Joyelle McSweeney

Joyelle McSweeney is a Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame, specializing in creative writing, poetry, and translation. She holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, an M.Phil. from the University of Oxford, and a B.A. from Harvard University. Her work spans poetry, prose, drama, and critical essays, emphasizing ecopoetics, decadence, and genre hybridization.

Research focuses on intersections of ecology, media, and occult symbolism, with key works like The Necropastoral: Poetry, Media, Occults (2015) proposing a decadent approach to ecological writing. Awards include a 2022 Guggenheim Fellowship and the Shelley Memorial Prize for Toxicon and Arachne (2020). She co-founded Action Books press, amplifying global poetry and translation.

• Education: MFA (2001, Iowa), M.Phil (1999, Oxford), B.A. (1997, Harvard)
• Awards: Guggenheim Fellowship, Arts & Letters Award, Shelley Memorial Prize
• Key publications include Dead Youth, Salamandrine, and Death Styles

Teaching excellence recognized by the Rev. Edmund P. Joyce C.S.C. Award. Her creative output combines experimental form with thematic explorations of decay, prophecy, and ecological crisis.