About

Micah Bateman is a researcher, essayist, and poet from rural East Texas. His research focuses on American cultural heritage from small community archives to big social-media platforms. He is at work on a grant from the Institute of Museum & Library Services to investigate strategic practices and partnerships for coordinating robust community memory in rural communities, and his book project, Lyric Publics: The Uses of Poetry in American Social-Media Campaigns, charts the circulations of poets and poems on social-media during periods of political contest. He is also a practicing creative writer. His personal essay, "Son of Batman," was a finalist for The Iowa Review Award in Nonfiction as well as the Hunger Mountain Creative Nonfiction Prize, and his poem, "Poem Half Aubade Half Nocturne," won the Poetry Society of America's Lyric Poetry Award.

 Appointments

Assistant Professor, School of Library and Information Science, University of Iowa, 2022-present; Lecturer, 2020-2022

Co-Chair, DH in Lib* SIG, Association for Computing and the Humanities (ACH), 2025-present

Member, Information Technology Advisory Committee, University of Iowa, 2022-present

Member, Walt Whitman Archive advisory board, 2022-present

Member, Virtual Writing University advisory board, Graduate College, University of Iowa, 2022-present

Member, Public Digital Humanities Certificate Program, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Iowa, 2022-present

Poetry Editor, River Styx, 2023-2024; Contributing Editor, 2023-present

Fellow, Andrew W. Mellon Engaged Scholar Initiative, College of Liberal Arts, University of Texas at Austin, 2019-2020

Digital Collections Services Assistant, Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin, 2019-2020

Assistant Director, New Writers Project MFA Program, Department of English, University of Texas at Austin, 2017-2019

Visiting Writer, Department of English, University of Iowa, 2011-2012

Coordinator of Student and Alumni Relations, Alumni and Development, Washington University in St. Louis, 2008-2009

 Education

Degrees

Ph.D. English, University of Texas at Austin, 2021

M.A. Library and Information Science, University of Iowa, 2015

M.F.A. Poetry, Iowa Writers' Workshop, 2011

B.A. English, Washington University in St. Louis, 2007

Certifications

Design4Online, University of Iowa, 2022

Inclusive Classrooms Leadership, University of Texas at Austin, 2021