Megan Behrent

Megan Behrent is an Assistant Professor of English at NYC College of Technology, CUNY. She received a Ph.D. in English from SUNY Stony Brook in 2013. Her research focuses on literature and social movements, in particular texts associated with second-wave feminism, and the intersection between race, gender, sexuality and class in twentieth and twenty-first century American literature. She has also written on educational policy and radical pedagogy and is a contributor to Inside Our Schools (Harvard Education Press) and Education and Capitalism (Haymarket Books). Her current project tentatively titled “Poetry & Politics: Audre Lorde, Adrienne Rich and the Women’s Liberation Movement” explores the friendship between Audre Lorde and Adrienne Rich, the literary and political influence they had on each other and the evolution of their political thought in the context of political debates about race, class and sexuality within the Women’s Liberation Movement.