Leonard Nalencz, PhD

Assistant Professor of English
PhD in Comparative Literature, Yale University
AB in Comparative Literature, Princeton University

leonard.nalencz@mountsaintvincent.edu

Select Publications

• Kuska Purikusun/ Let’s Walk Together: Poems and Stories in Quechua (forthcoming with Trident Press in 2024).
• “Romance and Recovery in Orlando furioso.” (Modern Philology, February 2024).
• “This Is Just To Say (Homage to W.C. Williams).” (Chronogram, February 2023).
• “On (Not) Reading Now.” (dispersed holdings, 2021).

Courses

• English 110 and 120: Literature and Composition
• English 271: The Power of Language: Poetry, Seduction, and Witchcraft
• English 334 and 335: American Literature From the Origins to the 20th Century
• English 336: Major American Writers (Modern Lyric Poetry)
• English 421/Sociology 470: Prison, Emancipation, and the Rhetoric of Liberty
• English 450 (Senior Seminar): The Fiction of Toni Morrison
• Honors 370: What Is Evidence? (with Professor Lawler and Professor Archibald)

Areas of Interest

• The Epic Tradition in Europe and the Americas
• Languages and Literature of the Americas
• The Essay from Montaigne to Didion
• Lyric Poetry and the European Tradition
• History and Literature of Global Practices of Incarceration

Associations

• Bard Prison Initiative
• Matthew Strother Center for the Examined Life
• Modern Languages Association
• Quechua Collective of New York

• Strother School of Radical Attention