Education
Professional Bio
Casey Tilley is a dual-title PhD candidate in Comparative Literature and Asian Studies. Their dissertation, titled "Workers' Ecopoetics as Development Discourses", examines contemporary dagong shige (migrant workers' poetry) from China and literatura de cordel (pamphlet poetry) from Brazil as interventions in local and transnational imaginations of the relationships between the nonhuman environment, industry, and labor.
Areas of Specialization
Poetry/poetics, ecocriticism and environmental humanities, South-South comparison, migration and labor studies, literatures in Chinese, literatures of the Americas
Publications
Translation and critical introduction: “Wetlands, Petrochemicals, Island Imagination: Preface by Wu Ming-yi, Selected Poems and Lyrics,” Verge: Studies in Global Asias 10.2, 2024