Rate My Professor Darcie Dennigan

Darcie Dennigan serves as Associate Professor in Residence in the Department of English at the University of Connecticut, a position she has held since 2010, following her initial appointment as Assistant Professor in Residence. Her academic background includes an M.F.A. in Poetry from the University of Michigan in 2002 and a B.A. in English from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 1998, graduating Phi Beta Kappa. In the field of Literature, Dennigan specializes in poetry, experimental fiction, writing for performance, nature writing, creative literary criticism, and absurdist literary traditions. Prior to her current role, she taught as an adjunct professor at Rhode Island School of Design, University of Rhode Island, and Roger Williams University, served as a visiting lecturer at College of the Holy Cross, and instructed in Brown University's Continuing Studies program from 2009 to 2012. She also worked as a freelance writer and in advancement roles at Brown University from 2008 to 2018 and co-founded Frequency Writers, a nonprofit literary community, directing it from 2011 to 2016.

Dennigan is the author of several acclaimed books, including the novel Slater Orchard: an etymology (University of Alabama Press, FC2, 2019), The Parking Lot, and other feral scenarios (Forklift Books, 2018), the poetry/drama collections Palace of Subatomic Bliss (Canarium Books, 2016) and Madame X (Canarium Books, 2012), and Corinna A-Maying the Apocalypse (Fordham University Press, 2008), which won the Poets Out Loud prize judged by Alice Fulton. Her chapbooks include Dandelion Farm, a drama in text and image with artist Carl Dimitri (Smoking Glue Gun Press, 2015) and Dept. of Ephebic Dreamery (Forklift Ohio, 2012). She has published literary criticism and hybrid essays in venues such as Kenyon Review, Colorado Review, Boston Review, The Rumpus, and Berfrois, and her poems appear in anthologies like Best American Experimental Writing 2015 and The New Census. Dennigan's honors include the Howard Foundation Fellowship in Playwriting from Brown University (2020), Anna Rabinowitz Award from Poetry Society of America (2019), Rhode Island State Council of the Arts Fiction Fellowship (2019) and Merit Fellowships in Fiction (2018) and Poetry (2011), Cecil Hemley Award (2011), Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference Stanley P. Young Fellowship (2008), and Discovery/The Nation Award (2007). Her innovative works contribute significantly to contemporary experimental poetry and performance writing.