Elise Blackwell
Assistant Professor
Office: 205 Humanities Office Building
(803) 777-2037
eliseblackwell@gmail.com
Education
MFA, University of California, Irvine
Specialization Areas
- Creative Writing,
- Contemporary Fiction
Recent Courses
See Course Descriptions for detailed information.
- ENGL 610: Writing the Novel
- ENGL 602: Seminar in Prose Composition
- ENGL 492: Advanced Fiction writing
- ENGL 465: Fiction Workshop
- ENGL 360: Introduction to Creative Writing
- SCHC 354: Nature Writing (Honors College)
- SCHC 354: Travel Writing (Honors College)
Current Research Project(s)
- Water Damage (a novel)
- Lives of the Composers (a novel)
- new short fiction
Books
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Grub |
The Unnatural History of Cypress Parish |
Hunger |
Recent Short Prose (selected)
- “Closed World.” Coal City Review Fall 2007
- novel excerpt. Cultural Vistas Fall 2007
- “After Carville.” Witness November 2006
- “Juarez.” Quick Fiction October 2006
- “Seeing Water.” Seed June/July 2006
- “The People on the Bus.” Global City Review Fall 2005
- “Sixth of Seven.” Topic Spring 2005
Recent Readings/Appearances (selected)
- The Gathering, Keystone College, Pennsylvania, August 2008
- West Cork Literary Festival, Bantry, Ireland, July 2008
- Decatur Literary Arts Festival, May 2008
- Johns Hopkins University, March 2008
- South Carolina Book Festival, February 2008
- Louisiana Book Festival, Baton Rouge, November 2007
- KGB Bar, New York City, October 2007
- Faulkner Society, New Orleans, May 2007
- Dartmouth College, Hanover, April 2007
- Moveable Feast, Pawley’s Island, July 2007
- Virginia Festival for the Book, Charlottesville, April 2007
- several dozen bookstores in the southeast, northeast, and west coast, spring-fall 2007