Professor Kimberly Campanello
- Position: Professor of Poetry
- Areas of expertise: poetry and poetics; innovative poetry; visual and concrete poetry; the long poem; ekphrasis; translation; experimental writing
- Email: K.A.Campanello@leeds.ac.uk
- Phone: +44(0)113 343 4775
- Website: Personal Website
Profile
I am the author of the poetry-object and durational performance MOTHERBABYHOME (zimZalla, 2019), two further poetry collections, and two poetry pamphlets.
This year Bloomsbury Poetry will publish my collection An Interesting Detail.
I am an inaugural Markievicz Award winner from Ireland's Arts Council and the Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht for (S)worn State(s) (The Salvage Press, 2024) with Dimitra Xidous and Annemarie Ní Churreáin and an Arts Council Ireland Literature Project Award for sorry that you were not moved (2022), an interactive digital poetry publication in conversation with Calvino’s Invisible Cities created in collaboration with Christodoulos Makris and Fallow Media.
In 2022 I received an Arts Council England Developing Your Creative Practice Award to foster my writing on chronic illness/disability.
I am currently creating a new version of Dante’s Commedia. It has been supported by the Devers Program in Dante Studies at the University of Notre Dame. My essay ‘Three Beginnings: Versioning Dante’s Commedia’ and my Canto 1 Inferno appeared in the winter issue of Poetry Ireland Review.
See my personal website for updates on publications and appearances.
Responsibilities
- Practice Research Lead
Research interests
My interests include poetry (especially visual and innovative poetry), the use of archival material, ekphrasis, translation, and the long poem.
<h4>Research projects</h4> <p>Some research projects I'm currently working on, or have worked on, will be listed below. Our list of all <a href="https://ahc.leeds.ac.uk/dir/research-projects">research projects</a> allows you to view and search the full list of projects in the faculty.</p>
Qualifications
- PhD in Creative Writing, Middlesex University
- MA in Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies, University of Cincinnati
- MFA in Creative Writing, University of Alabama
- BA in English and French, summa cum laude, Butler University
- Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice
Professional memberships
- National Association of Writers in Education
- Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
- Society of Authors
Student education
I was inaugural Programme Leader for the BA English Literature with Creative Writing (2018–2021). I teach poetry at all levels in the School.
I am currently on sabbatical in the academic year 2024-25.
I am not currently considering PhD applications.
Research groups and institutes
- Creative Writing at Leeds
- Poetry Centre
- Centre for Practice Research in the Arts
- Leeds Centre for Dante Studies
- Medical Humanities Research Group