I am PhD candidate in sociocultural anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. I am also pursuing a Designated Emphasis (doctoral minor) in Global Metropolitan Studies. My dissertation research ethnographically explores the publication—understood as a collaborative ensemble of interrelated practices, including editing, translation, production, and distribution—of literary-critical magazines in São Paulo, Brazil. Working as an editor and translator, I focus on the techniques and tensions animating these magazines’ investments in critique and the production of literary knowledge. I ask how these practices, as well as literary media more broadly, are understood as furnishing a valuable critical mode capable of meaningful intervention in moments of political uncertainty.
In 2019, I received an MFA in poetry from Louisiana State University, where I was editor in chief of New Delta Review. From 2018-2021, I organized Entropy’s Where to Submit list, a quarterly compendium of submissions calls from hundreds of journals, small presses, and other literary organizations. I am on the editorial boards of Qui Parle: Critical Humanities and Social Sciences and Anthropology & Humanism, where I serve as an editorial advisor for poetry. I am also the founding editor of Ki, an online companion publication to Qui Parle interested in brief critical works and the forms they can take.
I’m open to discussing possible translation or editorial projects, and have a special interest in poetry and works across genres, modes, and disciplines. If you want to collaborate or just say hi, feel free to reach out at jigreene at berkeley dot edu or on Twitter.