Professor / Graduate Faculty
Ph.D. 1989, M.F.A. 1986, Indiana University.

Fields of interest:
Creative Writing (Poetry and Nonfiction); Poetry; Twentieth Century American Literature; Literature and the Environment

Elizabeth Dodd teaches creative writing and literature.  Her latest book, Prospect: Journeys & Landscapes, a collection of nonfiction essays, appeared from University of Utah Press in 2003, and was winner of the William Rockhill Nelson Best Nonfiction Book Award. She's also the author of two collections of poetry, Like Memory, Caverns, which won the Elmer Holmes Bobst Award from New York University Press in 1992, and Archetypal Light, published by the University of Nevada Press in 2001. She's also the author of The Veiled Mirror and the Woman Poet: H.D., Louise Bogan, Elizabeth Bishop, and Louise Gluck (University of Missouri Press, 1992).

Dodd publishes frequently in the field of ecocriticism, with essays on James Wright, Terry Tempest Williams, Michael S. Harper, as well as other topics.  She is on the editorial board of ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment and is a Contributing Editor for Tar River Poetry. Dodd has twice won the Stamey Award for outstanding teaching from KSU's College of Arts and Sciences, and she is a recent recipient of the Kansas Arts Council's Fellowship in Poetry.

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