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Marcela Sulak

Assistant Professor
Literature

  • Additional Positions at AU

    Affiliate Professor, Jewish Studies
  • Marcela Sulak teaches courses in translation, poetics, world poetry, and world literature. Her collections of poetry include "Immigrant" (forthcoming) and the chapbook "Of All The Things That Don't Exist, I Love You Best" (2008). Her three book-length translations include 19th-century Czech poetry and contemporary poetry from Zaire (Congo). She is currently completing a scholarly study called "1920s New York as a Construction Site for American Identity" which examines book-length poems about New York written by immigrant, migrant and foreign poets.
  • Degrees

    PhD, University of Texas at Austin
    MFA, University of Notre Dame
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Selected Publications

Books of Poetry: 

  • "Of All The Things that Don't Exist, I Love You Best" (Finishing Line Press, 2008)
  • "Immigrant" 2010, Black Lawrence Press

Book-length poetry translations:

  • "Bela-Wenda: Poems of Congo-Zaire" by Mutombo Nkulu-N'Sengha, Host Publications, 2009 (from the French)
  • "Bouquet" by Karel Jaroslav Erben, Twisted Spoon Press, 2010 (from the Czech)

Work In Progress

  • Forthcoming article from Poet Lore on translation: "Translation and Transgression." (2009)
  • Forthcoming new poems from Drunken Boat (2009).

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