Department of English

Lynn Emanuel


Professor of English

412-624-4036
emanuel@pitt.edu

CL 609-C

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Lynn Emanuel has an MFA from the University of Iowa, an MA from City College of New York, and a BA from Bennington College.  She has taught at the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, the Bennington Writers' Conference, and The Warren Wilson Program in Creative Writing.  Currently she directs the Pittsburgh Contemporary Writers’ Series which she also founded. She is the author of four books of poetry, Hotel Fiesta, The Dig, Then, Suddenly—and, forthcoming, Noose and Hook.  Her work has been featured in the Pushcart Prize Anthology and Best American Poetry  and is included in The Oxford Book of American Poetry.  She has been a poetry editor for the Pushcart Prize Anthology, a member of the Literature Panel for the National Endowment for the Arts, and a judge for the National Book Awards.  She has been the recipient of numerous awards including the Eric Matthieu King Award from The Academy of American Poets, two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships and a National Poetry Series Award. In 2009 she was named Elliston Distinguished Poet-in-Residence at the University of Cincinnati. Among her primary interests are in 20th century and contemporary poetry and poetics. Recent courses have included a graduate forms course on the poetry manuscript, a readings course on New Criticism, Modernism, and Confessionalism, and a topics course on the contemporary poetry of war.

Research and Publications: She is the author of four collections of poetry; Hotel Fiesta, The Dig, Then, Suddenly--, and Noose and Hook. Her work has been featured in the Pushcart Prize Anthology and in Best American Poetry in 1994, 1995, 1998, and 1999. She has been a poetry editor for the Pushcart Prize Anthology, and a member of the Literature Panel for the National Endowment for the Arts.

Honors and Awards:She has been the recipient of numerous awards including the  Eric Matthieu King Award from The Academy of American Poets, two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships and a National Poetry Series Award. In 2009 she was named Elliston Distinguished Poet-in-Residence at the University of Cincinnati, McMicken College of Arts and Sciences..

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Teaching

Graduate Courses

  • Poetry Workshop
  • Topics in Poetry

Undergraduate Courses

  • Poetry Writing
  • Topics in Poetry

Other Duties & Service

  • Co-Director of the Writing Program
  • Advisor, Nidus
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