Degrees
B.A., University of Virginia, 1994
M.A., Hollins University, 1996
M.F.A., George Mason University, 2001
Ph.D., University of Missouri, 2006
Teaching and Research Interests
Poetry writing
19th and 20th-century American literature
The long poem/poetic sequence
19th and 20th-century women writers
Personal Interests
Poetry writing, gardening, hiking, 20th-21st century literature, documentary poetics, poetry of witness, women's poetry and prose, ecopoetics
Awards
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry, 2007
T.S. Eliot Prize for The Miniature Room, 2006
Jay C. and Ruth Halls Fellow in Poetry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2005-6
Indiana Review Poetry Prize, 2005
Recent Publications
Website: www.rebeccadunham.com