Professor of English, Department Chair, Director of Creative Writing

Director of the Eudora Welty Writers’ Symposium

OFFICE: Painter Hall 103C
EMAIL: kadunkelberg@muw.edu
PHONE: 662-329-7169

About Dr. Dunkelberg

BA English/Creative Writing, Knox College
MA in Comparative Literature, University of Texas, Austin
PhD and MA in Comparative Literature, University of Texas, Austin

Areas of Specialization:

Creative Writing, Poetry, Translation, World Literature, Twentieth Century Poetry, Postcolonial Literature

Research Interests:

Poetry, creative writing pedagogy, Twentieth Century Dutch literature, translation

Selected Publications:  

Books:
Tree Fall with Birdsong, poems, 2025
A Writer’s Craft: Multi-genre Creative Writing, textbook, 2017
Barrier Island Suite, poems, 2016
Time Capsules, poems, 2009
Landscapes and Architectures, poems, 2001
Hercules, Richelieu, and Nostradamus, translations, 2000
Outside the Lines: New Dutch and Flemish Writing, editor and translator, The Literary Review 40.3 (1997)

Anthologies:
“The intergalactic traveler tells it like it is” and “The intergalactic traveler in springtime.” Attached to the Living World: A New Ecopoetry Anthology, Ed. Ann Fisher-Wirth and Laura-Gray Street. Trinity University Press, 2025, 65-66.
“Beso con Lengua,” “Birdsong,” “Cathedral,” “Continental Divide,” “Patterns.” Southern Voices: Fifty Contemporary Poets. Ed. Tom Mack and Andrew Geyer. Lamar University Literary Press. 2024, 119-125.
“Natchez.” Down to the Dark River: Contemporary Poems about the Mississippi River. Ed. Philip C. Kolin and Jack B Bedell. Louisiana Literature Press. 2015, 41.
“Ishtar,” “Glass Bottles,” “Chivaree,” and “Farm on a Hill” in The Southern Poetry Anthology Volume II: Mississippi. Ed. Stephen Gardner and William Wright. Texas Review Press. 2010: 60-64.