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Creative Writing Faculty


  • Department Chair

  • Carol Ann Johnston
    Associate Professor of English, Martha Porter Sellers Chair of Rhetoric and the English Language (1990).
    East College Room 410
    johnston@dickinson.edu
    (717) 245-1268

  • Contributing Faculty

  • Adrienne Su

    Adrienne Su
    Associate Professor of English, Poet-in-Residence (2000).
    East College Room 404
    (717) 245-1346 | sua@dickinson.edu | Visit Web Site
    B.A., Radcliffe College, 1989; M.F.A., University of Virginia, 1993.

    Her central course offerings include creative writing (poetry), The Craft of Poetry, and Writing about Food and Culture. Recipient of a 2007 National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, she is the author of three books of poems, 'Middle Kingdom' (1997), 'Sanctuary' (2006), and 'Having None of It' (2009).

  • Susan Perabo

    Susan Perabo
    Associate Professor of English, Writer-in-Residence (1996).
    East College Room 307
    (717) 245-1847 | perabo@dickinson.edu | Visit Web Site
    B.A., Webster University, 1989; M.F.A., University of Arkansas, 1994.
    Ganoe Award for Inspirational Teaching, 2001-2002.

    She teaches beginning and advanced workshops in fiction, as well as modern and contemporary literature classes that focus heavily on form and technique. Her recent published work includes a collection of short stories, a novel, and non-fiction essays for magazines and anthologies.

  • Carol Ann Johnston

    Carol Ann Johnston
    Associate Professor of English, Martha Porter Sellers Chair of Rhetoric and the English Language (1990).
    East College Room 410
    (717) 245-1268 | johnston@dickinson.edu | Visit Web Site
    B.A., Baylor University, 1978; M.A., 1980; M.A., Harvard University, 1983; Ph.D., 1992.

    Her teaching interests include literature of the Early Modern period, poetry workshop, and Southern Women Writers. Her current research investigates subjectivity and agency in seventeenth-century English poetry. She has written a book on Eudora Welty and is working on a manuscript placing poet Thomas Traherne in the context of seventeenth-century visual traditions.