Nese Devenot

Nese Devenot is an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Digital Humanities at the University of Puget Sound, where she teaches classes on psychedelics and literature and is also working on her book project, “Chemical Poetics: The Literary History of Psychedelic Science.” In 2016 she was awarded “Best Humanities Publication in Psychedelic Studies” from Breaking Convention in the United Kingdom as part of their First Annual Psychedelic Research Awards. As a 2016 Cosmic Sister Women of the Psychedelic Renaissance grant recipient, she is working on a journalistic account of a fully-funded trip to ayahuasca retreat centers in the Peruvian Amazon. She was a 2015-16 Research Fellow at the New York Public Library’s Timothy Leary Papers and also a Research Fellow with the New York University Psilocybin Cancer Anxiety Study, where she participated in the first qualitative study of patient experiences. She has presented on psychedelics at numerous conferences in the United States, Canada, England, Australia, and the Netherlands.
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Nese’s website: www.chemicalpoetics.com