Assistant Professor
- Phone: 713 743 2945
- Email: sconnoll@central.uh.edu
- Office: 221D Roy Cullen Building
Sally Connolly is Assistant Professor of Contemporary Poetry. She specializes in American, British and Irish verse from the Modern period to the present day. Dr Connolly’s main area of research is the elegiac tradition, and particularly elegies for poets. She is currently working on a book length manuscript entitled “A Genelaogy of Poetry: Elegies for poets since 1939”. Her research interests also include poetic responses to disaster; transatlantic literary relations; the nature of poetic influence; confessional verse; and epigraphs and allusion.
Education
- BA University College London, English Literature and Language
- MA University College London, Poetry and Cultural Studies
- PhD University College London, Modern and Contemporary Poetry
Honors and Awards
- Archie Grant for Research Excellence (2007)
- Kennedy Scholarship (2004-2006)
- Arts and Humanities Research Council Scholarship (2003-2006)
Teaching
- 3396: Poetic Form
- 3396: Modern and Contemporary Verse (Spring 2009)
- 7396: Confessional Poetry (Spring 2009)
Publications
- “‘Breaking Bread with the Dead’: W. H. Auden, Seamus Heaney and Yeats’s legacy.” Yeats Annual 17 (Palgrave Macmillan, Spring 2008): 197-226
- “Comment.” Poetry (Chicago), December 2002: 160-169