Chad Bennett
Associate Professor — Ph.D., Cornell University

Contact
- E-mail: chad.bennett@utexas.edu
- Office: PAR 319
- Campus Mail Code: B5000
Interests
Twentieth- and twenty-first-century American literature and culture, poetry and poetics, queer theory, gender and sexuality studies, film and media studies, and creative writing.
Biography
Chad Bennett is Associate Professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin. He received his Ph.D. in English from Cornell University, an M.F.A. in Creative Writing (Poetry) from the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and a B.A. in English from Stanford University. He is the author of Word of Mouth: Gossip and American Poetry (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018), and his essays have appeared in ELH, Twentieth-Century Literature, Modern Drama, Arizona Quarterly, ASAP/Journal, and Cinema Journal. He is currently at work on a book-length study, tentatively titled Nice Poem, which presents a queer reimagining of “avant-garde” or “innovative” poetics in relation to the seemingly incompatible experiential and aesthetic phenomena of the nice, the quiet, the shy, and the awkward. His poetry has appeared in journals including Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, Fence, Gulf Coast, jubilat, The Offing, and The Volta, and has been reprinted by Poetry Daily and Verse Daily. His first book of poems, Your New Feeling Is the Artifact of a Bygone Era (Sarabande Books, 2020), was chosen by Ocean Vuong for the 2018 Kathryn A. Morton Prize.
Interests
Twentieth- and twenty-first-century American literature and culture, poetry and poetics, queer theory, gender and sexuality studies, film and media studies, and creative writing.