Overview
Will Brewbaker is a fourth-year PhD candidate in English. His research focuses on 20th-c. American poetry, lyric theory, poetry & poetics, and theological poetics. His dissertation, "A Theological Lyric: Encountering God in Mid-Century American Poetry," explores how these different strands of inquiry converge in the writings of a cluster of post-45 U.S. poets.
Before moving to Durham, Will received an MFA in poetry from the University of Michigan's Helen Zell Writers' Program, as well as an MTS from Duke Divinity School. He has published his poetry in such journals as the Yale Review, Narrative, Gettysburg Review, TriQuarterly Review, Image, & Washington Square Review. He also reviews books of contemporary poetry regularly for both the Los Angeles Review of Books and Commonweal. His scholarly writing has appeared in Christianity & Literature.
Before moving to Durham, Will received an MFA in poetry from the University of Michigan's Helen Zell Writers' Program, as well as an MTS from Duke Divinity School. He has published his poetry in such journals as the Yale Review, Narrative, Gettysburg Review, TriQuarterly Review, Image, & Washington Square Review. He also reviews books of contemporary poetry regularly for both the Los Angeles Review of Books and Commonweal. His scholarly writing has appeared in Christianity & Literature.
Office Hours
Spring '25 Semester
Wednesday mornings from 10 a.m. – 12 p.m. (Perkins Café)
Wednesday mornings from 10 a.m. – 12 p.m. (Perkins Café)