Gloria, J. Eugene (Eugene), MFA - Faculty Bio

English

Professor of English and Chair of the English Department

Eugene Gloria is the author of four books of poems--Sightseer in This Killing City (Penguin Random House, 2019), winner of the Indiana Authors Award; My Favorite Warlord (Penguin, 2012), winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, Hoodlum Birds (Penguin, 2006), and Drivers at the Short-Time Motel (Penguin, 2000), a National Poetry Series selection and recipient of the Asian American Literary Award. His honors include a Fulbright Research Grant, Pushcart Prize, Poetry Society of America Award, and Fulbright Senior Visiting Fellowship, among others. He has also received fellowships for residencies at MacDowell, Yaddo, VCCA at Le Moulin à Nef (France), Fundación Valparaíso (Spain), Château de Lavigny (Switzerland), Nawat Fes (Morocco), Montalvo Arts Center, Willapa Bay AiR, Djerassi Resident Artist Program, Willapa Bay AiR, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and Ragdale Foundation. Gloria earned a B.A. from San Francisco State University, M.A. from Miami University, and MFA from University of Oregon. He is the chair of the English Department and a professor of Creative Writing at DePauw University

Teaching
At DePauw, I lead creative writing workshop at all levels and also teach First-Year Seminar and literature courses on contemporary American poetry and Asian American poets and writers. As a teaching poet, I ask my students to find ways to surprise not only our readers, but also themselves in their writing. I remind them that in the art of writing poetry our allegiance is to the imagination. In our close reading of the literature assignments in creative writing workshop, I encourage students to devise ways to inhabit the English language, to make it their own, and engage the world through language.

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