Graduate Student Directory

Madison Jarret McCartha
  • Title
    • PhD Candidate
  • Division Humanities Division
  • Department
    • Literature Department
  • Affiliations Creative Writing Program
  • Phone
    6192532683
  • Email
  • Website
  • Office Location
    • Humanities Building 1, N/A
  • Office Hours Pronouns: They/them
  • Mail Stop Literature Department

Biography, Education and Training

Madison McCartha is a poet, critic, and multimedia artist whose debut book of poetry and visual art, FREAKOPHONE WORLD, was published by Inside the Castle in 2021. Their second book, THE CRYPTODRONE SEQUENCE, is forthcoming from Black Ocean. McCartha holds an MFA from the University of Notre Dame. As a PhD Candidate at the University of California, Santa Cruz, they investigate the ways media art and electronic literature might tell us something new about boundaries, permission, and race. ​ Their peer-reviewed essay, "Notes toward a Virtual Poetics," was published by Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience in 2022.