Biography
Emelie Griffin is a faculty member in the Integrated Studies program. Her focus is on modern and contemporary American literature with particular emphasis in poetry and poetics, environmental writing and criticism, ekphrasis and experimental forms. Her creative work and research explore the mesh of self and environment, asking how conceptions of these are formed, undone, and reorganized in unstable conditions.
Dr. Griffin holds an MFA in poetry from Syracuse University and a PhD in Creative Writing and Literature from the University of Houston, where she was an Inprint C. Glenn Cambor Fellow and the Managing Editor of Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts. Her poems, translations, and criticism have appeared in journals including New England Review, Denver Quarterly, and American Chordata, and have been supported by the Academy of American Poets, the Ucross Foundation, and the Bread Loaf Environmental Writers’ Conference.
Viewing the humanities as a responsive field that reflects, critiques, and influences context, Dr. Griffin encourages students to investigate how their felt responses to literature and art might shift their relationships to interdisciplinary issues and questions.
Education
Ph.D. in Creative Writing and Literature, University of Houston
M.F.A in Poetry, Syracuse University
