Conference Agenda

This Dream Team session will explore poetry as a radical, affective, and indigenous method of inquiry—one that disrupts traditional academic forms and centers embodied, emotional, and political knowledge. Poetry Inquiry is not merely a stylistic choice; it is a methodological intervention that foregrounds voice, vulnerability, and resistance.

Drawing on previous work (Garcia-Meneses, Enciso Domínguez, and Chanez-Cortés, 2023), we will engage with the concept of the schizo-affective poem as a form of epistemic rupture. We want like to keep exploring how poetic expression can channel rage, exhaustion, and resistance within neoliberal academic structures. The poem’s fragmented, multilingual, and emotionally charged form challenges the sanitized, rationalist norms of academic discourse, offering instead a visceral, affective critique of institutional violence.

We will situate such poetic practices within post-qualitative and affect theory frameworks, arguing that poetry allows for the articulation of experiences that are often unspeakable in conventional research formats or conventional settings like higher education. We will also examine how poetic inquiry can serve as both data collection and analysis—capturing the nuances of feminist pedagogies, identity, and resistance in ways that are deeply relational and ethically attuned.

As a dream team, we will work on original poems as data and result, inviting participants to engage with the emotional textures of feminist praxis, specifically pedagogical/teaching practices. We will also reflect on the ethical dimensions of poetic inquiry: whose voices are amplified, how emotion is represented, and what it means to write with, rather than about, participants.

At the end, the participants could choose to be part of a research project or just continue writing poetry by themselves.