CLAIRE MILLIKIN RAYMOND is a scholar, professor and poet. She received her BA in Philosophy from Yale University; earned her MFA in poetry from New York University, and PhD in English Literature from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Her poetry has appeared in numerous literary journals and magazines, and is the author of several collections of poetry. Millikin Raymond's academic works include Women Photographers and Feminist Aesthetics (Routledge, 2017), Francesca Woodman's Dark Gaze: The Diazotypes and Other Late Works (Routledge, 2016), Witnessing Sadism in Texts of the American South: Women, Specularity, and the Poetics of Subjectivity (Routledge, 2014), Francesca Woodman and the Kantian Sublime (Routledge, 2010), and The Posthumous Voice in Women's Writing from Mary Shelley to Sylvia Plath (Routledge, 2006). Millikin Raymond participates in numerous conferences, colloquia, presentations and workshops around the country, that capture a wide range of topics, including women¿s literature, femininity, gender and violence, gothic and ghosts, poverty and race relations. Her fellowships, honors and awards include Excellence in Diversity Fellow (Univ. of Virginia, 2011-2012); The Carolyn G. Heilbrun Dissertation Prize (2003) The Helene Newstead Dissertation Year Fellowship (Graduate Center, CUNY, 2000-20012) and as a finalist of the James Hearst Memorial Poetry Prize (2011).

She currently teaches Art History and Sociology, as a Lecturer at University of Virginia. www.claireraymond.org.