Core Faculty

Associate Faculty and Past Faculty in Residence
Three associate faculty members give lectures on literature during three-day residencies at each residency, give readings of their own work, and confer informally with students. These writer/lecturers change each residency.

For instance, Barry Hannah has lectured on the writers of Oxford, MS; Robert Creeley on the poetry of Hart Crane and Charles Olson; Lucie Brock-Broido on first books of poetry; Sue Miller on Chekhov and Flannery O’Connor; Vivian Gornick on essay writers; Richard Howard on translation; E. Ethelbert Miller on black literature; Coleman Barks on the ecstatic tradition in literature; Robert Polito on the work of Jim Thompson and Frank Bidart; Mac Wellman on new plays; Agha Shahid Ali on the ghazal form and the poetry of T.S. Eliot; Ilan Stavans on Edmund Wilson; Karen Finley on the traditions of performance art; Tom Wicker on Ford Madox Ford’s The Good Soldier as “the perfect novel”; and so on.

Our past associate and core faculty include: