Happy Work
An Interview with Lila Matsumoto
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12920259 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Greg Thomas (0000-0001-8887-5626, Independent Scholar, UK, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 2-3 |
| Pages | 166-180 |
| Publication date | 2020-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Contemporary Women s Writing (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1754-1476 • E-ISSN: 1754-1484 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/cww/vpaa020 |
| OpenAlex | W3113709283 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 2 |
Lila Matsumoto was born in Japan and raised in the USA. After studying English Literature at Vassar College, she moved to Scotland in 2007 to study for an MLitt in Scottish Literature at the University of Aberdeen. She moved to Edinburgh in 2009 and completed a PhD dissertation on Gael Turnbull and Ian Hamilton Finlay at the University of Edinburgh. While in Scotland, Matsumoto became an active participant in an experimental poetry community spread primarily between Glasgow and Edinburgh, supporting its development as a poet, editor, and curator of poetry and multimedia events. The latter included the little magazine and reading series SCREE and the performance series Syndicate (coorganized with Samantha Walton and Jo Walton), which brought together poets, musicians, and visual artists to create new multimedia pieces. Matsumoto also helped to curate the Outside-In Inside-Out Poetry Festival in Glasgow in Autumn 2016. Introducing an anthology of innovative verse by
Art · Art history · Literature · Poetry · Political science · Reading (process · Visual arts · Theatre and Performance Studies · History · Law
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |