About
CC Barrick is a doctoral candidate at the University of Michigan in the Department of Comparative Literature and holds an MA from King's College London and a BA from Stockton University. She is the recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship and the Department of State's AEIF grant that funded two years of teaching and study in Cyprus. She is also a recipient of a 2025 Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor award.
Her dissertation focuses on the Cypriot literary journal, Cadences: A journal for literature and the arts in Cyprus (2004-2020) and her interests include island studies, queer ecologies, translation, archives, architecture/landscape, and autotheory. Recent courses taught include ENG125: Paying Attention and CL122: Writing Ecology, Encounter, and Entanglement.
Languages: Ancient Greek, Modern Greek, Turkish (beginner), Italian (beginner)
Articles:
2027 (forthcoming): “From Cocoon to Cosmos: Cypriot Ecopoetics in Άλφα.” Journal for Modern Greek Studies. May 2027.
2026 (forthcoming): “Polyphonic Arrangements, Rhythmic Reading: Swiss and Cypriot Multilingual Journals” in Polyphony and Silence: Counter-hegemonic Writing Practices, Migration, and Multilingualism a special issue of Culture as Text. De Gruyter.
2019: “‘A Private Individual Without Concern for Policy’: Lawrence Durrell according to the Times of Cyprus.” C.20-an international journal. Vol 1 (1). June 9, 2019. https://c20ajournal.com/2019/06/09/a-private-individual-without-concern-for-policy-lawrence-durrell-and-the-times-of-cyprus/
2018: (with David Roessel) “Betty Putnam: An Unpublished One Act Play by William Carlos Williams.” Resources for American Literary Study. Vol 40. 2018. pp. 183-228.
