Julia Lisella

About

Dr. Lisella is professor of English in the department of Humanities. She teaches courses in American literature, creative writing, and the medical humanities. Prior to Regis College, Dr. Lisella taught in the History and Literature concentration at Harvard College. She is a poet and a scholar of women’s writing, specializing in the American modernist period, contemporary poetics, multiethnic US writing, and writing and healing. She recently co-edited the essay collection Modernist Women Writers and American Social Engagement, part of Lexington Press’s “Activism and Innovation in American Women’s Writing” series, and is the author of two full length poetry collections: Always (Wordtech editions 2014), Terrain (Wordtech editions 2007) and a chapbook of poems, Love Song Hiroshima (Finishing Line Press 2004). Her poems appear frequently in literary journals, including most recently Exit 7, Mom Egg Review, Nimrod, Ocean State Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Italian American Review, Salamander, Gravel, B O D Y, and many others. Her poems have been anthologized in a number of collections, including To Learn the Future: Poems for Teachers, Sharing the Earth: An International Environmental Justice Anthology, and Unsettling America: An Anthology of Contemporary Multicultural Poetry. Currently, she co-curates the Italian American Writers Association in Boston Literary Series at I Am Books in Boston’s North End.