Biography
Faculty Bio
Chris Campanioni’s work on migration and media theory has been awarded the Calder Prize for interdisciplinary research and a Mellon Foundation fellowship, and his writing has received the Pushcart Prize, the International Latino Book Award, and the Academy of American Poets College Prize. His essays, poetry, and fiction have been translated into Spanish and Portuguese and have found a home in several venues, including Best American Essays and Latin American Literature Today. Recent books include a novel named VHS (CLASH Books, 2025), a creative nonfiction called north by north/west (West Virginia University Press, 2025), a notebook titled A and B and Also Nothing (Unbound Edition, 2023), and the poetry collection Windows 85 (Roof Books, 2024). His monograph on migrant subjectivity and a minoritarian aesthetics of work born in translation, Drift Net, will be published by Lever Press in the summer of 2025.
Awards and Honors
- The Graduate Center, CUNY, 2022, The Calder Prize for Interdisciplinary Research
- Pushcart Press, 2016, Pushcart Prize
- Empowering Latino Futures, 2014, International Latino Book Award, Best First Book
- Academy of American Poets, 2013, Academy of American Poets College Prize
Education
PhD, The Graduate Center, CUNY, 2022
MA, Fordham University, 2013
BA, Lehigh University, 2007
Research and Creative Works
Research Interest
Latinx studies; diaspora and migration studies; global media studies; intermedial and comparative media studies; digital poetics and creative writing with an emphasis on hybrid forms
Courses Taught
Past Courses
ENG 120: Critical Writing
ENG 223: Creative Writing
ENG 318: Feature Writing
Publications and Presentations
Publications
Houses in Motion: The Reimagining of Time and Space as Anomalous in Representations of Mobility
Campanioni, C. (2024). Ruxandra Trandafoiu (Eds.), Berghahn Books.
Windows 85
Campanioni, C. (2024).
A and B and Also Nothing
Campanioni, C. (2023).
Made in My Image: Co-Produced Fantasy and the Politics of Play
Campanioni, C. (2023). James Dalby and Matthew Freeman (Eds.), Routledge.
In Parallel with My Actual Diary: On Re-Writing an Exile
Campanioni, C. (2022). Kylie Cardell (Eds.), Routledge.
For a Cuban; For the Same; The Land of the Sun
Campanioni, C. (2021). Mary Ann Caws and Michel Delville (Eds.), Black Widow Press.
Rendition and #IWokeUpLikeThis
Campanioni, C. (2020). Tiffany Austin, Sequoia Maner, Emily Rutter, and Darlene Scott (Eds.), Routledge.
The Internet is for real
Campanioni, C. (2019).
Death of Art
Campanioni, C. (2016).
Going Down
Campanioni, C. (2013).