Dr. Emily M Goldsmith
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PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS
LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY
Instructor in English, full time faculty member, Fall 2025-Present
LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY
Instructor in English, full time faculty member, Fall 2025-Present
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EDUCATION
2021-2025 University of Southern Mississippi [Hattiesburg MS] Ph.D. in English: Creative Writing, Poetry Victorian Gothic, Southern Gothic, Louisiana Literature, Creole Studies, Contemporary Poetry, Caribbean Literature, LGBTQ+, Afro-Diasporic Literature, Afro-Formalism 2019-2021 University of Kentucky [Lexington KY] Master of Fine Arts in English: Creative Writing, Poetry Graduate Certificate in College Teaching and Learning 2013-2016 Louisiana State University [Baton Rouge LA] Bachelor of Arts in English: Creative Writing, Poetry |
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HONORS AND AWARDS
Jan. 2025 Finalist for Spoon River Poetry Review's Chapbook Prize for Alligator is a Fish. Apr. 2024 Teaching Assistant of the Year Award, USM. Apr. 2024 Office of the Provost Graduate Student Innovation Award for Outstanding Research, USM. Apr. 2024 Stanley Hauer Excellence in Teaching Award, USM. Apr. 2024 James Sims Scholarship Endowment for Best English Graduate Student Paper, USM. Mar. 2024 The Chris Vanden Bossche Graduate Student Travel Award, Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Conference. Sep. 2023 Finalist for DIAGRAM Chapbook Prize for Alligator is a Fish. Sep. 2023 Drake Institute for Teaching and Learning Teaching Endorsement: Digital Media and Composition from Ohio State University. |
Aug. 2023
Finalist for Two Sylvia’s Press Chapbook Prize for Alligator is a Fish. Summer 2023 Derven Scholar, The Historic New Orleans Collection. May 2023 English Graduate Student Travel Award, University of Southern Mississippi. Apr. 2023 James Sims Literature Scholarship Endowment for Best English Graduate Student Paper, University of Southern Mississippi. Apr. 2023 College of Arts and Sciences Graduate Student Travel Award, University of Southern Mississippi. Apr. 2023 Howard Wilson and Helen V. Bahr Scholarship Endowment, University of Southern Mississippi. Apr. 2023 The Ben Mounger Rawls Award Endowment for Outstanding Creative Writing Student, University of Southern Mississippi. Apr. 2023 Partners for the Arts Emerging Artist Award, University of Southern Mississippi. Mar. 2023 Graduate Student Travel Bursary, North American Society for the Study of Romanticism. May 2021 Patricia and William Stacey Endowed Fellowship for Excellence in Teaching. Jan. 2021 Factory Hollow Press Scholarship, Virtual Juniper Institute with Dara Wier. June 2020 Pushcart Prize Nominee, Fine Print Press. |
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PUBLICATIONS ESSAYS “Circum-Caribbean Creolized Storytelling: Louisiana Creole Women Writers and Caribbean Women Writers of the 20th and 21st Century.” Revised and Resubmitted. ESSAYS IN PROGRESS "'You and others shall yet be mine': Reading Queerness and Gender-Variance in Bram Stoker’s Novel." Submitted Feb. 2025. BOOKS Under Consideration Roof to Rubble (poetry collection) Under Consideration Alligator is a Fish (chapbook) Under Consideration LANGUAGE FOR PELICANS (chapbook) POETRY, NON-FICTION, AND CHAPBOOK PUBLICATIONS “WHAT IS THE SOUTH TO AN OUTSIDER.” Testament: A Rural Anthology, Backwoods Literary Press, Dec 2025. “DOUBLE HEADSTONE CONTRAPUNTAL.” Folklore Review, Oct. 2025. “Two Deaths / Deux Mortalités.” Book of Jobs Anthology, ONE ART, Sept 2025. “YOU NEVER LISTEN TO LOUISIANA.” Radical Catalyst Journal, July 2025. "PRE-GHOST JACQUELINE." Midway Journal, forthcoming July 2025. "THE FEU FOLLET." Midway Journal, forthcoming July 2025. "TEACHING AT THE END," Porcupine Literary, forthcoming July 2025. "REACH FOR BANANA LEAVES." Pithead Chapel, forthcoming June 2025. "ALBERT J SCHRIBER, B 1923." Pithead Chapel, forthcoming June 2025. "REALLY THIS IS A POEM ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE." Moist Poetry Journal, forthcoming June 2025. "The Archbishop never had enough holy water," ZAUM Magazine, forthcoming Mar. 2025. "FAMILY POEM," ZAUM Magazine, forthcoming Mar. 2025. “NO GOD, NO MOON,” a video poem. Genrepunk Magazine, forthcoming Mar. 2025. “Every time I speak, my voice rings out for all of us.” LaCréole Journal, Vol. 17, Nov. 2024. “Longing Poem.” Eucalyptus Lit, Sept. 2024. “Three-Toed Sloth.” Bestiary Zine, Jan. 2024. “Give Me Silence.” Trash Wonderland, Issue 2, June 2023. “All sides of the coin,” and “The Reckoning of Time." Spell Jar Press, June 2023. “Pomona, Pomona, Persephone.” Fifth Wheel Press Anthology, Jan 2023. “This Little Light of Mine.” Bullsh*t Mag, Oct 2022. “The Pope said Alligator is a Fish.” The Penn Review, June 2022. “Wunderkammern.” Warning Lines, May 2022. |
“Pomona, Pomona, Persephone.” Fifth Wheel Press, Jan 2022.
“SEW YOUR DEATH INTO MY BODY.” Hecate Mag, Nov 2021. “Re-enacting the Notebook Sex Scene for an Audience of Ghost(s).” Pile Press, Oct 2021. “QUEER POEM” and “CLITORIS POEM.” Giving Room Mag, May 2021. “An Envie,” and “Post-break up with God.” Windows Facing Windows Review, Feb 2021. “I can’t tell you every secret.” Versification, Jan 2021. “Restoring the Balance.” Variety Pack, Dec 2020. “Valhalla.” Vagabond City Lit, 14 Sep 2020. “Arkansas Roaming Wide.” Fine Print Press, Feb 2020, Issue 8. “The Waters: Lache Pas La Patate.” Entropy Mag, Feb 2020. “TO FRUITION,” UNWANTED PATTERNS,” and “Untitled.” Witch Craft Mag, Mar 2019, issue 5, pp. 58-60. |
TEACHING
Louisiana State University Fall 2025
University of Southern Mississippi Spring 2025
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Spring 2023
University of Kentucky Spring 2021
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SERVICE AND ENGAGEMENT
English Graduate Student Conference, U of Southern Mississippi (USM), 2023-Present
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Community Workshop Leader, MS Book Fest, Aug. 2023
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