Sally Connolly, Ph.D.

Associate Dean for Student and Faculty Success
Associate Professor of Contemporary Poetry,  Department of English
713.743.2945
402 Agnes Arnold Hall
sconnoll@central.uh.edu  

Sally Connolly is associate professor of contemporary poetry and an authority on American, British and Irish verse from the modern period to the present day. Connolly previously taught at Wake Forest University and was a visiting fellow at Harvard University. Her main areas of research and teaching include the elegiac tradition, epic, confessional and post-confessional verse, poetic influence / inheritance, queer poetics, prosody and scansion, medical humanities, neoformalist criticism, poetic responses to disaster, epigraphs and allusions, and transatlantic literary relations.

Connolly received her Ph.D. in modern and contemporary poetry from University College London.

A native of St. Albans in the United Kingdom, she has lived in Houston since 2008.