Kristen Case

Kristen Case is a public humanities scholar, educator, and program director with a background in poetry and American literature. She is the author of many peer-reviewed articles and five books of poetry and literary scholarship, most recently Daphne (Tupelo Press) and Henry David Thoreau’s Kalendar (Milkweed Editions). She is co-editor of several essay collections on American writers, including The Oxford Handbook of Henry David Thoreau (forthcoming, Oxford UP), and William James and Literary Studies (Cambridge UP), and is the recipient of the Gatewood Prize for poetry, the Maine Literary Award in Poetry (2016 and 2020), a MacDowell Fellowship, and the University of Maine Farmington Trustee Professorship. After a fourteen-year career at the University of Maine Farmington where she held the rank of Professor of English and directed the New Commons Project, a Mellon Foundation supported public humanities initiative, Case founded the Monson Seminar, an arts-based residential program for first-generation and Pell-eligible University of Maine system students now in its fifth year. In addition to her role as Executive Director and Lead Faculty of the Seminar, she is Visiting Faculty in the Department of Formative Education at the Boston College Lynch School of Education and a Research Fellow at the Harvard Divinity School’s Center for the Study of World Religions.