Anaïs Duplan

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Anaïs Duplan '14 is a trans* poet, curator, and artist. He is the author of upcoming book I NEED MUSIC (Action Books, 2021), and a book of essays, Blackspace: On the Poetics of an Afrofuture (Black Ocean, 2020). He founded the Center for Afrofuturist Studies, a residency program for artists of color, at Iowa City’s artist-run organization Public Space One. 

Biography

Duplan is a trans* poet, curator, and artist. He is the author of upcoming book I NEED MUSIC (Action Books, 2021), a book of essays, Blackspace: On the Poetics of an Afrofuture (Black Ocean, 2020), a full-length poetry collection, Take This Stallion (Brooklyn Arts Press, 2016), and a chapbook, Mount Carmel and the Blood of Parnassus (Monster House Press, 2017). He has taught poetry at the University of Iowa, Columbia University, Sarah Lawrence College, and St. Joseph’s College. 

His video works have been exhibited by Flux Factory, Daata Editions, the 13th Baltic Triennial in Lithuania, Mathew Gallery, NeueHouse, the Paseo Project, and will be exhibited at the Institute of Contemporary Art in L.A in 2021.

As an independent curator, Duplan has facilitated curatorial projects in St. Louis, Chicago, Boston, Santa Fe, and Reykjavík. He was a 2017-2019 joint Public Programs fellow at the Museum of Modern Art and the Studio Museum in Harlem. In 2016, he founded the Center for Afrofuturist Studies, an artist residency program for artists of color, based at Iowa City’s artist-run organization Public Space One. He works as Program Manager at Recess. Duplan received his BA from Bennington College and was a visiting faculty member at Bennington for Fall 2021 and a Ben Belitt Visiting Faculty Fellow for Spring 2022. He joined the Bennington faculty in Fall 2022.

Courses

Fall 2025

Literature, Society Culture and Thought, History
Fall 2025

Spring 2026

Spring 2025

Black Studies, Literature
Spring 2025

Fall 2024

Black Studies, Literature
Fall 2024

Spring 2024

Black Studies, Literature, Society Culture and Thought
Spring 2024
Black Studies, Literature, Society Culture and Thought
Spring 2024

Fall 2023

Black Studies, Visual Arts, Literature, Society Culture and Thought
Fall 2023

Spring 2023

Literature, Society Culture and Thought
Spring 2023

Fall 2022

Literature, Society Culture and Thought
Fall 2022