About the L&T Program

Erica Kaufman (PhD, CUNY Graduate Center; MFA, The New School) has taught in the Language and Thinking Program since 2007. She is the author of three books of poetry, POST CLASSIC (Roof Books, 2019), INSTANT CLASSIC (Roof Books, 2013), and censory impulse (Factory School, 2009). Kaufman is also coeditor of NO GENDER: Reflections on the Life and Work of kari edwards (2009) and a collection of archival pedagogical documents, Adrienne Rich: Teaching at CUNY, 1968–1974 (2014). Kaufman teaches in the Written Arts Program at Bard College and has also taught at Baruch College, Parsons School of Design, and Naropa University. Her current research interests include modern and contemporary poetics, literacy studies, feminist and LGBTQIA+ studies, and writing across the curriculum. Kaufman is a regular contributor to Modern and Contemporary American Poetry, a course offered each fall as a massive online open course (MOOC) through the Kelly Writers House at the University of Pennsylvania. Kaufman’s prose, which focuses on poetry and pedagogy, has appeared in The Color of Vowels: New York School Collaborations (2013), The Supposium: Thought Experiments and Poethical Play in Difficult Times (2018),  Approaches to Teaching the Works of Gertrude Stein (2018), Reading Experimental Writing (2020), and The Difference is Spreading: Fifty Contemporary Poets on Fifty Poems (2022).