Yasmine Shamma

Dr. Yasmine Shamma (she/her) is a professor of literature at the University of Hull. She is the author of Spatial Poetics: Second Generation New York School Poetry (Oxford University Press, 2018), the editor of Migration, Culture and Identity (Palgrave, 2023) and Joe Brainard’s Art (Edinburgh University Press, 2019), and the interviewer and coeditor of Conversations With the New York School (Edinburgh University Press, 2025). She currently writes about all things New York School, alongside her work on refugees and migration. 

Shamma is a curator and principal investigator of Making Home Away, a storytelling project that highlights the personal experiences of migrants and refugees. She is also the cofounder of the Network for New York School Studies alongside Dr. Rona Cran. Shamma’s research has been supported by fellowships and grants from the Leverhulme Trust, the British Academy, and the Arts Council UK. Her writing on the impacts of displacement earned her the PEN /Jean Stein Oral History Prize in 2024. She resides and works globally, from the United States and the United Kingdom to the Middle East.