Brian Brodeur

Assistant Professor of English
Whitewater Hall 277
bbrodeur@iue.edu

Education

• PhD in English and Creative Writing, University of Cincinnati, 2015
• MFA in Creative Writing (Poetry), George Mason University, 2005
• BA in English, Salem State University, 2001

Recent Publications

Books

• Every Hour Is Late: Poems, Measure Press, Evansville, IN (2019)
• Natural Causes, winner of 2011 Autumn House Press Poetry Prize, Autumn House Press, Pittsburgh, PA (2012)
• Other Latitudes, winner of 2007 Akron Poetry Prize, University of Akron Press, Akron, OH (2008)

Poetry Chapbooks

• Local Fauna, co-winner of 2013 Wick Poetry Center Chapbook Competition, Kent State University Press, Kent, OH (2015)
• So the Night Cannot Go on Without Us, winner of 2006 White Eagle Coffee Store Press Poetry Chapbook Prize, WECS Press, Fox River Grove, IL (2007)

Current Teaching and Research Interests

• Teaching: Creative Writing, Poetry and Poetics, American Literature, Literary Theory, First-Year Writing
• Research: Forms and Genres of Poetry, Lyric Theory, Digital Humanities, Literary Citizenship

Selected Recent Fellowships and Awards

• 2018, Summer Faculty Fellowship
• 2016, Summer Faculty Fellowship
• 2011-2015, George Elliston Fellowship in Poetry, University of Cincinnati
• 2014, Academy of American Poets Prize
• 2013, Wick Poetry Chapbook Competition, Kent State University Press
• 2013, Walter E. Dakin Fellowship in Poetry, Sewanee Writers’ Conference
• 2012, River Styx International Poetry Competition (third place)
• 2012, Academy of American Poetry Prize
• 2011, Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Prize
• 2011, Autumn House Press Poetry Contest
• 2011, Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Prize