Dr Rosa Campbell

Dr Rosa Campbell

Research Fellow

Phone
+44 (0)1334 46 2684
Email
rc466@st-andrews.ac.uk
Office
Room 102
Location
Beethoven Lodge

 

Biography

Dr Campbell (she/her) is a poetry scholar specialising in twentieth and twenty-first century poetics. Her teaching and research interests fall roughly into three broad categories: poetry and poetics; women’s writing and queer studies; and American literature. She is also interested in the relationship between poetry and visual art; approaches to life writing; the manifesto and ars poetica; and the poetics of failure. She has written most recently on Frank O’Hara and Eileen Myles.

In 2023 she was awarded a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship for a capacious project of recovery on the American poet and playwright V. R. ‘Bunny’ Lang. In 2024 she brought Lang’s poetry back into print in The Miraculous Season: The Selected Poems of V. R. ‘Bunny’ Lang; this was and was the Poetry Society’s Special Commendation for Spring 2024. A is forthcoming in 2026 with NYRB. Alongside her continued work on the poets of the New York School and a project on the poetics of failure, she is currently at work on a critical biography of Lang.

She is Co-Director of the , alongside Dr Nick Sturm (University of Iowa), and was the 2023/2024 Joan Nordell Visiting Fellow at the Houghton Library, Harvard. She completed her PhD in 2020 at 58³Ô¹Ï (with a thesis awarded the 2021 Samuel Rutherford Prize), and prior to that received an MPhil in Literatures of the Americas from Trinity College Dublin in 2015 and an MA (Hons) in English from 58³Ô¹Ï in 2014.

She is also a poet and writer, and the author of  (Broken Sleep Books, 2021), a memoir-ish lyric essay on grief and houseplants.

Selected publications

  • Campbell, R., 14 Apr 2026, Bird Watching and Their First Three Books of Poetry. Alessandri, J. (ed.). Portland, OR: Fonograf, p. xi-xviii

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Foreword/postscript

  • Open access
    Campbell, R., 7 May 2026, Literary Hub.

    Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article

  • Campbell, R. (Editor) & Lang, V. R., 28 Jul 2026, New York, NY: New York Review Books. 240 p. (New York Review Books poets)

    Research output: Book/Report › Book

  • Campbell, R., 21 Jan 2025, In: Review of English Studies. 76, 323, p. 123–125

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review

  • Lang, V. R. & Campbell, R. (Editor), 29 Feb 2024, Manchester: Carcanet. 232 p.

    Research output: Book/Report › Book

  • Campbell, R., Duncan, J. & Parlett, J., 13 Jan 2023, In: Women's Studies. 51, 8, p. 859-874 16 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

  • Campbell, R., 6 Jun 2023, Contemporaries @ Post45, Online.

    Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article

  • Campbell, R., 14 Dec 2023, In: PN Review. 50, 2, p. 12-15 4 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

  • Campbell, R., 31 Jul 2021, Llandysul, Ceredigion: Broken Sleep Books. 158 p.

    Research output: Book/Report › Book

  • Campbell, R., 19 Jul 2021, In: Contemporary Women's Writing. 16, 1, p. 119-121

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review › peer-review