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Fred Dings

Associate Professor

Office: 512 Humanities Office Building
(803) 777-2343
dings@mailbox.sc.edu

 

Education

Ph.D., University of Utah, 1991

Specialization Areas
  • Creative Writing
  • Twentieth-Century American
Recent Courses

See Course Descriptions for detailed information.

  • ENGL 601 Seminar in Verse Composition
  • ENGL 760  American Poetry Since 1900
Current Research Project(s)

Third book of poetry.

Publications

Fred Dings has published numerous poems in periodicals which include The New Republic, The New Yorker, Poetry, Paris Review, TriQuarterly, and others. He has published two books of poetry, (Eulogy for a Private Man, TriQuarterly Books, 1999;
After the Solstice, Orchises Press, 1993;) two chapbooks; and various articles and reviews.

His work has been reprinted in several anthologies, textbooks, and philosophical/scientific books and articles; he has appeared on the television show Ex Libris twice, and was recently invited by the PEW Forum to present prose remarks and poetry in New York for hte first commemoration of 9/11.