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 magazines’ investments in the production of knowledge as a critical unertaking. I ask how these practices, as well as textual media themselves, are understood in relation to the possibility of political meaningful intervention.
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 also the founding editor of Ki, an online companion publication to Qui Parle: Critical Humanities and Social Sciences 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 justiniangreene (at) gmail (dot) com or on Instagram.