Destry Maria Sibley

PS2 Public Research Fellow

Destry Maria Sibley is an oral historian, digital media
producer, and doctoral candidate in English literature at the Graduate
Center, CUNY. Her dissertation, “After Mother: Genres of the Maternal in
Twenty-First Century American Memoir,” a written text and accompanying
podcast, reads contemporary American life writing to recast the mother
figure as a genre of the human and object of received knowledge. She is
the recipient of a Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowship, a
CUNY Provost Enhancement Fellowship, and a Fulbright-National Geographic
Digital Storytelling Fellowship