Dr. Anna Veprinska

PhD

Pronouns: she/her

Assistant Professor

anna.veprinska@ucalgary.ca

Location

Office: SS1102

PhD English, York University, 2018

MSt English (1900-present), University of Oxford, 2011

BA (Honours) English, York University, 2010

Twentieth and twenty-first-century poetry, empathy, poetry after trauma, the Holocaust, genocide, creative writing

Honourable Mention for Memory Studies Association First Book Award, Memory Studies Association. 2021
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Postdoctoral Fellowship, SSHRC / University of Toronto. 2020
Faculty of Graduate Studies Dissertation Prize, York University. 2019
A.C. Silber Award for Holocaust and East European Studies, York University. 2017
Cummings Foundation Research Fellowship, Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. 2016
English Department Teaching Assistant Award, York University. 2016

Empathy in Contemporary Poetry after Crisis. Palgrave Macmillan. (2020)
Sew with Butterflies: Poems. Steel Bananas Press. (2014)
Stone Blossom [chapbook]. Anstruther Press. (2022)
Spirit-Clenched [chapbook]. Gap Riot Press. (2020)
"The Unanticipated Visitor: A Case Study of Response and Poetry at Sites of Holocaust Memory". Understanding Visitor Experience at Holocaust Museums and Memory Sites. Ed. Diana Popescu. Routledge. (2022)
"There and un-there: empathy in poetic encounters with Holocaust survivor interviews". Holocaust Studies: A Journal of Culture and History, vol. 29, no. 1. (2022)
"Ability, Academia, and Audiobooks: In Conversation” . Co-author Sarah Jensen. New Explorations: Studies in Culture and Communication, vol. 2, no. 2. (2022)
“Empathetic Witnessing in Charles Reznikoff’s Holocaust and Cynthia Hogue and Rebecca Ross’s When the Water Came: Evacuees of Hurricane Katrina”. Contemporary Literature, vol. 58, no. 3. (2017)
"Meetings with Anna Akhmatova: Translation as Interrogation” . The Bristol Journal of English Studies, vol. 2. (2012)