Editorial Intern

Anika Strite is a fourth year student at Barnard College studying literature and creative writing, French, and history. She is co-Editor-in-Chief of the Columbia Journal of Literary Criticism, where she heads the publication in a direction that highlights exciting, rigorous undergraduate scholarship and provides a forum for interdisciplinary critique. She is a poet and writer with work appearing in print issues of Quarto Magazine, Barnard Echoes, and Wingless Dreamer. In 2024, her chapbook Volta was published by Quarto Magazine after winning its annual chapbook contest. She has received Barnard English departmental awards for her poetry writing, including the Lenore Marshall Prize and the Amy Loveman Memorial Fund Prize.

Anika was plunged into her modernism moment (which she is sure will last her lifetime) after taking a class with Ross Posnock at Columbia University. She is interested in literature that does not seek to serve intelligibility to its reader, and grapples with the paradox of confronting the insufficiency of language to capture experience while using language as its medium. Anika is a fan of cubism and the intersections of avant-garde visual and literary arts in the early twentieth century. Naturally, one of her favorite writers is Gertrude Stein. In her own work, Anika writes on themes surrounding the body, aesthetics, form, philosophy, and translation. Some of her favorite books include Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying, Anne Carson’s Eros the Bittersweet, Rachel Cusk’s Transit, and Barthes’ A Lover’s Discourse. Favorite poets include Stein, Carson, Wallace Stevens, Petrarch, and Ama Codjoe.

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