Department of English

Michael Martin Shea is a poet, translator, editor, and scholar. He is the author of The Immanent Fields (New Mundo Press, 2026), along with multiple chapbooks of poetry, including most recently Treat Culture (Creative Writing Department, 2026). His translation of the Argentine poet Liliana Ponce's Theory of the Voice and Dream (World Poetry Books, 2025) won the 2026 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation. His poems and translations have appeared widely, including in the pages of Chicago Review, Conjunctions, Fence, New England Review, Poetry, and elsewhere. His scholarly work on hemispheric poetry and poetics is forthcoming in Comparative Literature and English Literary History. He earned his doctorate in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory from the University of Pennsylvania and is currently the NeunerPate/BORSF Endowed Assistant Professor of English at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. From 2015 to 2020, he served on the core editorial team of the Best American Experimental Writing anthology series, published by Wesleyan University Press.