Anaïs Duplan

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Feb 18

Professor, Postcolonial Literature

BENNINGTON COLLEGE

Anaïs Duplan is a Professor of Postcolonial Literature at Bennington College, and has taught poetry at The New School, Columbia University, and Sarah Lawrence College, amongst others. He is a trans* poet, curator, and artist. He is the author of book I NEED MUSIC (Action Books, 2021), a book of essays on black digital media artists, Blackspace: On the Poetics of an Afrofuture (Black Ocean, 2020), a full-length poetry collection, Take This Stallion (Brooklyn Arts Press, 2016), and two poetry chapbooks, Mount Carmel and the Blood of Parnassus (Monster House Press, 2017) and 9 Poems/The Lovers (Belladonna*, 2018).

Duplan’s video and performance work has been exhibited at EFA Project Space, Flux Factory, Daata Editions, the 13th Baltic Triennial in Lithuania, Mathew Gallery, NeueHouse, the Paseo Project, and the Institute of Contemporary Art in L.A.

Duplan is the founding curator for the Center for Afrofuturist Studies (CAS), a residency program for artists of color. The CAS is based in Iowa City, where Duplan received his MFA in poetry from the Iowa Writers Workshop in 2017. As an independent curator, he has facilitated artist projects in Chicago, Boston, Santa Fe, and Reykjavík. He was a 2017-2019 joint Public Programs Fellow at the Museum of Modern Art and the Studio Museum in Harlem. In 2021, Duplan received a Marian Goodman fellowship from Independent Curators International for his research on Black experimental documentary. He is the 2021 recipient of the QUEER|ART|PRIZE for Recent Work, and won the 2022 Whiting Award for emerging writers.