Phoebe L Myers

Writer. Educator.

Historical oddities obsessor.

I love words in all their forms.

Creating them, studying them, and examining the cultures which produced them.

I write creative work and scholarship in literary studies. My interests investigate who constitutes America – the bodies, aesthetics, and emotions we’ve allowed to become part of our mythos, as well as those we’ve forgotten.

Lenses: sensory studies, critical race theory, postcolonialism, gender studies

  • Written Work

    James Fenimore Cooper Society Journal. “The Blushing Patriot: Gender, Race, and Embodying Sentimentalism in James Fenimore Cooper’s The Spy.” Print.

    The Fourth River Literary Journal. “Huitlacoche.”

    Southeast Review. “Flat-pack by Anney Bolgiano.”

    Tricycle Magazine. “Living with Bears.”

    Adelaide Literary Journal. “Palimpsest of the Plains.”

    Tricycle Magazine: “A Trick of Light.”

    Tallahassee Democrat. “Confines of connection play out in Anne at 13,000 Ft.”

  • Visual + Audio

    ctrl + v journal. Stop-motion animation collage using paper and Post-It notes. Watch here.

    Radio pieces

    WFSU Public Media. “Breakfast of Blues.”

    WFSU Public Media. “The Vase.”

  • Conference Presentations

    “The Blushing Patriot: Embodying Sentimentalism in James Fenimore Cooper’s The Spy.” Panelist at American Literature Association Conference. 2023.

    “A Floridian Modernity: Zora Neale Hurston as Walter Benjamin’s Ragpicker.” Panelist at South Atlantic Modern Language Association Conference (95). 2022.

    “Ethnofuturisms as Pedagogy and Praxis.” Roundtable discussion at Ethnofuturisms symposium. Florida State University. 2020.

    “Black Women Activist Poetry: A Practice of Revolutionary Narrative.” Art as Artifact symposium. Miami University. 2018.

    “Smitty’s Men’s and Boys’ Wear: Reflections of Progress in Over-the-Rhine.” Urban Futures Symposium. Miami University. 2018.