Joyce Amen
(she/her/hers)
“We should accept our own lot whatever it be, and try to render happy that of others. Should we not?” — Miss Marchmont from Villette by Charlotte Brontë
“Dear Mama, / here are the poems / you never wrote / here are the plants / you never grew, / all that i am / i am for him / all that i do / i do for you.” — Lucille Clifton
“Oh, savage Beauty, suffer me to pass, / That am a timid woman, on her way / From one house to another!” — “Assault” by Edna St. Vincent Millay
“but I saw the Darkness / and I am the Darkness.” — Nikki Giovanni (June 7, 1943-December 9, 2024)
“With stately step now autumn comes, / Queenly in her proud career, / With garland decked in ripened fruits, / Comes to crown the bounteous year.” — Horace Beriah Chamberlain (1834-1861; photographed poem w/ permission from the Library of Congress [LOC], Washington, D.C.)
My favorite movie is obviously Carrie (1976).
Social
Education
- CUNY-Brooklyn College, Bachelor’s degree in Sociology with a minor in Puerto Rican and Latino Studies (2018-2021).
Academic Interests
My research interests include substance (mis)use; PTSD; trauma; the long-term effects of bullying, especially in schools and in the workplace; disability justice; and more.
Separate interests: C19th mourning customs, Romantic & Victorian poetry, the trobairitz, Charlotte Forten Grimké, Anna Julia Cooper, Horace Beriah Chamberlain, General Adelbert Ames, General & engineer G.K. Warren, Guillaume de Machaut, &c.
