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Sally Connolly is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Houston, specializing in modern and contemporary American, British, and Irish poetry. She currently serves as the Associate Dean of Student and Faculty Success for the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, having previously taught at Wake Forest University and held a Visiting Fellowship at Harvard University.
- Education: Ph.D. in Modern and Contemporary Poetry, M.A. in Poetry and Cultural Studies, B.A. in English Literature and Language, all from University College London
Her research focuses on elegiac traditions, transatlantic literary relations, and poetics. She has authored two critical monographs—Grief and Meter: Elegies for Poets After Auden (2016) and Ranches of Isolation: Transatlantic Poetry (2018)—and contributes to journals such as Poetry, Literary Imagination, and Yeats Annual. Her current work examines poetry responding to the AIDS epidemic.
Publications from 2007–2019 reveal a focus on elegy, transatlantic poetics, and intertextuality in 20th/21st century poetry, with subfields spanning confessional verse, ekphrastic techniques, and medical humanities. Awards include the Kennedy Scholarship (Harvard, 2004-06) and UH New Faculty Grant (2010).
- Scientific Awards:
- Outstanding Fellowship Mentor Award (2021)
- Martha Gano Houstoun Research Professor (2019)
- UH New Faculty Grant (2010)
- Wake Forest Archie Grant (2007)
- Kennedy Scholarship (2004-06)
- UK AHRC Scholarship (2003-06)
She teaches courses on disaster poetry, elegy, confessional verse, and prosody at both graduate and undergraduate levels. Affiliations include the Modern Languages Association, American Comparative Literature Association, and British Association of American Studies.
