
Leonard Nalencz
Yale University, Ph.D. Comparative Literature, 2017
Dissertation Title: The Lives of Astyanax: Romance and Recovery in Ariosto, Spenser,and Milton.
Università di Bologna, Rotary International Scholarship, 1995-6
Princeton University, A.B. Comparative Literature, 1992

Associate Professor of English, University of Mount Saint Vincent, 2017—present
Adjunct Faculty, Bard Prison Initiative, 2018—present
Academic Position
Attention Labs:
Strother School of Radical Attention, Seeing Through Walls: Captive Audiences and the Carceral State (with Amber Pedersen)
University of Mount Saint Vincent, November 16, 2024
(Facilitators: Pam Ohakam, Jahony Germosen, Amalia Mayorga, Quinn Marchand)
Friends of Attention, June 5, 2020 (Presentation: “Ecphrasis and Attention: Imperial Shields”)
New School for Social Research, October 10, 2019 (Attention Lab, invited by Professor Dominic Pettman)
Urban Glass, Brooklyn, June 13 and 26, 2019 (Attention Lab with artist Anna Riley)
BRIC, Brooklyn, July 18, 2018 (Attention Lab with artist Anna Riley)
Queens College, November 7, 2017 (Attention Lab, invited by Professor Cloë Bass)
School for Visual Art, October 16, 2017 (Attention Lab, invited by Professor Media Farzin-Rad)
