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Graduate Teaching Fellow
Department of English and Comparative Literature
emilio Jesús Taiveaho Peláez is a PhD. candidate through the Department of English & Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. As both poet and scholar, their work engages the intersection of aesthetic experience and political discipline, blending critical, creative, and archival inquiry. Broadly, their work focuses on 20th-century hemispheric experimental poetry and the legacies of the New American Poetry of the 1960s. More specifically, their dissertation probes the shared literary and philosophical history of “Outrider Poetry,” tracing the riffs and rifts in the life and work of writers such as Anne Waldman, María Sabina, and Cecilia Vicuña.
As an instructor, their courses serve as collective investigations into the overlaps, continuities, and shared languages of poetry, cinema, performance, and decolonial cultural praxis across the Américas. They focus on the political and ecological imperatives of hemispheric poetry and poetics, drawing on work from artists and writers who mobilize social space, creativity and language to interrogate and intervene in environmental and social violence, historical occlusion, and trauma.

Click here to check out emilio’s Writing in the Social Sciences Unit Assignment, focused on songs affiliated with social movements.