Department of English Language and Literature
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Elise Blackwell
Title: | Professor |
Department: | English Language and Literature College of Arts and Sciences |
Email: | eliseblackwell@outlook.com |
Office: | HUO, Room 604 |
Resources: | Curriculum Vitae [pdf] English Language and Literature |
Education
MFA, University of California, Irvine
Specialization
Creative Writing
Contemporary Fiction
Courses
ENGL 610 Writing the Novel
ENGL 602 Seminar in Prose Composition
ENGL 492 Advanced Fiction Writing
ENGL 465 Fiction Workshop
ENGL 360 Introduction to Creative Writing
ENGL 282 Fiction (large lecture)
SCHC 354 Travel Writing (Honors College)
Accolades
Teaching Awards
• Michael J. Mungo Undergraduate Teaching Award
• Department of English Excellence in Teaching Award
• Nominee, Michael A. Hill Outstanding Honors College Faculty Teaching Award
Literary Recognition
Elise Blackwell's novels have been translated into several languages and named to
various best-of-the-year lists, including those of the Los Angeles Times, Sydney Morning
Herald, Kirkus, and Book Sense Annual Highlights. For more details or to read review
excerpts, please visit eliseblackwell.com.
Current Positions
• Host, The Open Book
• Thomas Cooper Society Board
Current Research Projects
• A novel set in 19th-century new Orleans
• Lumber Piles of Love (series of 100 pieces of flash fiction triggered by Pablo Neruda's
love sonnets)
Selected Publications
Books
• The Lower Quarter
• An Unfinished Score
• Grub
• The Unnatural History of Cypress Parish
• Hunger
Selected Short Fiction
• "Before Texas" A Shared Voice: a Conversation in Narrative by Twenty-four of
the Finest Fiction Writers in America, edited by Tom Mack and Andrew Geyer, Lamar
University Press
• "Warehouse" Flash: The International Short-Short Story Magazine
• "Necrotic" The Newport Review
• "Polk County" Five Chapters
• "Closed World" Coal City Review
Selected Nonfiction
• "Sense of an Ending" Brick
• "Carolina Dog" Carolina Writers and their Literary Dogs, edited by John Lane
and Betsy Teter, Hub City Press
• Regular column on fiction and the academy, The Chronicle of Higher Education
(2010-2012)
• "In Situ" The Atlantic (online edition)
• "W.G. Sebald's Austerlitz" The Millions
• Reports on the 2009 PEN World Voices Festival, PEN website
• "Sixth of Seven." Topic
Recent Presentations
University Readings
• Dartmouth College
• Johns Hopkins University
• Louisiana State University
• University of Denver
• Georgia State University
• Widener University
• Medaille College
• Southern Connecticut State University
• University of Central Arkansas
• University of South Carolina-Aiken (James and Mary Oswald Distinguished Writers
Series)
• University of California-Irvine
• Redlands University
• University of Vermont
Book Festival Appearances
• West Cork Literary Festival (Bantry, Ireland)
• Alabama Book Festival
• Virginia Festival of the Book
• New York is Book Country
• Literary Orange (Irvine, California)
• Louisiana Book Festival, Words & Music Festival (New Orleans)
• Printers Row Festival (Chicago)
• Decatur Book Festival
• Fall for the Book (Virginia)
• Southern Festival of Books (Nashville).
Other Talks and Readings
• Institute on Contemporary Literature
• Faulkner Society (State Museum, New Orleans)
• Squaw Valley Community of Writers
• The Gathering (Keystone College)
• Cell Theatre (New York City)
• The Tank (New York City)
• KGB Bar (New York City)
• Georgia Center for the Book
• Lifeline Theatre (Chicago)
• Log Cabin Literary Center (Boise, Idaho)
• and dozens of bookstores
Panel Presentations
• Squaw Valley Community of Writers, AWP Conference, The Gathering, Words & Music Festival