Creative Writing Program News

Dr Howe and others at the 2015 Colloquium on the Trans-Atlantic Choctaw/Irish Exchange at UGA

Dr LeAnne Howe Collaborates with Irish Poets

Dr LeAnne Howe is collaborating with Irish poets Doireann Ní Ghríofa and Padraig Kirwan on both scholarly and poetic projects that celebrate the Choctaw gift to the Irish in 1847 during the Irish Potato Famine, a pair of projects that honors, as Kirwan writes, this act of " empathy and dialogue…

Andrew Zawacki

Andrew Zawacki on Poetry Now

The Poetry Foundation's podcast, Poetry Now, features Andrew Zawacki's poem "Gratophoph," written for his daughter.

Our newly minted PhDs with their major advisors

Congratulations to our Graduating MA and PhD Students!

The University of Georgia English Department is thrilled to announce that twelve students have graduated with an MA or a PhD in English in Spring 2017.  The graduates are listed below, with conferred degree, dissertation or thesis title, and the members of their committees.

LeAnne Howe

Professor LeAnne Howe Publishes Article on the History of the Native American Literature Symposium

Professor LeAnne Howe published an article in Wasafiri Magazine - International Contemporary Writing.

Johnny Damm's The Science of Things Familiar

English Graduate Student Accomplishments Spring 2017

The University of Georgia English Department is home to more than 85 M.A. and Ph.D. students, studying a range of creative and critical work—from creative writing to literary to language studies.

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