Jenkin Benson
Ph.D.
- jbenson3@nd.edu
Areas of Expertise
Anglo-Celtic, Modernism, Irish and Welsh Literature, Transatlantic Literatures, Poetry and Poetics, Creative Writing
Biography
Jenkin Benson is a 2nd year Ph.D. student. Focused on the political and aesthetic interchange between Irish and Welsh writers at the fin-de-siècle, Jenkin principally studies the development of Celtic nationalisms and their expressions in English literature.
His current scholarship investigates tensions between Celtic and British identity that can be found in the work of Welsh writers and examines how Anglo whiteness and Celtic otherness is stylistically negotiated.
Recent Scholarly Work
"Demystifying Defective Representation: A Stylometric Review of Zukofsky's Disjunctive Poetics" Presenter. University of British Columbia Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Fellow Research Day 2021.
"Mi Revalueshanary Iamb: Dub, Dialect, and The Radical Tetrameter of Linton Kwesi Johnson" Presenter. University of British Columbia Endnotes Conference 2022.
Education
Grinnell College, BA - English Lit and Political Science; University of British Columbia, MA - English Lit