Associate Professor Nomi Stone

Visiting Research Fellow

Of Pinelandia, Joseph Masco writes: “Nomi Stone maps the fantasies and poetics supporting US militarism today—an astonishingly original book.” Carolyn Forché described Stone’s poetry collection Kill Class as “a rare achievement” and in The Massachusetts Review, the book was described as “part of a new generation of writers who hold American readers firmly within the scope of blame and reckoning, much as Denise Levertov did during the Vietnam War.”

Winner of a Pushcart Prize and a Fulbright, Stone’s poems recently appear in The Atlantic, The Nation, POETRY Magazine, American Poetry Review, and Best American Poetry. Previously, Dr Stone was a Postdoctoral Researcher at Princeton University, and she was trained at Columbia, Warren Wilson College, Oxford, and Dartmouth. She just completed her fourth book manuscript, a collection of poetry about love, community, and queer kinship, You Could Build a World This Way, currently under review by publishers. In addition, she is the editor of three anthologies of poetry.

Dr Stone is now at work on her fifth book, Near Far: Empire and Remoteness in the Highlands and Islands, exploring the enduring coloniality of the Highlands and Islands through the lenses of anthropology and field poetics. Stone is currently researching remoteness and the geopolitics of empire as she conducts fieldwork across the islands of Mull, Bute, Uist, Benbecula and in the environs of HM Naval Base Clyde.