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    Emily Leithauser, PH.D.

    Faculty

    Humanities, Social Sciences, Media, And Arts Division

    • Visiting Assistant Professor, English
    Education

    Harvard University

    Bachelor of Arts, History and Literature (France)

    Boston University

    Master of Fine Arts, Creative Writing

    Emory University

    Ph.D., English

    Contact Information

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    Office Location
    Brawley Hall, Rm. 103-E
    Office Hours

    Tuesday/Thursday: 11:00 am-1:00 pm

    About Dr. Leithauser

    Dr. Leithauser teaches courses in Composition, Creative Writing, and Immigrant Voices, and her research interests includes Poetry and Poetics, British Literature, Memory Studies, 20th- and 21st-century Global
    Anglophone Literature, and French/Francophone Poetry.

    Dr. Leithauser's first book of poems, The Borrowed World (2016), was published by Able Muse Press. Since then, her poetry and scholarship have appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Poetry International, the Kenyon Review, The Global South, and The Hopkins Review, among other publications. Her translations from French have appeared in Literary Matters and Literary Imagination. She is completing her second book of poems, Foreign Shelter, and working on a novella.

    • Areas of Expertise

      Areas of Expertise

      • Composition
      • Creative Writing
      • Poetry and Poetics
      • British Literature
      • Modern and Contemporary Global Anglophone Literature
      • Memory Studies
      • French and Francophone Literature
    • COURSES

      Courses

      • ENG 101 - English Composition 101
      • ENG 102 - English Composition 102
      • ENG 391 - Creative Writing: Poetry
      • ENG 121 - Immigrant Voices: Beyond the Border
    • PUBLICATIONS & PRESENTATIONS

      PUBLICATIONS & PRESENTATIONS

      Book
      • The Borrowed World, 2016

      Journals/Magazine Articles
      • "Cardiac Flicker," The New Yorker, March 14, 2022.
      • "Interregnum," The Paris Review, Issue 238: Winter 2021.

       

    • CREDENTIALS

      CREDENTIALS

      Certificate in Publishing
      Columbia School of Journalism, Columbia University

    Areas of Expertise

    • Composition
    • Creative Writing
    • Poetry and Poetics
    • British Literature
    • Modern and Contemporary Global Anglophone Literature
    • Memory Studies
    • French and Francophone Literature

    Courses

    • ENG 101 - English Composition 101
    • ENG 102 - English Composition 102
    • ENG 391 - Creative Writing: Poetry
    • ENG 121 - Immigrant Voices: Beyond the Border

    PUBLICATIONS & PRESENTATIONS

    Book
    • The Borrowed World, 2016

    Journals/Magazine Articles
    • "Cardiac Flicker," The New Yorker, March 14, 2022.
    • "Interregnum," The Paris Review, Issue 238: Winter 2021.

     

    CREDENTIALS

    Certificate in Publishing
    Columbia School of Journalism, Columbia University