I am currently working on a postdoctoral project exploring the concept of ‘Literary Curation’ in Twenty-first Century American poetry. I completed a PhD at the University of Leeds on ‘Donald Hall’s Poetics of Process’ and have spent time as an archival researcher at Harvard and the University of New Hampshire.

I am also a founding Board Member of the European Association of American Studies Poetry Network and work closely with the Walt Whitman Initiative.

I have published widely in international journals on topics ranging from poetry, archives and the literary interview to sculpture and Modernism.

Academic publications

Cheseldine, Lucy, A Formal Intimacy: Donald Hall in Henry Moore’s Atelier, under review with Cambridge Quarterly.

“Yorkshire Modernisms” (Special Issue), Modernist Cultures, editor, forthcoming Autumn 2024

Cheseldine, Lucy, An Aesthetics of the American Literary Interview, New American Studies Journal: A Forum, forthcoming April 2024

Cheseldine, Lucy, “Talking Modernism: Donald Hall’s Paris Review Interviews”, Essays in Criticism, vol. 73.1, (January 2023), 76-94. https://doi.org/10.1093/escrit/cgad012

Cheseldine, Lucy, “Labouring Destination: A Poetics of Inheritance in Donald Hall’s Life Work”, Oxford Research in English, vol. 11, (2020), 43-61. https://oxfordresearchenglish.files.wordpress.com/2020/09/dest_a3_cheseldine-1.pdf

Cheseldine, Lucy, “Review: The Labour of Laziness in American Literature.” Comparative American Studies An International Journal, (2020), 1-2. https://doi.org/10.1080/14775700.2020.1748366

Cheseldine, Lucy, “Review: Alessandro Cabiati, ‘Fabulous Operas, Rock ‘n’ Roll Shows: The Intoxication and Poetic Experimentation of Arthur Rimbaud and Jim Morrison’”, The Jim Morrison Journal, (2019), 2-7. https://jimmorrisonjournal.files.wordpress.com/2019/11/01cheseldine.pdf

Cheseldine, Lucy, “Review: Jon C. Teaford, The Twentieth-Century American City: Problem, Promise and Reality” Irish Journal of American Studies, 8 (2018), http://ijas.iaas.ie/issue-7- lucy-cheseldine/

Conferences

EAAS Conference, ‘1924-2024: The American Immigrant Revisited’, Amerikahaus Munich, April 2024. EAAS Poetry Network Roundtable. Paper title, ‘Notes, Flights and Postcards: The International Poet and the Modern Institution’.

The Northern Modernism Seminar, “Yorkshire Modernisms”, University of Leeds, May 2023. Organising Committee.

EAAS Conference, Wastelands, UNED, Madrid, 2022. EAAS Poetry Network Roundtable, “Waste, Ruins, and What Remains: Discussing the Aesthetic Legacy of T.S. Eliot’s Poetry”. Fellow participants: Professor Philip McGowan, Queens University Belfast, Dr. James Dowthwaite, University of Göttingen, Ellen Hinsey, writer.

The Sylvia Plath Society Annual Conference, online, 2022. Chair of panel, “Plath’s Reception”.

Sculpture and Poetry Conference, The Henry Moore Institute, 2022. Paper title, “Work, Talk, Make: Donald Hall and Henry Moore in the Atelier”.

EAAS Conference, 20/20 Vision: Citizenship, Space, Renewal, online, 2021. Paper Title, “Failed Language and Bovine Faeces: Wasted Space in Donald Hall’s Life Work”.

The Essay Today Symposium, Trinity College Dublin, 2020. Paper title, “A Place of Language: Donald Hall’s Poetics of Inheritance”

Re-working Georgics Conference, University of Leeds, 2019. Paper title, “Transitions of Labour in Donald Hall’s prose”.

BAAS Annual Conference, Christ Church University, Canterbury, 2017. Paper title, “New England Ghosts: Donald Hall’s Architecture of Grief”.

IAAS Symposium, “Make America            Again?”, University College Cork, 2017. Paper Title, “Mark Twain, The Performer”.

Media

‘Auroras of Autumn: Language, Landscape and an Autumnal Obsession” Ilkley Literature festival, ‘Settee Seminars’ Podcast series, Apple podcasts. (09/2021)