Assistant Professor
Erin C. Singer is an Assistant Professor of American Literature at Louisiana Tech University. Her research centers on U.S. and Latin American poetry of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She earned her PhD from the University of Houston. You can read her work in Fugue, The Robert Frost Review, and Advances in the History of Rhetoric. She is finishing up a book project about the hemispheric American epic poem after Walt Whitman.
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About Erin Singer
Erin C. Singer is an Assistant Professor of American Literature at Louisiana Tech University. Her research centers on U.S. and Latin American poetry of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She earned her PhD from the University of Houston. You can read her work in Fugue, The Robert Frost Review, and Advances in the History of Rhetoric. She is finishing up a book project about the hemispheric American epic poem after Walt Whitman.
| Present | Assistant Professor, Louisiana Tech University ‐ School of Literature and Language | |
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Disciplines
Research Interests
Honors and Awards
- Visiting Summer Faculty Research Fellowship, Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford, 2018
- Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford, 2017–18 (declined)
- John and Rebecca Moores Teaching Excellence Award, University of Houston, 2016
- Wyman H. Herendeen Award for Excellence in Scholarly Publication, Dept. of English, University of Houston, 2016
- Future Faculty Fellowship, jointly awarded by the Center for Integration of Research, Teaching, and Learning (CIRTL), the National Science Foundation (NSF), and The Graduate School, University of Houston, 2016–17
- Graduate Fellowship in Writing Center Pedagogy and Program Development, Dept. of English and Writing Center, University of Houston, 2015–17
- Graduate Fellowship, Dept. of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, University of Houston, 2012– 13 and 2013–14
- Presidential Fellowship, University of Houston, 2012–14
- Balch Prize for Best Master’s Thesis, Dept. of English, University of Virginia, 2012
Courses
- Graduate course in Queer Poetics
- Graduate course in American Modernist Poetry
- Senior seminar in American Literature to 1865
- Senior seminar in American Poetry
- Introduction to American Literature
- First Year Writing Part I
| 2017 | Graduate Certificate, University of Houston ‐ Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies | |
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| 2017 | Ph.D., University of Houston ‐ English and American Literature | |
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| 2011 | M.A., University of Virginia ‐ English | |
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| 2007 | B.A., Trinity University ‐ English | |
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Contact Information
Phone: 318.257.3939
Fax: 318.257.4376
Email: esinger@latech.edu
Office: GTM 206