Sam O’Hana
Education
- Ph.D. English, Certificate in Demography exp. 2025
The Graduate Center, City University of New York
MFA Creative Writing – Poetry 2016
US-UK Fulbright fellow. Schools of Public Engagement, The New School, New York
BA (hons) English & American Literature with Creative Writing 2014
School of English, University of Kent, UK
International Study Year 2013
Faculty of Arts, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Diploma, Art & Design 2010
Manchester School of Art, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
Publications
O’Hana, S. “Charles Olson: Psychological Warfare Executive”, Chicago Review (Forthcoming 2024)
Chapters
Holman, B. & O’Hana, S. “An Alaskan Language Odyssey.” Language and Globalization: An Auto-Ethnographic Approach, 2017. Routledge.
Interviews
O’Hana, S. “Interview with Ammiel Alcalay”, Spring 2020, Poet’s Country Journal
O’Hana, S. “Interview with Arash Abizadeh”, January 2018, Poet’s Country Journal
O’Hana, S. “Interview with Judith Butler”, July 2017, Literary Hub
O’Hana, S. “‘The Responsibility of Intellectuals’, 50 Years On: An Interview with Noam Chomsky”, January 2017, Poets Country Journal
O’Hana, S. “An Interview With Nicolas Estrada”, 2016. ArtJewelryForum.org
O’Hana, S. “The Body and Its Detritus: An Interview with Michael Wiegers, Executive Editor of Copper Canyon Press”, 2016. NewSchoolWrites.org
O’Hana, S. “Taking Ideas on the Road: Interview with Sonia & Michael Collins of Chrome Yellow Books”. 2015. ArtJewelryForum.org
O’Hana, S. “Arrangements: Interview with Mariam Zafar” 2015. NewSchoolWrites.org
Poetry
O’Hana, S. “A Ship Loads at Bordeaux”, Moltogone No. 2, Spring 2020
O’Hana, S. “The University of Canterbury”, Beached Here at Random by Mysterious Forces- 50 Years of Poetry at the University of Kent’ 2016
O’Hana, S. “Inosculation”, “Third Rail”, “Each & Every, Public & Private”, “Paper Trail”, “News Chant”. 2015. BlazeVOX
O’Hana, S. “Civil Simulation”. 2015. 352 Degrees Magazine
O’Hana, S. “Getting Over More”, “Way To Produce”. 2015. Columbia University Journal of Literature and Art
O’Hana, S. “Landing Craft”, “Press”. 2015. Qu Literary Journal
O’Hana, S. “What the Business Card Said”. 2014. Not So Popular
O’Hana, S. “Exit to City” 2013 Not So Popular.
O’Hana, S. “Monologue by a Man at a Bus Stop, 2.30AM”. 2013. Not So Popular
O’Hana, S. “Graphemes for Gertrude Stein”, “Walt Whitman”, “The Model”. 2012. Ditch Poetry
O’Hana, S. “From ‘The Moon at La Jolla’’ 2013. Sound & Rhyme
Criticism
O’Hana, S. “Transplantation: A sense of place and culture. British and Australian Narrative Jewellery”, klimt02.net, May 2012
O’Hana, S. “Conference Report”, Gray Area Symposium, Mexico City, GrayAreaSymposium.org, June 2011
Positions
Advising Fellow, MS Data Analysis Visualization Aug 2024 – present
Co-Chair for Business, Doctoral & Graduate Students’ Council July 2023 – June 2024
Digital Fellow, Graduate Center Digital Initiatives Aug 2022 – June 2024
Teaching Fellow, Hunter College English Department, August 2020 – June 2022
Public Programming Coordinator & Director of Literary Events, Howl! Arts, Apr 2017- Aug 2018
Executive Assistant to founder Bob Holman, Bowery Poetry Club, New York May 2016 – Aug 2017
Grants
Dissertation Year Fellowship ($25,000) 2024-25
Doctoral Student Research Grant, Office of Research and Sponsored Programs 2023
Conference Presentation Support, Office of Student Affairs 2023
Hunter College Travel Award Grant 2022
Lost & Found Summer Fellowship 2020, ’21, ’22 ’24,
Center for the Humanities, CUNY Graduate Center ($1,000)
US-UK Fulbright Commission 2014
New School Award ($53,000)
Sculthorp Travel Bursary 2011
Darwin College, The University of Kent ($500)
Academic Interests
Twentieth century US & UK poetry, economics, demogaphy
