EDUCATION

Rutgers University

PhD

PhD, Graduate Program of Literatures in English, Rutgers University, 2012

Concentrations: 20th Century American Literature, Poetry and the Visual Arts, Feminist Poetics

MA, Literatures in English, Rutgers University, 2008

University of Maryland, College Park

MFA

MFA, Creative Writing: Poetry

University of Maryland, College Park, 2004

Tufts University

BA

BA, English, Spanish, and Psychology, cum laude

Tufts University, Medford, MA, 2001

EXPERIENCE

Editorial Director

2022-Present

Meadows Museum, SMU

Editor

2016-2022

President's Commission on the Needs of Persons with Disabilities

Co-founder and Poetry Mentor, Meadows Museum Poets Laureate Program

University of North Texas

Lecturer

Continuing Lecturer, Department of English, 2014–2016

Affiliated Faculty, Women and Gender Studies Program, 2016

Writing Program Advisory Board Member, Department of English, 2015–2016

Writing Consultant, College of Visual Art and Design, 2016–2019

Emory University

Postdoctoral Fellow

National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), Postdoctoral Fellow in Poetics, Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry

Emory University, 2013–2014

SELECTED

SCHOLARSHIP

For Anne’s poetry and other creative books and publications, click here.

• Anne Keefe, “The Affective Encounter.” Editor’s introduction to “Politics of the Sensing Subject: Gender, Perception, Art,” Comparative Perspectives Symposium. Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 40.2 (2015): 277–80. 

• Anne Keefe, Serial Poetics and the Phenomenology of Memory in the Work of Sharon Olds.” Contemporary Women’s Writing 9.2 (2015): 257–76.

• Anne Keefe, “An Organism of Words: Ekphrastic Poetry and the Pedagogy of Perception.” In Teaching’s Art, Art’s Teachings, eds. T. Lewis and M. Laverty. New York: Springer, 2015. 63–78.

• Anne Keefe, “The Ecstatic Embrace of Verbal and Visual: 21st Century Lyric beyond the Ekphrastic Paragone.” Word & Image 27.2 (2011): 135–47.

• Anne Keefe, “An Interview with Sharon La Cruise” in “Women, Education, & Activism,” Special Feature edited by Anne Keefe. Films for the Feminist Classroom 4.2 (Summer 2013).

SELECTED

AWARDS

• NEH Postdoctoral Fellowship in Poetics (Emory University, 2013–14)

• Bull City Press First Book Award (2010)

• Mellon Dissertation Research Grant (Rutgers, 2010)

• Mellon Dissertation Writing Stipend (Rutgers, 2009)

• Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Prize (2006)

• Rutgers University Graduate Fellowship (2004–5)