Professional Writing

Awards and Recognition
The June/July "Bad" issue of The South magazine begged the expertise of professional writing professor James Lough for advice on the atypical genre of eulogy writing -- deemed "Bad Situation No. 15." Find it in print in TSM page 48 or read the extra-long version online.
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Professional Writing program

Faculty



Adam Davies
Savannah
B.A., Kenyon College; M.F.A., Syracuse University.
James Lough

James Lough
Savannah
B.A., University of Colorado; M.A., San Francisco State University; Ph.D., University of Denver.
James Lough, Ph.D., teaches nonfiction writing at SCAD. His book, “Sites of Insight,” was published by the University Press of Colorado, and won the Publications Prize from the Colorado Endowment for the Humanities. He also won the Frank Waters Southwestern Writing Award for short fiction, and he has published more than 60 articles, short stories and book reviews. He has served as an editor with several literary journals, including Divide, The Denver Quarterly and Bastard Review.

Catherine Ramsdell

Catherine Ramsdell
Savannah
B.B.A., Adrian College; M.A., DePaul University; Ph.D., Auburn University.
Emily Williams

Emily Allen Williams
Atlanta
B.A., Saint Paul's College; M.A., Virginia Commonwealth University; D.A., Clark Atlanta University.
Emily Allen Williams is a professor of liberal arts at SCAD-Atlanta. She is a recognized Caribbean literary critic and the author of five books. She also has published in major literary journals such as the African American Review, The Caribbean Writer, the CLA Journal, Wasifiri and Canadian Literature Quarterly, among others. She is listed in several biographical publications, including Contemporary Authors and the Directory of American Scholars, and is a Fulbright scholar. Williams' next book will be the biography of the internationally acclaimed Caribbean poet, cultural critic and historian Kamau Brathwaite.

Publications:
  • "Beyond the Canebrakes: West Indian Women Writers in Canada" (Africa World Press, forthcoming).
  • "Changing Currents: Transnational Caribbean and Literary Criticism" (Africa World Press, 2006).
  • "The Critical Response to Kamau Brathwaite" (Praeger Publishers, 2004).
  • "Anglophone Caribbean Poetry, 1970-2001: An Annotated Bibliography" (Greenwood Press, 2002).
  • "Poetic Negotiation of Identity: The Works of Brathwaite, Harris, Senior, and Dabydeen" (Edwin Mellen Press, 1999).
Memberships:
  • The Fulbright Association
Courses:
  • Today's Classics: 1945 - Present
  • Business and Professional Writing
  • Composition and Literature
  • Composition
  • Literature by Women

 
 
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