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Creative Writing Faculty

Gabriel Bump

Assistant Professor

Email: gbump@unc.edu

African American Literature American Literature to 1900 to the present Contemporary American Literature Creative Writing Irish Literature Literature and History Modernism Social Justice Southern Literature The Novel

Gabrielle Calvocoressi

Associate Professor / Walker Percy Fellow

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Email: calvocor@email.unc.edu
(510) 915-5157
African American Literature American Literature to 1900 to the present Comparative Literature Contemporary American Literature Contemporary Multiethnic American Literature Creative Writing Critical Race Studies Digital Rhetorics Disability Studies Feminist Theory And Gender & Sexuality Studies Literature and History Literature, Medicine and Culture Performance Studies Poetry and Poetics Post-Colonial Literature and Theory Queer Theory Science Fiction Visual Culture and Arts Women Writers

Tyree Daye

Assistant Professor

Email: tytyree@ad.unc.edu

African American Literature American Literature from 1789 to 1900 Arabic Literature Contemporary American Literature Creative Writing Critical Race Studies Critical Theory and Cultural Studies Depictions Of The Child Digital Humanities Disability Studies Drama Feminist Historiography Film and Media Studies Genre Theory History of the Book Latina / Latino Literature Literature and History Literature and Philosophy Literature and Religion Literature and Science Literature of the Americas Literature, Medicine and Culture Media Studies Modernism Narrative Theory Pedagogy Performance Studies Philosophy Of Language Poetry and Poetics Post-Colonial Literature and Theory Queer Theory Southern Literature The English Language The Novel Transatlantic Studies Travel Writing Visual Culture and Arts Women Writers Writing In The Disciplines

Stephanie Elizondo Griest

Associate Professor & Margaret Shuping Scholar of Creative Nonfiction

Email: sgriest@email.unc.edu

Contemporary Multiethnic American Literature Creative Writing Environmental Justice Studies Feminist Historiography Feminist Theory And Gender & Sexuality Studies Latina / Latino Literature Literature of the Americas Social Justice Travel Writing Women Writers

Michael Keenan Gutierrez

Teaching Asssociate Professor/ Associate Director of the Writing Program

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Email: mgutie@email.unc.edu

Contemporary American Literature Creative Writing Digital Humanities Rhetoric, Composition and Literacy Travel Writing Writing In The Disciplines

Sophia Klahr

Teaching Assistant Professor

Email: sklahr@ad.unc.edu

Creative Writing Poetry and Poetics

Michael McFee

Doris Betts Term Professor

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Email: mcfee@unc.edu
(919) 962-3461
Creative Writing Poetry and Poetics Southern Literature

Matt Randal O’Wain

Teaching Assistant Professor

Email: mrandal@email.unc.edu
(731) 441-2959
Aesthetics Creative Writing Travel Writing

Adam O’Fallon Price

Teaching Assistant Professor

Email: aoprice@email.unc.edu

Creative Writing Narrative Theory The English Language The Novel

Bland Simpson 

Kenan Distinguished Professor

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Email: bsimpson@email.unc.edu

American Literature from 1789 to 1900 American Literature to 1900 to the present Creative Writing Drama Literature of the Americas Southern Literature The Novel Travel Writing

Julia Ridley Smith

Lecturer

Email: jsmith8@unc.edu

Aesthetics African American Literature American Literature from 1789 to 1900 American Literature to 1900 to the present British Literature from 1789 to 1900 Comparative Literature Contemporary American Literature Creative Writing Feminist Historiography Feminist Theory And Gender & Sexuality Studies Irish Literature Literature and History Southern Literature The Novel Visual Culture and Arts Women Writers

Karen Tucker

Teaching Assistant Professor

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Email: ktuck@email.unc.edu
(919) 962-3520
Contemporary American Literature Contemporary Multiethnic American Literature Creative Writing History of the Book Literature, Medicine and Culture Social Justice Southern Literature The Novel Women Writers

Daniel Wallace

J. Ross MacDonald Distinguished Professor of English

Email: dhwallac@email.unc.edu

Creative Writing Southern Literature

Ross White

Teaching Assistant Professor / Director of Creative Writing

Email: white@unc.edu

Contemporary American Literature Contemporary Multiethnic American Literature Creative Writing Digital Humanities History of the Book Pedagogy Performance Studies Poetry and Poetics The English Language