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Will Brewbaker, Graduate Student
 Email Address: william.brewbaker@duke.edu
Web Page: https://wsbrewbaker.weebly.com
Teaching (Spring 2026):
- English 220s.01, Intro to the writing of poetry
Synopsis
- Social sciences 109, M 03:05 PM-05:35 PM
Recent Publications
- Brewbaker, W, “You must be taught to love me”: On Louise Glück’s Choral Lyric,
Christianity & Literature, vol. 74 no. 1
(March, 2025),
pp. 62-73, Project MUSE [doi] [abs].
- Brewbaker, W, “This sea which utters me”: Reading W. S. Graham’s “The Nightfishing” in the Theological Wake of G. M. Hopkins’s “The Wreck of the Deutschland”,
Christianity & Literature, vol. 73 no. 1
(March, 2024),
pp. 37-58, Project MUSE [doi] [abs].
Highlight:
Will Brewbaker is a fourth-year PhD candidate in English. His research focuses on 20th-c. American poetry, lyric theory, poetry & poetics, and theological poetics. His dissertation, "A Theological Lyric: Encountering God in Mid-Century American Poetry," explores how these different strands of inquiry converge in the writings of a cluster of post-45 U.S. poets.
Before moving to Durham, Will received an MFA in poetry from the University of Michigan's Helen Zell Writers' Program, as well as an MTS from Duke Divinity School. He has published his poetry in such journals as the Yale Review, Narrative, Gettysburg Review, TriQuarterly Review, Image, & Washington Square Review. He also reviews books of contemporary poetry regularly for both the Los Angeles Review of Books and Commonweal. His scholarly writing has appeared in Christianity & Literature.
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