Ariana Nadia Nash’s expertise is in nineteenth-century U.S. literature, particularly poetry and African American literature. Her other interests include global realist literature, film, social reproduction feminism, racial capitalism, and other anti-capitalist theory. She has previously taught at SUNY Buffalo, University of Chicago, and UNC Wilmington, and is a poet herself. Her first collection of poetry, Instructions for Preparing Your Skin, won the 2011 Philip Levine Prize in Poetry.