Juliana Spahr
Who Gets to Be a Writer?: Studying Equity in Contemporary US Literature
Policy Partner:
Syd Staiti, Executive Director, Small Press Traffic
Who Gets to Be a Writer?: Studying Equity in Contemporary US Literature
“Who Gets to Be a Writer,” led by Yakov Bart (D’Amore-McKim School of Business), Samsun Knight (University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management), Juliana Spahr (Mills College), and Stephanie Young (Mills College), is at once a foundational inquiry into the mechanics of literary production and an attempt to better understand the historical trajectories of authorship, prestige, institutional forces, publishing, and circulation that have a significant impact on both literary aesthetics and access across the late twentieth century into the present. We are partnering with Small Press Traffic (a Bay Area literary organization) and will be examining the entry paths for writers who are not part of networks that come with elite institutional ties. We are interested in discovering what other networks may enable these writers, and what writers and literary institutions of all sizes may have to learn from them.
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