Harvard Map Collection, January 2023. Photo Credit: Giancarlo Huapaya
I am a writer and experiential educator interested in place-based practices.
POST BOND is my current project of historical research and documentary poetry based in one square mile in El Paso, TX. My research has been supported by the Huntington Library, the Mellon-funded Visualizing Abolition Dissertation Workshop, the Harvard Mellon Urban Initiative, and the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History.
I publish literary translations, essays and poetry. My commentary in Jacket2, Architectures of Disappearance, features poetry that responds with geographical approaches to physical and linguistic architectures of movement constriction. I am part of the leadership of Cardboard House Press and des/centro de poesÃa.
As a history instructor at El Paso Community College, I led the Mellon Humanities Collaborative project Carceral Geography in El Paso, TX: Creating Soundwalks to Experience Disappeared Histories. I have designed and led expeditionary learning programs in literature, history, and Spanish language while mountain biking, mountaineering, and paddling.
My BA in History & Literature is from Oxford University, and I am a PhD candidate in History at Harvard. Many of my ancestors were English-Irish settlers on Wampanoag, Narragansett and Massachusett land. I grew up attending the Amigos School, a Spanish-bilingual public school in Cambridge, MA. I am currently based in Providence, RI.
Contact: hspicer at fas.harvard.edu
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