Title: Graduate Student

Department: English

Office: Buttrick 4-37
Email: emily.m.august@vanderbilt.edu

Degrees

• MA English, Vanderbilt University, 2010
• MFA Creative Writing, University of Minnesota, 2009
• MA coursework Art History, University of St. Thomas
• BA English & Philosophy, College of St. Catherine, 2004

Research Area

• The long nineteenth century:
• Anatomy, surgery, and the history of medicine
• Fairy tales
• Slave narratives
• Poetics
• GLBTQ studies
• Trauma studies

Current Courses

• Engl 102W: "Re-hearse: Anatomical Theatres and Mortuary Aesthetics" (Fall 2011)
• Engl 102W: "Comparative Cartographies" (2010-2011)

Current Positions

• Graduate Instructor, Department of English
• Poetry Editorial Staff, Nashville Review
• Social Chair, English Graduate Student Organization

Previous Positions

• Graduate Instructor, Department of English, University of Minnesota (2006-2009)
• FLiCX Speaker (Faculty-Led Interactive Cinematic eXplorations) (Spring 2011)
• Co-Coordinator, English Department Recruitment and Orientation (2010)

Professional Honors

• Provost's Graduate Fellowship, Vanderbilt University

Publications

• POETRY:
• "The Oracle," Callaloo, Fall 2011.
• "End of Days" and "The Gloomy Festival of Punishment," Hayden's Ferry Review, Fall 2011.
• “Prayer for the Withheld Interior” and “Even the Smallest Distance Makes a Chasm,” Quarterly West, 2008.
• “The Magician, Reversed,” Paradigm, 2008.
• INTERVIEWS:
• “An Interview with Brenda Hillman,” Water~Stone Review, 2006.