Faculty and Staff
Ashley E. Hudson
Lecturer and Assistant Director, Graduate Liberal Studies Program
Voice: 910.962.2427
FAX: 910.962.3542
E-mail: hudsona AT uncw DOT edu
Ashley Elizabeth Hudson is from Athens, Alabama. She was awarded the Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art poetry prize. Her poems appear in Six Little Things, the Southeast Review, and The Fairy Tale Review among others.
Degrees:
- M.F.A. in Creative Writing, University of North Carolina Wilmington
- B.A in Journalism., University of Alabama
Major Publications:
- “Elegy for a Child Trapped Underground,” Fairy Tale Review, The Grey Issue, March 2012
- “Maybe Narcissus,” “The Season’s First Complaint,” Anomalous, Issue 1.1, March 2011
- “Romanticism,” Verse Daily featured poem, January 28, 2011
- “Romanticism,” Southeast Review, Florida State University, Issue 28.2, 2010
- “Yodel,” Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art, Columbia University, Issue 45, 2008
- “Caramel is Normal,” Six Little Things, Six Bricks Press, Issue 9, Winter 2008
Courses Taught:
- GLS 592 Easy Under the Apple Boughs: The Natural World in Poetry
- GLS 592 There is an Otherness Inside Us: An Exploration of Contemporary Southern Poetry
- GLS 592 Lying Our Way to the Truth: The Personal Narrative in Poetry
- GLS 592 Grave Robbing for a Wedding Gown: Explorations in the Contemporary Fairy Tale
- GLS 502 Contemporary Issues in Liberal Studies
- GLS 592 Writing With Style
Academic Interests:
In addition to contemporary literature, Ashley Hudson’s interests include studies in the history of the literary fairy tale, folklore and the oral tradition, autobiographical poetry, ecopoetics, Southern poetry, and new journalism. She is currently working on a lyric essay about historical literary fairy tale mothers and daughters and themes of abandonment in contemporary cultural situations.
Last Update: August 10, 2012
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