Faculty

The full-time creative writing faculty at KU has been widely published and anthologized and has been awarded such distinctions as the Gertrude Stein Award, the Kenyon Review Prize, the Sue Kaufman Prize, the Kennedy Center Gold Medallion, and the Pushcart Prize. In recent years, visiting writers Michael Chabon, China Mieville, Salman Rushdie, Rita Dove, Cristina Garcia, Kent Haruf, Ted Kooser, Sherman Alexie, Cherrie Moraga, Naruddin Farah, Diane Williams, Paul Muldoon, Sam Lipsyte, Salvadore Plascencia, and many others have come to the KU campus to give seminars and readings.

G. Douglas Atkins

Professor

3109 Wescoe Hall
785.864.2609
gdatkins@ku.edu

Ph.D. (Virginia)

Areas of Research

History and Composition of the personal and the familiar essay; "creative nonfiction"; T.S. Eliot; Restoration and eighteenth-century poetry and prose; reading and pedagogy; literature and religion.

Darren Canady

Assistant Professor

3138 Wescoe Hall
785.864.3642
canady@ku.edu

MFA (New York University)

Areas of Research

Playwriting

Joseph Harrington

Associate Professor

3001-C Wescoe Hall
785.864.2575
jharring@ku.edu

Ph.D. (California, Berkely)

Areas of Research

U.S. literatures, particularly post-1900; poetry and poetics; cultural studies; political philosophy; mixed-genre writing; documentary poetry; experimental nonfiction.