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Douglas Kearney
English
310 Pillsbury Hall
310 Pillsbury Dr. S.E.
Minneapolis,
MN
55455
Collegiate Affiliation
Educational Background & Specialties
Educational Background
- M.F.A.: Writing, California Institute of the Arts, 2004
- B.A.: English, Howard University, 1996
Specialties
- creative writing (poetry, nonfiction, libretto)
- black aesthetics, poetics, and literature
- experimental writing
- writing for performance
- popular/cultural criticism
- hip hop studies
- poetics and prosody
Publications
Awards