Claire Millikin
CLAIRE MILLIKIN grew up in Georgia, North Carolina, and overseas. She received her BA in Philosophy from Yale University; earned her MFA in poetry from New York University, and PhD in English Literature from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She currently teaches at the University of Maine.
Her academic works published under Claire Raymond include: The Posthumous Voice in Women’s Writing from Mary Shelley to Sylvia Plath (2006), Francesca Woodman and the Kantian Sublime (2010), Witnessing Sadism in Texts of the American South (2014), Francesca Woodman's Dark Gaze, The Diazotypes and Other Late Works (2016), Women Photographers and Feminist Aesthetics (2017), The Photographic Uncanny Photography, Homelessness, and Homesickness (2019), 16 Ways of Looking at a Photograph Contemporary Theories (2019), Monsters: Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Mathilda (2019), and The Selfie, Temporality, and Contemporary Photography (2021).
She is the author of several collections of poetry, including the chapbook The Gleaners (2013), her first poetry collection, Museum of Snow (2013), Television (2016), and State Fair Animals (2018). Millikin has published three poetry collections with 2Leaf Press, After Houses (2014), Tartessos and Other Cities (2016), and Ransom Street (2019). Her poetry has appeared in numerous literary journals and magazines, including Crab Orchid Review, Alabama Literary Review, North American Review, Iris: A Journal About Women, Willow Review, Ekphrasis, The Southern Poetry Review, Off the Coast, North Carolina Literary Review, among others. Millikin is also the editor of Substance of Fire, Gender and Race in the College Classroom (2018), published by 2Leaf Press.
Millikin participates in numerous conferences, colloquia, presentations and workshops around the country, that capture a wide range of topics, including women’s literature, femininity, gender and violence, gothic and ghosts, poverty and race relations. Her fellowships, honors and awards include Excellence in Diversity Fellow (Univ. of Virginia, 2011-2012); The Carolyn G. Heilbrun Dissertation Prize (2003) The Helene Newstead Dissertation Year Fellowship (Graduate Center, CUNY, 2000-20012) and as a finalist of the James Hearst Memorial Poetry Prize (2011). http://www.claireraymond.org.
