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Maggie Greaves is an associate professor of English at Skidmore College. Her research focuses on modern and contemporary poetry in a transnational context, cultural histories of science, and the history of emotions. Her book, Lyric Poetry and Space Exploration from Einstein to the Present (Oxford University Press, 2023), uncovers the surprising cultural role poetry has played in space exploration, as well as the impact of astronomical discovery on poetic craft. Her essays on poetry and poetics have appeared in Contemporary Literature, The Journal of Modern Literature, College Literature, Eire-Ireland, and elsewhere. She is also a Pushcart-nominated poet, with poems recently appearing in North American Review and Rust + Moth. She is currently working on a new book on scientific accounts of emotion in modernist poetry.