Srikanth (Chicu) Reddy

Srikanth Reddy is Associate Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature. He works primarily in the field of poetry and poetics, with an emphasis on creative writing. He is particularly interested in the intersection of critical and creative practice, and in the institutional history that has come to segregate those endeavors. His scholarly work focuses on modernism and contemporary poetry and poetics. Related interests include ekphrasis, lyric genres, and various historical approaches toward the epic. He authored the book-length poem Voyager (University of California Press, 2011) and Changing Subjects: Digressions in Modern American Poetry (Oxford University Press, 2012).