (Routledge).

The current focus of my research is on the power of rationality (data, metrics, analytics) in our contemporary culture, moving from the immediate post-World War II period forward. One section of this project is published in Textual Practice as the article “Purity of Essence in the Cold War: Dr. Strangelove, Paranoia, and Bodily Boundaries.” (2018, 32 (5)); another section of this ongoing project can be seen in my chapter on Harryette Mullen’s poetry in the volume Evaluations of U. S. Poetry since 1950 (2021: University of New Mexico Press).

Recent/Select Publications:

She has published articles in The Langston Hughes Review, The Review of Contemporary Fiction, and Arizona Quarterly.

A chapter in the edited volume Ablaze with Lyric Fire (Ashgate) was published in 2014 and one in The Critical Experience (Kendall/Hunt) is forthcoming.

She is currently working on a manuscript entitled The Persistence of Vision: Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Collage.

Courses:

Scarlett Higgins teaches classes in contemporary American literature and film, including Postmodernism, Contemporary Literature, The Culture of the Cold War, Avant Garde in America, Contemporary Literature and Gender, and Introduction to Film Analysis.