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Derek Updegraff
College of Arts and Sciences
College of Arts and Sciences
Associate Professor of English
dupdegraff@andersonuniversity.edu
(864) 328-1818
- dupdegraff@andersonuniversity.edu
- (864) 328-1818
Academic Background
PhD, University of Missouri
MA, University of Missouri
MFA, California State University
BA, California State University
Teaching at AU
What year did you start teacing at AU?
2021
How would you describe your classes to someone who has never attended one?
In my creative writing classes, students share their writing in a small workshop environment. We dive into each work, pointing out the successes of the piece while also discussing how to strengthen plot, characterization, style, and other aspects that form dynamic writing.
Contact
dupdegraff@andersonuniversity.edu
Phone
(864) 328-1818
Fast Facts
In my creative writing classes, students share their writing in a small workshop environment. We dive into each work, pointing out the successes of the piece while also discussing how to strengthen plot, characterization, style, and other aspects that form dynamic writing.
I teach a wide range of creative writing courses, and I also have backgrounds in linguistics and early British literature.
Anderson has rigorous academics in a caring environment. The students are bright and hard-working, the campus community is incredibly supportive, and the English Department in particular is full of interesting folks doing exciting work.
The creative writing students here at Anderson take their craft seriously and they are a joy to teach.
Books:
Pup! et cetera (Stephen F. Austin University Press, 2020).
Paintings That Look Like Things (Stephen F. Austin University Press (2018).
The Butcher’s Tale and Other Stories (Stephen F. Austin University Press, 2016).
My short stories, poems, and translations have been published in:
Bayou Magazine, Big Muddy, The Carolina Quarterly, The Chiron Review, Christianity and Literature, The Classical Outlook, CutBank, Fiction International, Fourteen Hills, The Greensboro Review, Hobart, Jabberwock Review, The Maine Review, Metamorphoses, The Minnesota Review, Natural Bridge, The Normal School, North Dakota Quarterly, Notre Dame Review, Pembroke Magazine, Quarter After Eight, Raleigh Review, Saint Katherine Review, Sierra Nevada Review, The Southampton Review, Tahoma Literary Review, Tikkun, Windhover, Yemassee, and other places.
Articles and Encyclopedia Entries on Old English Literature:
“Ælfric, Alliterative Linking, and the Idea of a Vernacular Verse Line,” Pacific Coast Philology 53.1 (2018): 23-42.
Three entries on the Old English poems: “The Gifts of Men,” “The Fortunes of Men,” and “The Rhyming Poem,” in The Encyclopedia of Medieval Literature in Britain, ed. Siân Echard and Robert Rouse (Wiley-Blackwell, 2017).
“The Translatability of Manuscript Pages Containing Old English Verse (with an Illustrative Translation of The Exeter Book, Folios 98r-101r and 124r-124v),” Texas Studies in Literature and Language 56.1 (2014): 1-41.
“The Old English Verse Line in Translation: Steps toward a New Theory of Page Presentation,” Oral Tradition 26.2 (2011): 645-52.