About
A member of the inaugural UNCF/Mellon First Book Institute cohort and a 2023 Virginia Humanities HBCU Scholarship Fellow, Dr. Scott Challener is a poet and scholar of 20th- and 21st- century literatures of the Americas, including U.S., Latinx, and Latin American poetry and fiction; comparative modernism; and poetry and poetics. He earned an MFA in Poetry at Warren Wilson College and a Ph.D in Literatures in English at Rutgers University. He taught for two years as Visiting Assistant Professor of English and American Studies at the College of William & Mary. He now teaches in the Department of English and Foreign Languages at Hampton University.
His poems and essays have appeared in ASAP/J, Contemporary Literature, Gulf Coast, Langston Hughes Review, Lana Turner Journal, Los Angeles Review of Books, Mississippi Review, Omniverse, Poetry, Post45's Contemporaries series, The Nation, and elsewhere. His current book project, Practicing the Impossible: Translation and the Poetry of the Americas, shows how translation becomes a social “practice of the impossible” and an expansive, creative, critical, and transgressive force in the postwar poetry of the Americas.
