Jocelyn Brody
Josie Brody is a Ph.D student in the American Studies Department at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa. Her interests are in literature, poetry, embodiment, memory studies, and gender studies.
She holds a BA in Comparative Literature from Stanford University with minors in Slavic Languages and Literatures and Creative Writing. She completed an honors thesis on the Russian poet Anna Akhmatova and the capacity of Akhmatova’s lyric style to build relationships with readers which engender a responsibility to her memorializing project. In her time at the University of Hawai’i Josie hopes to continue to explore the embodiment of mnemonic language, and its uses by displaced and diaspora folks across what is known as ‘America’ in order to manifest and remember their homeland(s).