C. R. Grimmer (they/them)

C. R. Grimmer (she/her, they/them) is currently the Public Scholarship Project Director. They created and run the "Language, Literature, Culture" Dialogue Series as Series Editor with support from Project Manager and lead Video Editor Jacob Huebsch and Social Media Intern Reagan Welsh. C. R. is also at The Simpson Center for the Humanities as the Communications Manager. 

As a poet-scholar-teacher, C. R. is the author of The Lyme Letters, recipient of the Walt McDonald First Book Award at Texas Tech University Press and O–(ezekiel's wife), a chapbook and audiobook collaboration from GASHER Journal and Press. They have poems in journals such as Poetry Magazine, FENCE Magazine, Prairie Schooner, and [PANK], and peer-reviewed research in journals and anthologies such as The Comparatist. C. R. also created and hosts The Poetry Vlog, a teaching YouTube Channel and Podcast dedicated to building social justice coalitions through arts and scholarship dialogues. Their peer-reviewed, mixed-media ebook, The Poetry Vlog: Critical Edition is forthcoming from University of Michigan's OA imprint, Fulcrum.

Their work has received support through fellowships such as the Harlan Hahn Disability Studies Fellowship, a summer Mellon Fellowship at The Simpson Center, and the Jack Straw Cultural Center. You are welcome to learn more at crgrimmer.com.

Their current scholarly book project, Poetry as Public Scholarship: Activist Poetics in the Time of Social Media, combines research analysis and practitioner discourses through text, audio, and video to examine the relationships between racial capitalism, popularized poetry, digital humanities' social engagement, and public scholarship methods.