Christian Bischoff is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of English and the Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in the Humanities (IHUM). His dissertation explores how contemporary Anglophone poets work across genres to challenge history as a form of state violence. Mobilizing photography, legal theory, environmental policy, and sound art, his dissertation explores how poetry refigures our relationship with the past in order to make alternative, more just futures available.

Christian received an MFA in Poetry from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where he was a Truman Capote Fellow, and an A.B. from Princeton University, where he received a John McPhee Award for projects in independent journalism. His research and reporting have appeared in The New York Times and The New Yorker, among other publications.