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Overview


Will Brewbaker is a third-year PhD student in English. His research focuses on 20th-c. Anglophone poetry, lyric theory, poetry & poetics, and theological poetics. His dissertation will explore how these different strands of inquiry converge in the writings of a cluster of 20th-c. poets.

Having received an MFA from the University of Michigan's Helen Zell Writers' Program, Will has published his own poetry in such journals as the Yale Review, Narrative, Gettysburg ReviewTriQuarterly ReviewImage, & Washington Square Review. He also reviews books of contemporary poetry regularly for both the Los Angeles Review of Books and On the Seawall.

He holds a BA in English and Political & Social Thought from the University of Virginia, from where he graduated with High Honors. Most recently, he received an MTS from Duke Divinity School, where he wrote a thesis on the pneumatology of Dante's Commedia.

Office Hours


Spring '25 Semester

Wednesday mornings from 10 a.m. – 12 p.m. (Perkins Café)

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Recent Publications


“This sea which utters me”: Reading W. S. Graham’s “The Nightfishing” in the Theological Wake of G. M. Hopkins’s “The Wreck of the Deutschland”

Journal Article Christianity & Literature · March 2024 Abstract: Despite the scant attention paid to his poetic oeuvre in U.S. academic circles, the Scottish poet W. S. Graham stands as one of the most theologically enigmatic poets of the mid-twentieth century. In this essay, I read his ... Full text Cite
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