Onur Ayaz

Lost & Found Archival Research Fellow

Onur Ayaz is a poet, scholar, and doctoral candidate in the English department at the Graduate Center, CUNY. His dissertation, Charles Olson’s Curriculum, focuses on the intersections of poetics and pedagogy in the liberal arts classroom by examining the poet Charles Olson’s teaching at institutions like Black Mountain College and SUNY-Buffalo, his network with New Americans like Paul Metcalf and Jonathan Williams, and the insights gained through teaching such a ‘curriculum’ in the CUNY classroom. Onur was recently a 2024 Junior Fellow at the Library of Congress, where he authored a research guide on African American Innovation, Invention, and Entrepreneurship (forthcoming) and has taught at Queens College, CUNY.