Alana D Dagenhart-Calvo (she/her)
Professor College of Arts & Sciences English Charlotte
Biography and Expertise
Alana Dagenhart studies how poems grow from the land, how place informs poetry, and how poesies serves poets in writing and memorializing place. She also studies how spaces of oppression and deterritorialization can silence the voices of people of color and reinforce hegemonic ideology. An effective study of any literature should compare texts from many perspectives to examine trans-hemispheric aspects of; culture, gender, ethnicity, critical theory, diaspora, marginalization and concepts of home. Dagenhart believes literature must be read in context of the greater historical framework that produces it.
Education
MFA
Queens University Charlotte
PhD
Indiana University of Pennsylvania
MA
Gardner-Webb University
2025 Fulbright US Scholar in Irish Literature at Queens University Belfast
US/UK Fulbright Commission
Alumna Honored with Fulbright Award (Internet)
Gardner Webb University
March 4, 2025
https://gardner-webb.edu/news/english-alumna-honored-with-fulbright-award/
Association for Literature and the Environment United Kingdom and Ireland
Assoication for Literature and the Environment
Association for Writers and Writing Programs
Appalachian Studies Association
Multi Ethnic Literatures of the United States
Thomas Wolfe Society
North Carolina Poetry Society
Dagenhart-Calvo, A. & Bizzaro, P.
“Fred Chappell, Writer-Teacher and Aesthete: A Way Post-Confessional Poetry Happened in Greensboro.”
Asheville Poetry Review
31.1
33
20-51
Dagenhart-Calvo, A.
“In the Zero of Sky / Tamra Plotnick.”
American Poetry Review
42.2
Dagenhart-Calvo, A.
Two Poems
Thomas Wolfe Review
44 & 45
1 & 2
Dagenhart-Calvo, A.
President’s Message, “Pathfinding”
Pine Whispers
Dagenhart-Calvo, A.
President’s Message, “Art & Poetry”
Pine Whispers
Dagenhart-Calvo, A.
Panarama
Dagenhart-Calvo, A.
Yellow Leaves
Redhawk Publications
Dagenhart-Calvo, A.
“The Mountains as Sacred Spaces: Church, Place, and Culture in North Carolina Appalachian Mountain Poetry.”
Cambridge Scholars
Dagenhart-Calvo, A.
Blood
Finishing Line Press
Dagenhart-Calvo, A.
“Story, Place, and Solastalgia in the Writing of Thomas Wolfe”
Thomas Wolfe Review
Poetry reading for ASLE-UKI Biennial Conference, a curated reading of creative writers
Reading of Creative Work/Performance
Association for Literature and the Environment, United Kingdom and Ireland
University of Galway
Galway
Ireland
“Broken Water, Shifting Sand: Life and Land in Poetry from Hatteras and Aran Islands.”
Panel Presentation
ASLE-UKI Biennial Conference
Association of Literature and the Environment, UK and Ireland
University of Galway
Galway
“Art, Poetry, & Belfast: How Place Informs Poetry Writing and Being in the World.”
Oral Presentation
Queens University Belfast
Seamus Heaney Centre
Belfast
Poetry Reading
Quail Ridge Books
Raleigh, NC
November, 2023
Poetry Reading
Flyleaf Books
Chapel Hill, NC
October, 2023
Poetry Reading
Scuppernong Books
Greensboro, NC
October, 2023
Panarama
Exhibition
Minister of Culture
Panama City
June, 2023
Poetry Reading
Poetry Hickory
Tastefull Beans
Hickory, NC
April, 2023