Department of English

Dr. Brenda Hammack
Associate Professor

Office:  Butler Building 131
Phone: (910) 672-1452
Email:   bhammack@uncfsu.edu

Education

Ph.D. in Nineteenth-Century British Literature, University of North Carolina at Greenboro, 2000.

M.A. in Creative Writing,  Hollins College, 1992.

B.A. in English, Hollins College, 1991.

Selected Publications

Humbug: A Neo-Victorian Fantasy in Verse. Chicago: Misty Publications, Summer 2013. Forthcoming.

"Leonora in the House of Nin," "In the Waiting Room with Anaïs, 1942," "Catwoman: Leonor Fini," and "Red Vision."  The Medulla Review, Vol. 4, Issue 1 (2012) http://themedullareview.com/Brenda_Hammock.html

"Mouse Offers Advice as Fish Adapts" and "Miss Nasturtium Had Run Out of Halibut." Dr. Hurley's Snake-Oil Cure (2011) http://snakeoilcure.wordpress.com/tag/kaser/

"The Little Hermit Sphinx." A capella Zoo, Issue 6 (2011) http://www.acappellazoo.com/littlehermitsphinx

Poems Based on the Life of Frida Kahlo:  "Accident"; "Henry Ford Hospital, 1932"; "What the Water Gives"; "The Love Embrace of the Universe, the Earth (Mexico), Diego, Me, and Señor Xolotl." Caveat Lector, Vol. 21, No. 2 (2010) http://caveat-lector.org/2102/poetry/bhammack.html

"For Crying-Out Frogs," "Crescentia, Alone, Then," and "Ornithology." Segue 9 (Fall 2010) http://www.mid.muohio.edu/segue/9/issuuhammack.htm

"Florence Marryat's Female Vampire and the Scientizing of Hybridity." Victorian Hybridities: Cultural Anxiety and Formal Innovation. Ed. U.C. Knoepflmacher and Logan D. Browning, Eds.  Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010.

"In Which a Taste for Tongue Is Eloquently Debated." A capella Zoo, Issue 3 (2009)http://www.acappellazoo.com/fall09216

"The Dead Queens of Cockerham." Arsenic Lobster, Issue 18 (Winter 2008)http://arseniclobster.magere.com/archive/issueeighteen/181001.html

"Mutabilities," including "Mimesis," "Discovery of the Mutant Geologist," "Unexpected Visit," "The Useless Science or the Alchemist," "Creation of the Birds." Mudlark, No. 64 (2006) http://mudlark.webdelsol.com/posters/hammack.html

Awards, Honors, and Service

Managing Editor, Glint Literary Journal.

Teaching Artist and Advisory Board Member, Rooster Moans Poetry Cooperative, with workshops on "Meta-Poetry," "Magical Realist Poetry," and  "The True Fairy Tale Poem."
 
Three Nominations for the Pushcart Prize.