Sally Hansen

Sally Hansen is a Ph.D. candidate in the University of Notre Dame’s English Department. Her dissertation, “Sounding Stigma: Graphic Poetry, Mysticism in the Flesh, and the Marked Body,” explores visually disruptive poems and the shifting scenes of feeling they encode. These “graphic” poems, with their experimental typographies, eccentric prosodic markings, and/or expanses of space, foreground rupture as a way to make unspeakable histories palpable. In her dissertation, she feels through these sensory entanglements toward what Fred Moten calls “mysticism of the flesh”—the polyrhythmic performances of the dispossessed.

Publications:

“Voice Metabolized: Sounding Predation in Douglas Kearney’s The Black Automaton.” ASAP/J, Nov. 2023.

Review: “Hopkins Now: A Special Issue, eds. Lesley Higgins and Amanda Paxton,” Hopkins Quarterly,  Vol. XLVII, No. 1-2. 

Review: "Wild Belief, by Nick Ripatrazone." Fare Forward, Spring 2021.

Conferences Presentations:

“Runaway Tongues: Douglas Kearney’s Dineffable Poetics,” ASAP, Seattle, 2023.

“Voice Mess: Sample and Split in Douglas Kearney’s The Black Automaton,” ALA, Boston, 2023.

“Passionate Echoes: Sprung Rhythm’s Queer Stigma,” International Hopkins Conference, Virtual, 2022.

“Affective Movement: Arriving ‘Here’ in Claudia Rankine’s Don’t Let Me Be Lonely,” ALA, Chicago, 2022.

“‘what no one / wanted anyway’: Secrets and Chthonic Echo Signals in Susan Howe’s Debths,” NEMLA, Baltimore MD, 2022

“A Musical Phenomenology: Rhythm and Remembrance in Hilda Morley’s ‘Organic Form,’” ReVIEWING Black Mountain College, Asheville NC.

“Telling Moments and Speaking Silences: Queerness, Ritual and Race in Lydia Cabrera's Cuetos Negros de Cuba," University of Toronto, 2021.

“Musical Movement: Sacramental Translation in Joby Talbot’s Path of Miracles.” Yale Institute of Sacred Music, 2017.