Doctoral Candidate
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About
INTERESTS
c20 U.S. literature and culture
Material culture
Modernism
Counterculture and postwar experimentalism
Intersections of literary form and material environments
Liza Barros Santos is a PhD candidate in English Language & Literature at the University of Michigan. Her research focuses on twentieth-century U.S. literature, material culture, and countercultural discourse. Drawing from object-oriented and systems-based theoretical frameworks, her work explores material and ideological agents in shaping postwar American thought. She has presented her research at major conferences including NeMLA, the American Literature Association, and Faulkner Studies symposia in both the U.S. and U.K.
At Michigan, she has taught a range of undergraduate writing and literature courses with themes centered on labor, modernism, and material culture. Her pedagogical interests complement her research, focusing on the intersections of literary form, cultural history, and the politics of space, work, and material culture.
